Meghann Lanning: Biography, Age, Height, Achievements, Family, and Career Statistics

Meg Lanning was born on March 25, 1992, in Singapore. In the sport of cricket, she is a massive star. When Lanning first broke onto the international stage as a youngster in 2010, she scored a century against England in only her second ODI. She has since won four World Cups as captain and a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.

Two years later, she smashed a hundred off just 45 balls at North Sydney Oval against New Zealand, setting a new record for the quickest one-day ton by an Australian player. Lanning was appointed permanent captain of the T20 squad one month after being Australia’s youngest-ever captain in January 2014, when he stepped in for an injured Jodie Field during the Ashes.

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Later that year, she led her team to victory at the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh, and in 2015, after taking over as captain for both Tests and ODIs, she led Australia to its first women’s Ashes victory since 2001.

Lanning had a rough 2017, including shoulder surgery, after her team was eliminated from the ODI World Cup in a shocking upset. However, Australia’s captain came out on top, ushering in a golden age that saw her team win the 2018 and 2020 T20 World Cups as well as the 2022 one-day World Cup, set a record with 26 consecutive ODI victories, and continue to keep the Ashes out of English hands. In addition, she made history by leading Australia to gold at the first-ever women’s T20 cricket Commonwealth Games. Even more impressively, Lanning is Australia’s all-time highest run-scorer across all formats and has hit more one-day tons than any other woman. In the wake of the Commonwealth Games, she stepped away from cricket for a full six months.

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Biography of Meg Lanning

Real Name: Meghann Moira Lanning
Other/Nickname: Megastar, Serious Sally
Profession: Cricketer
Famous for: Top-order batter
Best Performance: 103* /118, Australia vs. England
Net Worth: $3 million
Salary: $600,000
Monthly Income: N/A
Website Url: N/A
Instagram Handle: @meglanning7

Physical Status

Height: 5’8″
Weight: 58 kg
Body Measurements: N/A
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Blonde

Personal Life:

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Date Of Birth: March 25, 1992
Place Of Birth: Singapore
Nationality: Australia
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
School: Carey Baptist Grammar School
College: Australian Catholic University
Highest Education qualification: N/A

Family Statistics –

Marital Status: Unmarried
Boyfriend: NA
Children: NA
Parents: Father- Wayne, Mother- Sue
Siblings: Sister- Anna Lanning
Religion: Christianity
Other Hobbies: Listening to Music and Swimming

Career Statistics-

Test Debut: August 11, 2013 v England

ODI Debut: January 5, 2011, v England

T20 Debut: December 30, 2010, v New Zealand

Achievements –

She smashed the records for the fastest 50 and fastest 100 in an ODI for Australian women cricketers at the age of 20.
She had held the record for most WODI centuries until she broke it on March 5, 2017, against New Zealand by scoring her 10th century in the format.
She also broke the record for most centuries by a female cricketer in Women’s ODI play with 10.
She set a new record at the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup by being the first player to ever score 11 hundred in One Day Internationals (ODIs) in less than 60 innings.
Lanning scored 2,000 runs in Twenty20 Internationals in March of 2018 during Australia’s match against England in the 2017-18 India women’s Tri-Nation Series.
Meg was named the 2015 Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World, 2014 ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year, and 2015 ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year.
She also won the Belinda Clark Award in 2014, 2015, and 2017.
Recently, she was named a Leadership Legend by the Australian Women’s Health Sports Awards.

Here are some lesser-known facts about

Meg started playing sports when she was seven and loved them all. As a child, she mostly played with boys.
At 14, she made history by being the first female athlete to compete for the Association of Victorian Public Schools on a team reserved for boys.
On October 29, 2011, against the Queensland Fire, Meg scored her first hundred for Victoria, a total of 127 from 123 balls.
She became her country’s youngest-ever ODI century-maker in her second international game, which was a match against England.
Along with her younger sister, Anna, she has competed at a high level in domestic cricket.
She has been the face of many well-known brands, like New Balance and Solar Buddy.
After Lyn Larsen and Michael Clarke, Lanning became the third Australian to win a world cup at home. In addition, Lanning received the Rachel Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC female cricketer of the decade and women’s ODI and T20I cricketer of the decade accolades.
Member of the Order of Australia appointed in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for “significant service to elite women’s cricket.”
Lanning became the third woman cricketer after India’s Mithali Raj and England’s Charlotte Edwards led her team in 150 women’s international games during the 2022 Ashes series.

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