1 hour 24 minutes 30 seconds

Norma Izard, former England Women's Manager, interviewed by Charlotte Goodhew. The recording consists of 1 track. [0:00-0:57] Introduction by Goodhew with brief biography of Izard, [0:59-3:49], Izard talks about attending a dinner at Lord's to mark 20 years of women membership at MCC and establishing a women's MCC team, [3:50-4:23] Izard talks about catching up with old players at the women's dinner and praises Clare Connor, [4:24-5:11] Goodhew and Izard find the year the women's ashes started in 1998, [5:12-7:30] Izard talks about Australia wanting to start the women's ashes and the creation of the wooden cricket ball ashes trophy, [7:31-8:15] Izard talks about a photograph of the ashes burning ceremony, [8:16-9:45] Izard talks about staying in touch with players from first women's ashes series and seeing people at the 2017 Women's World Cup Final, [9:46-12:40] Izard talks about the 2017 Women's World Cup Final and defends the lack of male members in the pavilion. [12:41-17:32] Izard talks about the 1993 Women's World Cup Final at Lord's, [17:33-18:47] Izard talks about logistics of women players in the pavilion, [18:48-20:29] Izard talks about role as manager in organising sponsorship, clothing and preparing players for training, [20:30-20:58] Izard talks about the Women’s Cricket Association being an amateur organisation and needing to merge with ECB to achieve funding, [20:59-22:24] Izard talks about retiring after the 1993 World Cup Final, Ruth Prideaux and being amateur players, [22:25-25:06] Izard talks about how players managed being amateurs and the balance with professional jobs, [25:07-26:44] Izard talks about organising school cricket as a teacher, [26:55-30:41] Izard talks about playing for Kent, going to Dartford College and failing to play for England. [30:42-33:37] Izard talks about becoming a Kent selector and going back to play a match at Dartford College, [33:38-38:21] Izard talks about becoming England youth coach, a national selector and being selected to manage the England Women's Team to Australia in 1984, [38:22-46:47] Izard goes through a scrapbook on the 1984-1985 tour to Australia, [46:48-48:33] Izard talks about appearing on television during the 1984-1985 tour of Australia and booking flight tickets through her husband, [48:34-50:30] Izard talks about one player wanting to wear a British Airways sweater on a Qantas flight and the flight to Australia, [50:31-53:25] Izard talks about organising all aspects of the tour and befriending Australian players, [53:26-55:55] Izard goes through a scrapbook of the 1987 Australian women's tour of England. [55:56-58:17] Izard talks about the 1984-1985 tour of Australia being her most memorable tour, [58:18-1:01:35] Izard goes through a scrapbook on the 1993 World Cup Final, [1:01:36-1:09:20] Izard goes through items she has brought with her including photographs and discusses clothing and potential items to donate to the MCC, [1:09:21-1:19:40] Izard talks about the Women’s Cricket Archive, continues to go through photographs, hands over a copy of her CV and agrees on what Goodhew can keep and copy, [1:19:41-1:24:30] Goodhew talks about the MCC's women's cricket exhibition and Izard on women cricketers being nominated MCC members and women membership.

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