Published: Mar 28, 2014, 10:35 AM (IST)
Edited: Mar 28, 2014, 10:36 AM (IST)
Sydney: Mar 28, 2014
Australian opener Meg Lanning has etched her name in the Twenty20 history of women’s cricket by smashing the highest individual score in the format in her team’s record-breaking 78-run win over Ireland in the women’s World T20.
Lanning became just the third woman, and the first Australian, to pass three figures in a T20 international, smashing the Irish attack at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on her way to a superb 126 off 65 balls.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, two-time defending champions Australia’s total of 4 for 191 was the highest ever in a women’s WorldT20 match, surpassing New Zealand‘s 5 for 180 against the West Indies in 2010, and Ireland were never in the hunt – finishing at 7 for 113.
The report mentioned that the 78-run margin of victory was also the biggest in women’s World T20 history while Lanning also became the first Australian woman cricketer to pass 1000 T20 career runs.
Other records made in the match:
First Australian female to score a T20 century
Highest-ever score by an Australian female in T20 (previously 96 no by Karen Rolton against England in 2005)
Highest ever female T20 score (previous record was 116no by South Africa‘s Shandre Fritz)
Most fours (18) by a female in T20 internationals
Most combined boundaries (22, consisting of eighteen 4s, four 6s) by a female in T20 internationals.
