We spent last night celebrating our victory. Drinks in the hotel bar with the management before heading out to a local pub for a few more drinks and a dance. Members of the other teams were out as well and there was a great spirit among all the players. I called it a day at about 2am and walked back to the hotel to call friends and family; completely exhausted but elated, writes Claire Taylor in the Telegraph.

England's World Cup winning cricketers follow in the footsteps of Myrtle Maclagan, pioneer of the women's game, writes Frank Keating in the Guardian.

England's 22-year old luminary on that first unbeaten Australian adventure was, happily, to become a friend and neighbour of mine in the last couple of decades of her life. Myrtle Maclagan was both opening bat and demon spin bowler. In the first Test at Brisbane, she scored 72 and took seven for 10. In the second at Sydney she made 119, the first Test century by a woman. England's men had lost their Ashes that summer of 1934, so Myrtle's feats had the Morning Post crowing back home

At the risk of creating the impression that I lead an empty and idle life, I admit that I did watch Sky's highlights of the England women's victory over New Zealand. I soon realised why the vast North Sydney Oval was almost deserted. The standard seemed little higher than that of a good club cricket game, of the sort which is played in villages up and down the country every weekend in summer; but no one except for friends and families would actually think of going along to watch such matches – let alone pay to get through a turnstile, writes Dominic Lawson in the Independent.

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