Overs Bowled: A Closer Look at the ICC Women's T20 Bowlers' Extraordinary Performance

The International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup (branded as the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 until 2019) is a biannual international tournament for women’s Twenty20 international cricket. The International Cricket Council (ICC) organizes the event, with the first edition taking place in England in 2009. The first three championships included eight competitors, however, this number has been increased to ten commencing with the 2014 edition. The ICC stated in July 2022 that Bangladesh will stage the 2024 tournament and England will stage the 2026 tournament. The competition will likewise feature twelve teams in 2026.

International ICC Women’s Twenty20 rankings and a qualification match, the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier, determine qualification. Starting in 2016 onwards, the host nation and two qualifiers entered the top eight teams in the ICC Women’s T20I rankings to take up the remaining seven spots.

Many names always rise to the top of the list when evaluating some of the most successful bowlers in the women’s T20 game. Every captain’s goal is to have a bowler with a raw pace because they are the best at taking wickets, that being the main goal of all bowling. Here in this article, we will evaluate many bowlers of the women’s T20 game on the basis of overs bowled by them. The below-drawn list is a brief introduction to the same:-

No.	Player	MP	O	M	R	W
1	Jess Jonassen AU-W	6	23	0	140	10
2	Megan Schutt AU-W	6	21.1	1	134	13
3	Poonam Yadav IN-W	5	20	0	119	10
4	Rajeshwari Gayakwad IN-W	5	20	1	125	5
5	Deepti Sharma IN-W	5	20	0	130	4
6	Shikha Pandey IN-W	5	19.5	0	136	7
7	Udeshika Prabodhani SLW	4	16	1	59	3
8	Nida Dar PK-W	4	16	0	116	6
9	Diana Baig PK-W	4	16	1	85	6
10	Amelia Kerr NZ-W	4	16	0	74	6

Jess Jonassen

Australian cricketer Jessica Louise Jonassen originally came from Rockhampton, in the state of Queensland. Jonassen, a left-arm orthodox bowling all-rounder who joined the Australian women’s team in 2012, went on to win four ICC T20 World Cups while also becoming the fourth woman to collect 100 wickets for Australia in one-day internationals. On January 20, 2012, at North Sydney Oval, Jonassen competed in her first Twenty20 match in international cricket against New Zealand. Domestically, she is the reigning captain of both the Queensland Fire (WNCL) and the Brisbane Heat (WBBL).

Megan Schutt

Australian cricketer Megan Schutt has served as a medium-fast bowler for the national squad since 2012. She began her professional debut in 2009 for the South Australian Scorpions, and she has subsequently played for the Adelaide Strikers since 2015. She was the first cricketer to reach three runs in a Women’s Twenty20 International (WT20I) game for Australia.

Poonam Yadav

Indian cricketer Poonam Yadav participates as a leg-spin bowler for the national women’s cricket team. On April 5, 2013, she competed in her first Women’s Twenty20 International (WT20I) game against Bangladesh. Yadav earned her ODI debut on April 12, 2013, against Bangladesh, whereas her Test Series debut was on November 16, 2014, against South Africa.

Rajeshwari Gayakwad

Cricket player Rajeshwari Gayakwad was born in India on June 1, 1991. She bowls orthodox left-arm slow left-handed. On January 19, 2014, she participated in her first One Day International, a match against Sri Lanka. Gayakwad was a member of the Indian side that progressed to the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup final eventually losing to England by a margin of nine runs. She earned India’s best bowling statistics in the history of the Women’s Cricket World Cup during that World Cup competition. She was nominated for India’s team in January 2020 in preparing for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia. She was chosen to represent India in the 2022 Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand in January 2022.

Deepti Sharma

Indian cricketer Deepti Bhagwan Sharma participates for Bengal, Birmingham Phoenix, and India. She is a versatile player who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm off-break. In terms of the ICC Cricket Rankings, she is officially ranked fourth among the best all-rounders. Deepti Sharma has become a woman cricketer’s third-highest individual scorer in ODIs (188 runs) In Bengaluru, Deepti Sharma played her first ODI match against South Africa in 2014. The ICC Women’s Championship included the game.