On International Women’s Day, 8th March 2020, the ICC T20 Women’s World Cup 2020 final was held between Australia and India in the famous MCG ground. Here Are Women’s World T20 Record’s
The final match set a new record of attending 86,174 huge crowds for Women’s cricket as well as women’s sport. It is the maximum people attendance for a single women’s cricket game in the whole world, breaking the last record of nearly 80,000, who attended the Women’s World Cup in 1997 in Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
This huge crowd was also the highest presence of people for any of the women’s sports events that happened in Australia. It beat the last record of 53,034 presence at the Adelaide Oval for the 2019 AFL Women’s Grand Final.
So, let’s have a look at some of the women’s World T20 records which broke the men’s records not only in this particular final match but also all the last editions are put together.
Women’s World T20 Record’s:
1. Maximum World Cup Finals played
The women’s cricket squad of Australia has qualified 6 times for the T20 World Cup final on 7 occasions and beat the Sri Lanka men’s cricket team, who has appeared 3 times in the T20 World Cup finals.
Only once, the Australian Women’s cricket team has been knocked out before the final, in the opening season in the year 2009, where New Zealand and England played the final match. In the year 2009, 2012, and 2014, Sri Lanka men’s cricket team appeared for the final matches.
2. Maximum World T20 Titles Won
The Australia women’s cricket team also has the record of winning T20 title maximum times in both men’s as well as women’s categories. This win in MCG led them to their fifth time World Cup T20 champion title. Earlier, they won in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2018 editions.
On the other hand, only the West Indies won the title two times in the year 2012 and 2016 by beating Sri Lanka and England.
3. Fastest Half-Century in Final Matches of a World Tournament in all Formats
The half-century of Alyssa Healy in just 30 deliveries in the 2020 World T20 final is the fastest half-century in a final tournament both among men as well as women in any format. Ultimately, in that match, she scored 75 runs in 39 balls and awarded as the Player of the Match. She overcame the men’s half-century record in 32 balls set by all-rounder of India, Hardik Pandya against Pakistan in the year 2017.
4. Highest Score in the World T20 Final Match
The score of Australia’s women’s team, 184 in the 2020 World Cup T20 is the highest in any World Cup T20 finals- in both men and women categories. The last highest score was 157 run done by the India men’s team against Pakistan in the World Cup T20 2007. And the last best score in women category was 149/2 by West Indies against Australia in the finals of 2016 to chase the target of 148
5. Maximum Games Played in World T20
Ellyse Perry of Australia has appeared in 36 World T20 matches, going ahead of Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka, who appeared in 34 World T20 matches. In the men’s category, his record is safe.
After Ellyse Perry, the next on the record is Alyssa Healy and Shahid Afridi with 34 appearances each.
6. Maximum Wickets in World T20 matches
Anya Shrubsole of England is the highest wicket-taker in World T20 games by taking 41 wickets in both men as well as women category. She overtook the last record of Shahid Afridi of Pakistan of taking 39 wickets against the West Indies.
The next cricketer present in the list is Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka with 38 wickets and Ellyse Perry of Australia with 37 wickets.
7. Highest Individual Score in World T20
It was a historic moment in the edition of 2014, when the Australian skipper Meg Lanning scored 126 runs in just 65 balls against Ireland. That score is the best single person’s score in the World T20 games in both men as well as women category. She broke the last record of Brendon McCullum, who scored 123 in 58 deliveries in 2012 Men’s World T20 edition against Bangladesh team.
All these records have proven the advancement made in women’s cricket in the last few years, where they have done fantastic jobs and broke the records set up by men.
Cheers to Women’s Cricket! Cheers to the Women’s Power!
