Cruwys was a member of the successful England team that beat Australia at Edgbaston to win the first Women's World Cup in July 1973.
[5] Cruwys topped the England team's batting averages for all three games played in Australia with 70.5.
[8] In 1974, she joined the West Midlands women's team,[9] where she and Rachael Heyhoe Flint formed "the main strength" of the side playing against Australia in Wolverhampton in 1976.
"[11] At a charity match in 1972 between a Lord's Taverners men's team and a women's team led by Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Cruwys "won frequent applause and took two catches in the deep, of which any man would have been proud,"[12] and in the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup, "the fielding of both teams was a joy to watch and especially for England, Jill Cruwys' throwing in from the deep, which would put many county players to shame.
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