Career
Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, the former England captain, said of her work as an administrator, "Netta was an action girl. We had very few people then, and she galvanised activity, partly just by having a great personality and a sense of humour."
"Foreign a north London Jew, playing cricket for England and being one of the game’s most important administrators is about as well-trodden a career path as prime minister or bacon-buttie salesman," wrote Rob Steen shortly after her death aged 94 in 2006. She played her cricket mostly for Gunnersbury and Middlesex, as a batsman and slip fielder.
Her one Test came on England"s tour of Australia in 1948-1949.
She was the team"s manager, and had to play in the match because of injuries to other players. She made a "pair". She was secretary of the Women"s Cricket Association in 1945 and from 1948 to 1958.
She was also membership secretary and vice-chairman of the Cricket Society. She edited the magazine Women"s Cricket, reported on women"s cricket for Wisden for more than thirty years, and wrote a regular column for The Cricketer.
With Heyhoe-Flint as co-author, she wrote a history of the women"s game.
In 1999 she was one of the first ten women to be awarded honorary membership of Master Control Console.
