{{short description|Australian cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Ruby Monaghan | country = Australia | female = yes | image = Ruby Monaghan and Hazel Pritchard.jpg | caption = Monaghan (left) and Hazel Pritchard walking out to bat in the second women's Test match. | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | family = | international = true | testdebutdate = 28 December | testdebutyear = 1934 | testdebutagainst = England | lasttestdate = 4 January | lasttestyear = 1935 | lasttestagainst = England | testcap = 3 | club1 = | year1 = | clubnumber1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = WTest | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 29 | bat avg1 = 7.25 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 12 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 0/– | date = 30 October | year = 2014 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/53545.html Cricinfo }} '''Ruby Agnes (Monaghan) Lee''' (24 May 1916 – 10 June 2012) was one of the earliest women cricketers. An Australian born in Coniston, New South Wales, Monaghan was a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler, and she opened the batting to face the first deliveries of the first ever Women's Test match, the Australia Women versus England Women Test at Brisbane on 28 December 1934.<ref name="cricpro">{{cite web | url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/53545.html | title=Player Profile: Ruby Monaghan | publisher=ESPN CricInfo | accessdate=16 November 2013}}</ref> She had earned selection after strong showings at a warm-up game against the same touring England side in the weeks prior to the Test. Upon the merging of men's and women's cricket administrations in 2003, she was awarded the third Women's Test cap.<ref name="obit">{{cite web | url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/568349.html | title=Ruby Monaghan, Australia's first opener, dies aged 96 | publisher=ESPN CricInfo | date=14 June 2012 | accessdate=16 November 2013}}</ref> She came to the sport after playing vigaro, and resumed playing softball and tennis after ending her time with cricket. She died in Wollongong.<ref name="cricpro" />
==Personal life== Monaghan married William Lee on 30 March 1940.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142196815 |title=Mr. Wm LEE — Miss RUBY MONAGHAN |newspaper=South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus |volume=XXXXI |issue=16 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 April 1940 |accessdate=21 October 2017 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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