Myrtle Baylis was a pioneer in women's sport, representing both Australia in what was known as women's basketball, which would later become known as netball in 1970, and cricket in the same year. A notable goal attack for Victoria between 1937–1954, Baylis made her international netball debut in August 1948 – just five months after making her Australian cricket debut. Both came against New Zealand. Selected in the Australian Netball Team between 1946–49; 1952–54, including as captain in 1953, Baylis played in the only three international Tests between 1939–1955. The now 92-year-old was a member of Australia's first ever Australian international netball tour in 1948 and contested the second ever international trans-Tasman Test match on debut in Dunedin. Baylis was named in Netball Victoria's ‘Team of the Century’ in 2000 followed by her induction in Netball's ‘Legends of the Game’ a year later.