- 1930s & 40s cricket right-arm medium bowler, who was also seconded to MI6.
- A specialist bowler, she took ten Test wickets at an average of 23.00.
- In November 2018, she opened a sports hall named in her honour at The Hewett Academy in Norwich.
- She attended Ursuline Convent in Ilford, east London, where she captained the First XI hockey team, and also played tennis and netball.
- In 2019, the MCC unveiled a portrait of her at Lord's.
- In January 2021, at the age of 109, she became one of the oldest people in the UK to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
- As Eileen Whelan, she appeared in seven Test matches for England between 1937 and 1948/49.
- Ash was employed by the Civil Service from the age of 18. She was seconded to MI6 during World War II, and went on to work with that organisation for eleven years.
- To mark her 106th birthday, she was taken for a flight in a Tiger Moth (a 1930s British biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland).
- Ash was the longest-lived international cricketer, living to the age of 110 years and 34 days.
- She also played Test cricket both before and after World War II, making her debut against Australia at Northampton in June 1937,and playing her last Test against New Zealand in Auckland in March 1949.
- In July 2017, aged 105, Ash rang the bell at Lord's to signal the start of play at the 2017 Women's World Cup Final, which England won.
- Ash's best career performance came against a Victoria Country XI in a tour match in 1949 with an all-round display scoring an unbeaten century and taking five wickets in the match which also propelled England to a comfortable 170 run win.
- Ash played club cricket for the Ilford Wanderers and Wagtails teams, and top level domestic cricket for Civil Service, Middlesex, and South of England.
- She took up golf in later life, only quitting at the age of 98.
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