 The founding mother of women's cricket in Australia was the young Tasmanian, Lily Poulett-Harris, who captained the Oyster Cove team in the league she created in 1894.Lily's obituary, from her death a few years later in 1897, states that her team was almost certainly the first to be formed in the colonies .Following this, the Victoria Women's Cricket Association was founded in 1905 and the Australian Women's Cricket Association in 1931.