Ruth Evelyn Martin (; 3 October 1913 – 11 September 2004) was a New Zealand

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er who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm

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bowler. She played one Test match for

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, their first, in 1935. She played domestic cricket for

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. Symons captained Canterbury, and she was selected to captain New Zealand in their first women's Test match, against

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in February 1935, which England won. In Canterbury's victory over

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in March 1937 she took 6 for 6 and 3 for 23. She married Lester Martin at St Mark's Church, near her home in

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, in April 1935. She died in Christchurch in 2004.

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