Margaret Joyce Inness (; 4 November 1931 – 5 October 2012) was a New Zealand

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er who played as a right-arm

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bowler. She appeared in three

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for

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between 1954 and 1957. Her first and last Test matches, three years apart, were against England. She played domestic cricket for

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and

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