Loretta Irene Bayliss (1939 – 30 June 1966) was a New Zealand

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er who played as a left-arm

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bowler. She only appeared in a single Test match for

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, in 1961. Playing against

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, she took 5/28 in the final innings of the match to become the 6th player to take a

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on their Women's Test debut. She played domestic cricket for

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