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Oz's Meg Lanning smashes T20 records in women cricket's history in 'record' win against Ireland

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ANI Sydney

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 4-191 was the highest ever in a women's WorldT20 match, surpassing New Zealand's 5-180 against the West Indies in 2010, and Ireland were never in the hunt - finishing at 7-113.

 

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)ost fours (18) by a female in T20 internationals

Most combined boundaries (22, consisting of 18x4s, 4x6s) by a female in T20 internationals.

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First Published: Mar 28 2014 | 9:37 AM IST

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