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Records for the short form of women's international cricket, One Day Internationals, are at List of women's One Day International cricket records. Cricket is, by its nature, capable of generating large numbers of records and statistics. Women's Test cricket has been played since 1934–35 with essentially the same rules as are played today, and ...
Lists of women Test cricketers are lists of women's Test cricket players by team. List of Australia women Test cricketers; List of England women Test cricketers; List of India women Test cricketers; List of Ireland women Test cricketers; List of Netherlands women Test cricketers; List of New Zealand women Test cricketers; List of Pakistan women ...
Mithali Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who captained the national team from 2004 to 2022. [2] [3] She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket, and ESPN ranked her as one of the greatest female cricketers of all time.
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The first recorded cricket match between women was reported in The Reading Mercury on 26 July 1745; the match was contested "between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white". [6] [4] The first known women's cricket club the White Heather Club was formed in 1887 in Yorkshire.
The first ever Cricket World Cup was organised for women in 1973 by the English Women's Cricket Association, based on an idea by cricketer Rachel Heyhoe Flint and businessman Jack Hayward. [1] After the success of the Women's Cricket World Cup , the men's tournament took place two years later.
Scoring more than 2,000 runs in T20I format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In 2014, England batter Charlotte Edwards became the first woman to score 2,000 runs in Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I). Later in 2014, she also became the first player (either male or female) to cross 2500 runs. [1]
Sandhya Agarwal is India's all-time leading run scorer, and is ranked sixth among players from all countries. Among the top ten run scorers of all time, she has the fourth-highest average. [9] Sandhya Agarwal and Mithali Raj, with scores of 190 and 214 respectively, were record holders for the most runs scored in an innings. [10]