Women’s World Cup Records And Statistics: Highest Individual Scores Of Players

Check to have a detailed view of the highest individual scores, as registered by stunning players at the Women’s World Cup matches.

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With the first competition taking place in England in 1973, the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup is the oldest international competition in the sport. The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup is another international T20 cricket championship. Moreover, matches are played as One Day Internationals (ODIs) over 50 overs per team. 

The table- below comprises the maximum individual scores of different players who have successfully registered extraordinary achievements to their names: 

Runs  Balls Batter Batting Team Opposition Venue  Date
126 65 Meg Lanning Australia Ireland Sylhet, Bangladesh  27 March 2014
112 45 Deandra Dottin West Indies South Africa  Basseterre, Saint Kitts & Nevis 5 May 2010
108 66 Heather Knight England  Thailand Canberra, Australia  26 February 2020
103 51 Harmanpreet Kaur India New Zealand Providence, Guyana 9 November 2018
102 68 Muneeba Ali Pakistan Ireland Newlands, South Africa 15 February 2023

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  • Meg Lanning: Australian cricketer Meghann Moira Lanning AM, who was born on March 25, 1992, is the team’s current captain. She participated in seven victorious global championship campaigns, taking home two Women’s Cricket World Cups and five ICC Women’s World T20 championships. Going by the records of highest individual scores, she managed to score 126 runs from 65 balls against Ireland in March 2014. 
  • Deandra Dottin: This player successfully scored 112 runs in a match against South Africa on 5 May 2010. She debuted in June 2008 for the West Indies women’s cricket squad as a right-handed batter and right-arm fast bowler. She bats in the lower order and has a hard swing. In a Women’s T20 International in 2010, she scored the first century. On June 29, 2017, she participated in her 100th Women’s One Day International (WODI) game, which was India vs. the West Indies in the Women’s Cricket World Cup’s group stage. 
  • Heather Knight: She bowls off-spin with her right arm and bats with her right hand. As per reports, she managed to register 108 runs out of 66 balls, against team Thailand in Canberra, Australia. Knight became the first player from England and the first woman to score an international century in each of the game’s three formats.
  • Harmanpreet Kaur: The India Women’s National Cricket Team is mostly led by Indian cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur in all formats of the game. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports presented her with the 2017 Arjuna Award for Cricket. She is an all-rounder for the Indian women’s cricket team. As per the records of highest individual scores, she managed to secure the fourth position by scoring 103 runs from 51 balls in a match against New Zealand on 9 November 2018.

Overall, the Women’s Cricket World Cup has managed to gather a huge fan following throughout the years because of such players who effortlessly secured exceptional records to their names.

Also Read: Step-by-Step Guide to Become an International Cricket Umpire

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