Margaret Hughes

Margaret Patricia Hughes (1 October 1919 – 30 January 2005) was an English sportswriter.

Life and career Margaret Hughes was brought up in Kent, one of four children of Dorothy Maude and Arthur Hughes. She worked for the advertising department of The Star, taking the job in order "to see the cricket scores before the general public".

Her first book, All on a Summer's Day (1953), was described by Cardus in his foreword to the book as "the first book on first-class cricket not written by a man".

Following All on a Summer's Day, Hughes covered the Ashes series of 1954–55 for the Sydney Daily Telegraph, the only woman to cover an Ashes series for a daily newspaper until Chloe Saltau did so in 2005 for The Age.