England v Pakistan – 1st women’s T20I by the numbers

1st T20I – England v Pakistan
Edgbaston, Birmingham, 11 May
England 163/6 (20.0) beat Pakistan 110 (18.2) by 53 runs
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11 – In a high profile match to kick off the summer, England women’s home season got off to rocky start when they lost four early wickets against Pakistan. This early collapse saw England reduced to their lowest total at the fall of the 4th wicket in a T20I.

152 – After this early wobble though, England recovered to score the third most runs by any women’s T20I team after the fall of the 4th wicket, and the most in a match between two Full Member nations:

• 166 Nepal v Maldives, 2022 (61/4 to 227/4)
• 158 Rwanda v Eswatini, 2021 (46/4 to 204/5)
• 152 England v Pakistan, 2024 (11/4 to 163/6)
• 129 Australia v India, 2022 (67/4 to 196/4)

England were the first women’s team in the format to pass the 150 mark after losing their first four wickets for under 20 runs.

11/4 is the joint lowest 1st innings total at the fall of the 4th wicket from which a team has gone on to win a women’s T20I. The other instance of a side turning around such a start, was when Nepal managed a 5 run victory against Malaysia during last year’s T20 World Cup Asia Region Qualifier.

100 – Player of the match and Birmingham native, Amy Jones was making her 100th T20 international appearance. Jones was the seventh English woman to reach that mark in T20Is.

37 & 4 – In a landmark game in front of her home crowd, Jones became the first wicket-keeper in women’s T20I history to both score 30+ runs and take four catches in the same match. Jones had never taken more than two catches in an innings in her previous 99 appearances.

191 – Jones is England women’s highest run-scorer in T20Is played at Edgbaston.

75 – Jones’ efforts with the gloves also saw her surpass former England keeper Sarah Taylor, and move up to second place for most career dismissals by a woman in the format:

• 122 Alyssa Healy (AUS) -ct 61, st 61 in 140 innings
• 75 Amy Jones (ENG) – ct 40, st 35 in 83 innings
• 74 Sarah Taylor (ENG) – ct 23, st 51 in 88 innings

49 – Heather Knight’s innings was her highest T20I score on home soil. Knight, who chose to sit out the latest season of the WPL in favour of international commitments, is averaging 49.83 at a strike rate of 131.14 in T20Is since the start of the winter.

67 – Knight and Jones’ partnership was England women’s highest 5th wicket stand in a T20I at home since Sarah Taylor and Jenny Gunn made 80 against New Zealand at Southampton in 2010.

41* – Dani Gibson made her highest international score. Gibson’s innings was the second highest score by an English woman batting at #7 or lower in aT20I:

• 51* Freya Kemp v IND at Derby, 2022 (#7)
• 41* Dani Gibson v PAK at Edgbaston, 2024 (#7)
• 39 Arran Brindle v PAK at Loughborough, 2013 (#8)

195.23 – Gibson’s strike rate was the second highest by any woman when scoring 40+ runs from #7 or lower in the format:

• 273.33 Alyssa Healy (AUS) – 41* off 15 v IND, 2016
• 195.23 Dani Gibson (ENG) – 41* off 21 v PAK, 2024
• 182.14 Izzy Gaze (NZ) 51* off 28 v ENG, 2024

57 – Faced with a record chase, Pakistan got off to a bright start to the innings. Reaching 57/2 (6.0), this was the first time since 2015 that Pakistan had been recorded scoring 50 runs inside the powerplay (publicly available women’s ball-by-ball records are not complete enough to be more precise about where this innings stands among Pakistan’s highest powerplay totals).

While Pakistan dominated the powerplay with bat and ball, the complete reverse was true for the rest of both innings.

Powerplay overs

• England 29/4 (6.0) at 4.83 rpo
• Pakistan 57/2 (6.0) at 9.50 rpo

Non-powerplay overs

• England 134/2 (14.0) at 9.57 rpo
• Pakistan at 53/8 (12.2) at 4.30 rpo

7 – In losing 7/31, Pakistan suffered their worst 4th to 10th wicket collapse in a T20I against England since their first meeting in the format, when they lost 7/16 at Taunton during the 2009 World T20.

5.46 @ 18.5 – In women’s T20Is played among Full Member nations since the start of 2023, only Bangladesh (5.00 rpo) score more slowly against spin than Pakistan (5.46 rpo), and only Ireland (16.9) lose wickets more often than Pakistan’s rate of 18.5 balls per dismissal.

women’s T20I run-rate against pace and spin since 2023

4 – Sarah Glenn’s figures were the joint best taken by an England women’s spinner in a T20I on home soil:

• 4-12 Dani Hazell v WI at Hove, 2012
• 4-12 Sarah Glenn v PAK at Edgbaston, 2024
• 4-18 Sophie Ecclestone v NZ at Taunton, 2018

7.50 – Glenn now averages a remarkable 7.50 with the ball in T20Is against Pakistan, the best average by any woman with 10 or more career wickets against them in the format.

14 – Sophie Ecclestone (4-0-17-1) has now taken at least one wicket in each of her last fourteen consecutive T20Is, a run which began against West Indies in the opening game of the 2023 T20 World Cup.

114 – At just 25 years of age, Ecclestone has become England women’s joint highest wicket-taker in the format, drawing level with the legendary Katherine Sciver-Brunt:

• 114 Sophie Ecclestone (78 innings)
• 114 Katherine Sciver-Brunt (111 innings)
• 102 Anya Shrubsole (79 innings)

England have the best collective bowling average and strike rate (17.27 and 16.50) of any spin attack in women’s T20Is played among the Full Member nations since the start of 2023.

3 – Lauren Bell’s figures (3.2-0-22-3) were her best in a T20I since 2022, and the first time she has taken three wickets in the format at home.

12,241 – The crowd at Edgbaston was a new record attendance for an England v Pakistan women’s match.

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Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.

New Zealand v England – 5th women’s T20I by the numbers

5th T20I – New Zealand v England
Basin Reserve, Wellington, 29 March
England 138/5 (18.5) beat New Zealand 136/6 (20.0) by 5 wickets

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137 – In winning the fifth and final match of the series, England completed the third highest successful chase in women’s T20Is played in New Zealand, and the second highest by a visiting side:

• 154 South Africa v New Zealand at Basin Reserve, 2020
• 140 New Zealand v West Indies at Seddon Park, 2018
• 137 England v New Zealand at Basin Reserve, 2024
• 136 New Zealand v India at Eden Park, 2019

31 & 2/24 – Nat Sciver-Brunt was awarded player of the match for her all-round display. This was the fifth time in her T20I career that Sciver-Brunt has both scored 30+ runs and taken two or more wickets in the same game. No other English woman has achieved this match double more than three times:

• 5 Nat Sciver-Brunt
• 3 Laura Marsh
• 2 Charlotte Edwards; Katherine Sciver-Brunt

57 – Sciver-Brunt’s partnership with Heather Knight was England women’s highest 4th wicket stand in T20Is against New Zealand, beating Knight’s 55 run partnership with Amy Jones at Taunton in 2021.

51* – Izzy Gaze’s maiden international fifty was a breakthrough innings for the White Ferns, who have struggled for batting depth in recent years. Gaze was the first player from outside New Zealand’s ‘big three’ of Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates and Melie Kerr to score a T20I half-century since Katey Martin made 56* against Australia at North Sydney Oval in September 2018.

6 – Gaze’s milestone was the first T20I half-century made by a White Fern’s batter at #6 or lower in the order:

• 51* Izzy Gaze v ENG at Wellington, 2024
• 39 Katey Martin v IND at Providence, 2018
• 37* Maddy Green v BAN at Dunedin, 2022

Her partnership with Brooke Halliday was also a New Zealand record for the 6th wicket in the format:

• 56 Izzy Gaze & Brooke Halliday v ENG, 2024
• 42* Bernadine Bezuidenhout & Katey Martin v AUS, 2018
• 41 Nicola Browne & Sophie Devine v AUS, 2010

3/30 – This was the twelfth time that Sophie Ecclestone (4-0-30-3) has taken a haul of three wickets or more in T20Is. Anya Shrubsole (14) is the only English woman to have taken more such hauls in their T20I career. No woman from any nation has taken more than Ecclestone’s twelve 3-fers before the age of 25.

Melie Kerr’s own 4-0-30-3 were her best figures in the format against England. Kerr has now taken 3-fer on both occasions that she has captained the White Ferns in a T20I.

223 – Player of the series, Maia Bouchier finished with the second most runs by an English woman in any T20I series or tournament, and a new national record for a bilateral series:

• 256 Tammy Beaumont, Tri-series v NZ, SA, 2018 (5 innings)
• 223 Maia Bouchier v NZ, 2024 (5 innings)
• 216 Nat Sciver-Brunt, 2023 T20 World Cup (5 innings)

10 – the team that scored the most runs in the ten overs after the powerplay won all five matches in the series.

middle over (7-16) runs

7.3 – England averaged 7.3 balls faced per boundary during the middle overs across the series, compared with the Whiter Ferns’ rate of 13.0 balls per boundary. This difference in intent throughout the series was exemplified by the fact that New Zealand didn’t hit a single six in overs 7-16, while England cleared the rope four time during that phase of the innings.

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Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.

New Zealand v England observed TV bowling speeds

New Zealand v England – 4th women’s T20I by the numbers

4th T20I – New Zealand v England
Basin Reserve, Wellington, 27 March
England 177/3 (20.0) beat New Zealand 130/7 (20.0) by 47 runs

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6 – England women have now won six of the seven bilateral T20I series they have played against New Zealand, including the last five in a row. The last time the White Ferns came out victorious in a bilateral T20I series against England was in 2010:

• ENG 2-1 NZ in England, 2007
• NZ 2-1 ENG in England, 2010
• ENG 4-0 NZ in New Zealand, 2012
• ENG 2-1 NZ in New Zealand, 2015
• ENG 3-0 NZ in New Zealand, 2021
• ENG 2-1 NZ in England, 2021
• ENG 3-1 NZ in New Zealand, 2024* (1 match still to play)

177 – England’s total was the highest New Zealand have conceded in a T20I on home soil, and the third highest made against the White Ferns in any match in the format:

• 194/5 India at Providence, 2018
• 184/4 England at Chelmsford, 2021
• 177/3 England at Wellington, 2024
• 173/9 Australia at Paarl, 2024
• 172/2 England at Bath, 2007

91 – Maia Bouchier followed up her maiden T20I half-century in 3rd game of the series with a new career best in the 4th. Bouchier’s previous highest score in all T20 matches had been the 73 she made for Hampshire against Sussex in 2022.

Bouchier’s innings was the highest score made by a visiting player in T20Is against New Zealand:

• 91 Maia Bouchier (ENG) at Wellington, 2024
• 86 Smriti Mandhana (IND) at Hamilton, 2019
• 73* Ash Gardner (AUS) at Hamilton, 2021
• 72 Jemimah Rodrigues (IND) at Auckland, 2019
• 71 Maia Bouchier (ENG) at Nelson, 2024

75 – Bouchier’s partnership with Alice Capsey was England women’s second highest 2nd wicket stand against New Zealand in the format, beaten only by Bouchier’s 92 run partnership with Tammy Beaumont in the previous game.

207.14 – Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 29* off 14 balls was the second highest strike rate innings of her T20I career. The only woman in the format to have made more scores of 25+ runs at a 200+ strike rate during their career than Sciver-Brunt (5) is South Africa’s Chloe Tryon:

• 7 Chloe Tryon (SA)
• 5 Alyssa Healy (AUS); Esha Oza (UAE); Nat Sciver-Brunt (ENG)
• 4 Deandra Dottin (WI/BAR); Sophie Devine (NZ)

233.33 – Heather Knight’s innings (21* off 9 balls) was also the second fastest scoring of her career. Knight’s strike of 150.00 for the series as a whole is currently her personal best for any T20I series or tournament in which she has scored 100 runs or more.

15 rpo – Sciver-Brunt and Knight’s 35* run stand off 14 balls was the highest run-rate partnership of 25+ runs ever made against New Zealand women in a T20I.

55 – England’s runs in overs 17-20 were the fourth most they have scored in the last four overs of a T20I:

• 62/1 v South Africa at Taunton, 2018
• 61/1 v South Africa at Derby, 2022
• 57/1 v Australia at Manuka Oval, 2020
• 55/1 v New Zealand at Basin Reserve, 2024

2,611 – Danni Wyatt became England women’s highest run-scorer in the format, surpassing the longstanding record of former captain Charlotte Edwards:

• 2,611 Danni Wyatt (131 innings)
• 2,605 Charlotte Edwards (93 innings)
• 2,352 Nat Sciver-Brunt (110 innings)

42 – Melie Kerr’s innings (4-0-42-1) was the costliest spell of her T20I career, and the most runs conceded by a White Ferns bowler in a T20I at home.

4 – Charlie Dean (4-0-26-4) became the fourth England women’s bowler, and first spinner, to take two hauls of four wickets or more in their T20I career:

• 3 Jenny Gunn (76 innings); Anya Shrubsole (79 innings)
• 2 Charlie Dean (20 innings); Nat Sciver Brunt (104 innings)

Dean’s figures were the best taken by a visiting spin bowler against New Zealand. The five best such analyses against the White Ferns have all been achieved by England bowlers:

• 4-26 Charlie Dean at Basin Reserve, Wellington, 2024
• 3-10 Heather Knight at Cobham Oval, Whangarei, 2015
• 3-10 Mady Villiers at Wellington Regional Stadium, 2021
• 3-15 Dani Hazell at Wellington Regional Stadium, 2012
• 3-24 Danni Wyatt at Seddon Park, Hamilton, 2012

20 – This was the 20th time in her T20I career that Sophie Ecclestone (4-0-19-1) has delivered four overs at an economy rate of better than 5 runs per over. Ecclestone goes at under 5 rpo in 35.7% of innings in which she delivers her full quota of 4.0 overs, and at a run a ball or better in 58.9%.

23 – At 23 years 166 days, Melie Kerr became the youngest White Ferns batter to bring up 1,000 runs in T20Is, and the third youngest woman from any nation to complete the career double of 1,000 runs and 50 wickets in the format:

• 22y 135d Stafanie Taylor (WI)
• 23y 103d Hayley Matthews (WI)
• 23y 166d Melie Kerr (NZ)

47 – The result margin was New Zealand women’s second heaviest defeat by runs in a home T20I:

• Lost by 48 runs to ENG at Hamilton, 2012
• Lost by 47 runs to ENG at Wellington, 2024
• Lost by 32 runs to ENG at Wellington, 2021

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Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.

New Zealand v England – 3rd women’s T20I by the numbers

3rd T20I – New Zealand v England
Saxton Oval, Nelson, 24 March
New Zealand 155/3 (20.0) beat England 152/8 (20.0) by 3 runs

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2 – New Zealand women’s victory at Nelson was just the second they have achieved in the thirteen T20Is they have hosted against England. The White Ferns’ only previous home win in the format against England was at Whangarei in February 2015.

155 – New Zealand’s total was the highest they have made in a T20I against England, beating a mark that had stood since the second meeting between the sides in the format, almost seventeen years ago:

• 155/3 at Nelson, 2024
• 152/6 at Bath, 2007
• 150/6 at Taunton, 2007

3 – The result margin was New Zealand women’s fourth narrowest victory by runs in a T20I:

• Won by 1 run v West Indies at New Plymouth, 2018
• Won by 2 runs v Australia at Hobart, 2010
• Won by 2 runs v India at Hamilton, 2019
• Won by 3 runs v England at Nelson, 2024

And England women’s third closest defeat in the format:

• Lost by 1 run v Pakistan at Loughborough, 2013
• Lost by 2 runs v West Indies at Basseterre, 2010
• Lost by 3 runs v New Zealand at Nelson, 2024

2019 – The last time England women bowled the full 20 overs in the first innings of a T20I and took three wickets or fewer, was against Australia at Chelmsford during the 2019 Ashes.

20 – Player of the match, Sophie Devine (60) became the fifth woman to make twenty scores of fifty or more in T20Is:

• 29 Suzie Bates NZ (152 innings)
• 24 Beth Mooney AUS (89 innings)
• 23 Smriti Mandhana IND (124 innings)
• 22 Stafanie Taylor WI (114 innings)
• 20 Sophie Devine NZ (126 innings)

New Zealand women’s last three T20I victories against England (Nelson 2024, Edgbaston 2022 and Hove 2021) have all been games in which Devine made a half-century.

60 & 2 – Adding figures of 2-23 with the ball to her 60 runs with the bat, this was the sixth time in her T20I career that Devine has both scored 50+ runs and taken two or more wickets in the same match. Devine has accomplished this all-round feat more often than any other woman in the format:

• 6 Sophie Devine (NZ)
• 4 Stafanie Taylor (WI)
• 3 Dane van Niekerk (SA)

99 – Devine and Melie Kerr’s partnership was New Zealand women’s second highest stand for any wicket in a T20I against England:

• 105 Suzie Bates & Sara McGlashan at Southampton, 2010
• 99 Sophie Devine & Melie Kerr at Nelson, 2024
• 64 Suzie Bates & Rachel Priest at Whangarei, 2015

36 – With seven to defend at the death, New Zealand’s final over hero Suzie Bates conceded just four runs and became the oldest White Ferns bowler to take a T20I wicket:

• 36y 190d Suzie Bates 2-4 v ENG at Nelson, 2024
• 36y 18d Helen Watson 1-17 v AUS at Lincoln, 2008
• 35y 295d Suzie Bates 1-13 v SL at Colombo, 2023

Bates was the oldest New Zealand women’s player to take a wicket in any international format since Catherine Campbell took 2-17 at the age of 37 against Ireland at Lincoln during the ODI World Cup in 2000.

71 – Maia Bouchier made her first half-century in the format, but ended the day with the joint second highest T20I score by an English woman in a losing cause:

• 73 Sarah Taylor v NZ at Southampton, 2010
• 71 Tammy Beaumont v SA at Taunton, 2018
• 71 Maia Bouchier v NZ at Nelson, 2024

151.06 – While Bouchier scored 71 runs off 47 balls at a strike rate of 151.06, the rest of her team-mates contributed just 68 off 74 at a strike rate of 91.89.

92 – Bouchier’s partnership with Tammy Beaumont was England women’s record 2nd wicket stand against New Zealand in T20Is, and their second highest partnership for any wicket in the format against the White Ferns.

6 – Once Bouchier was dismissed however, England suffered their second worst 3rd to 8th wicket collapse in a T20I innings:

• 6/13 v West Indies at Bridgetown, 2013 (83/2 to 96/8)
• 6/25 v New Zealand at Nelson, 2024 (127/2 to 152/8)
• 6/26 v West Indies at Basseterre, 2009 (70/2 to 96/8)

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Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.

Zimbabwe v Ireland – 3rd women’s T20I by the numbers

3rd T20I – Zimbabwe v Ireland
Harare Sports Club, 30 January
Ireland 169/3 (20.0) beat Zimbabwe 109/7 (20.0) by 60 runs
video scorecard | match stream

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6 – Ireland women have now won six of the nine bilateral T20I series they have played since 2021. By contrast, they had been victorious in just one of the seven bilateral series they had played in the format until the end of 2020 (2-0 against Netherlands in 2011). Zimbabwe are the fourth different opposition team Ireland have beaten in a bilateral series.

Bilateral T20I series wins for Ireland women

• 2-0 v NED in Netherlands, 2011
• 3-1 v SCO in Ireland, 2021
• 2-1 v NED in Ireland, 2021
• 2-0 v SCO in Scotland, 2022 (1 abandoned)
• 2-1 PAK in Pakistan, 2022
• 3-0 v NED in Netherlands, 2023
• 3-0 v ZIM in Zimbabwe, 2024 (two fixtures remaining)

60 – Ireland’s margin of victory was their fifth biggest in terms of runs in a T20I, and their biggest against a Full Member nation:

• 164 v Germany, 2021
• 79 v Netherlands, 2019
• 66 v Netherlands 2023
• 61 v Scotland, 2021
• 60 v Zimbabwe, 2024 (3rd T20I)
• 57 v Zimbabwe, 2024 (1st T20I)

169 – Ireland’s total was their sixth highest in the format overall, and the third highest they have made against a Full Member nation. The top three scores on that list have all been made during this series:

• 191/3 v Zimbabwe at Harare, 2024 (1st T20I)
• 172/3 v Zimbabwe at Harare, 2024 (2nd T20I)
• 169/3 v Zimbabwe at Harare, 2024 (3rd T20I)
• 167/4 v Pakistan at Lahore, 2022

8.86 – Ireland’s average run-rate as a batting team across the three matches so far is currently their highest for any T20I series or tournament.

220 – With two matches still to play, Amy Hunter (42) has already broken the record for most runs scored by an Irish woman in a T20I series or tournament:

• 220 Amy Hunter v ZIM, 2024 (3 innings)
• 180 Gaby Lewis quad series v NED, SCO, THA, 2019 (6 innings)
• 145 Gaby Lewis T20 World Cup Europe qualifier (3 innings)
• 144 Gaby Lewis v PAK, 2022 (3 innings)
• 142 Kim Garth v WI, 2019 (3 innings)

100 – Captain Laura Delany became the first woman to earn 100 caps for Ireland in T20Is:

• 100 Laura Delany
• 88 Mary Waldron
• 79 Gaby Lewis
• 69 Eimear Richardson
• 58 Shauna Kavanagh

54* – Delany’s innings was her second T20I half-century, and her firs away from home.

69 – Orla Prendergast has now made the second most scores of fifty or more by an Irish woman in the format:

• 12 Gaby Lewsi (79 innings)
• 4 Orla Prendergast (42 innings)
• 3 Amy Hunter (26 innings)
• 2 Eimear Richardson (53 innings)
• 2 Laura Delany (84 innings)

2 – Prendergast and Delany’s innings made this the third time that two Irish women have made half-centuries in the same T20I innings, and the first when neither had opened the batting.

69 & 1 – Prendergast became the third Irish woman to both score a half-century and take at least one wicket in the same T20I:

• Kim Garth 51* & 3-22 v WI at Dublin, 2019
• Eimear Richardson 63* & 2-13 v NED at Deventer, 2019
• Eimear Richardson 53 & 1-22 v NED at Cartagena, 2021
• Orla Prendergast 69 & 1-6 v ZIM at Harare, 2024

8 – Ireland’s eight bowlers were the joint most they have used in a T20I innings.

2 – The eighth bowler used, Louise Little had never taken a wicket in her eleven innings across 24 previous matches in her T20I career, but ended up taking the best figures in this match (2-0-8-2).

4 – This was the fourth time in her T20I career that Kelis Ndhlovu (36 & 1-32) has both scored 25+ runs and taken at least one wicket in the same match. Only Hayley Matthews has achieved this all-round feat more often before her 19th birthday:

• 5 Hayley Matthews (WI)
• 4 Lucy Barnett (IOM), Kelis Ndhlovu (ZIM)
• 3 Gisele Ishimwe (RWA)

18 – Ndhlovu is the first player in women’s T20I history to have both scored over 400 runs and taken 20+ wickets before turning 19.

51 – Chiedza Dhururu and Loreen Tshuma’s partnership was Zimbabwe women’s second highest 4th wicket stand in the format, and their highest against a Full Member nation.

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Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.

Australia v South Africa – 3rd women’s T20I by the numbers

3rd T20I – Australia v South Africa
Bellerive Oval, Hobart, 30 January
Australia 163/5 (19.2) beat South Africa 162/7 (20.0) by 5 wickets
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10 – Australia women have now won the last ten T20I series or tournaments they have played on home soil:

• 3-0 v New Zealand, 2018
• 3-0 v Sri Lanka, 2019
• Won tri-nation series v England & India, 2020
• Won T20 World Cup, 2020
• 2-1 v New Zealand, 2020
• 2-0 v India, 2021 (1 no result)
• 1-0 v England, 2022 (1 no result, 1 abandoned)
• 2-0 v Pakistan, 2023 (1 abandoned)
• 2-1 v West Indies, 2023
• 2-1 v South Africa, 2024

The Southern Stars’ last T20I series defeat as hosts was during the T20I segment of the multi-format Ashes in November 2017.

162 – South Africa’s total was the highest they have made against Australia. Although it ended in defeat, this series still marked a significant breakthrough for the Proteas. All three of South Africa’s totals in the series exceeded their longstanding record against Australia, which had stood since their first meeting in the format, at the 2009 T20 World Cup:

• 162/7 at Hobart, 2024 (3rd T20I)
• 147/6 at Canberra, 2024 (1st T20I)
• 144/4 at Canberra, 2024 (2nd T20I)
• 140/7 at Taunton, 2009

163 – Australia sealed the series win with their joint third highest successful T20I chase:

• 173 v India at DY Patil, 2022
• 170 v England at Adelaide, 2022
• 163 v New Zealand at North Sydney, 2018
• 163 v South Africa at Hobart, 2024
• 155 v India at Edgbaston, 2022

325 – The match runs aggregate was a new record for a women’s T20I played at Bellerive Oval. The previous record at Hobart had been the 301 amassed by Australia (150/3) and England (151/1) during the Ashes in January 2014.

24 – Beth Mooney’s innings (82) took her into outright second place for most 50+ scores made in women’s T20Is (24). Only New Zealand’s Suzie Bates (28) has achieved more, albeit from 149 innings compared with Mooney’s remarkable tally from just 89 career innings.

82 – Mooney’s score was the fifth highest by an Australian woman in a T20I run chase:

• 96* Karen Rolton v ENG, 2005
• 91* Tahlia McGrath v ENG, 2022
• 89* Beth Mooney v IND, 2022
• 86* Beth Mooney v ENG, 2017
• 82 Beth Mooney v SA, 2024

3 – Mooney is one of just three women to have made three scores of 80+ runs in T20I run chases, alongside England’s Danni Wyatt and Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu. Mooney and Wyatt are the only two to have made three such scores in successful chases.

1,020 – During her innings, Mooney became the fourth woman to score over 1,000 runs in successful T20I chases:

• 1,216 Meg Lanning AUS (42 innings)
• 1,095 Alyssa Healy AUS (46 innings)
• 1,037 Suzie Bates NZ (36 innings)
• 1,020 Beth Mooney AUS (35 innings)

1,351 – Mooney also became the highest run scorer in women’s T20Is played in Australia, surpassing the record of Meg Lanning (1,307).

130.66 – Ashleigh Gardner, who scored 26* off 17 balls, has the highest career batting strike rate among all women to have faced 1,000+ balls in T20Is.

26* & 1 – This was the ninth time in her T20I career that Gardner has both scored 25+ runs and taken at least one wicket in the same match. Ellyse Perry is the only Australian woman to have achieved this all-round feat on more occasions (12).

1 – Gardner was not the only player to achieve this particular double in the match. In scoring 26 off 16 balls and taking figures of 4-0-23-1, Chloe Tryon became the second woman to achieve this all-round display against Australia while striking at over 150 with the bat and going at less than 6 rpo with the ball. The other was New Zealand’s Nicola Browne in 2014.

5.51 – Tryon’s economy rate across the three matches was her best for a T20I series since switching from bowling pace to spin at the start of 2019.

75 – Marizanne Kapp made the highest score of her T20 career at domestic or international level, and the highest by any South African woman in a T20I against Australia. Three of the four highest scores on the list have been made during this series:

• 75 Marizanne Kapp, 2024 (3rd T20I)
• 61 Laura Wolvaaardt, 2023
• 59* Tazmin Brits, 2024 (1st T20I)
• 58* Laura Wolvaardt, 2024 (2nd T20I)
• 53* Mignon du Preez, 2010

80 – Similarly, Kapp’s partnership with Anneke Bosch was also a new record for any wicket by the Proteas against Australia, beating a mark that had been set in the previous game:

• 80 Marizanne Kapp & Anneke Bosch at Hobart, 2024 (3rd T20I
• 75 Tazmin Brits & Laura Wolvaardt at Canberra, 2024 (2nd T20I)
• 73 Trisha Chetty & Shandre Fritz at Taunton, 2009
• 72 Trisha Chetty & Dane van Niekerk at Nagpur, 2016

114, 100 – Playing in this match made Suné Luus the joint most capped South African woman in T20Is, and saw Marizanne Kapp become the fourth woman to make 100 appearances in the format for the Proteas:

• 114 Mignon du Preez
• 114 Suné Luus
• 113 Shabnim Ismail
• 100 Marizanne Kapp

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Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.

Zimbabwe v Ireland – 2nd women’s T20I by the numbers

2nd T20I – Zimbabwe v Ireland
Harare Sports Club, 28 January
Ireland 172/3 (20.0) beat Zimbabwe 130/8 (20.0) by 42 runs
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172 – Having started the series with their 3rd highest total in the format, Ireland women backed that up with their fifth highest in the next game:

• 213/4 v Netherlands at Deventer, 2019
• 196/2 v Germany at Cartagena, 2021
• 191/3 v Zimbabwe at Harare, 2024 (1st T20I)
• 179/5 v Netherlands at Potchefstroom, 2010
• 172/3 v Zimbabwe at Harare, 2024 (2nd T20I)

77* – Amy Hunter followed up her unbeaten century with 77* in the 2nd match, and has now made two of the four highest individual T20I scores by an Irish woman:

• 105* Gaby Lewis v GER at Cartagena, 2021
• 101* Amy Hunter v ZIM at Harare, 2024 (1st T20I)
• 86 Nikki Symmons v NED at Potchefstroom, 2010
• 77* Amy Hunter v ZIM at Harare, 2024 (2nd T20I)
• 75* Orla Prendergast v SCO at Edinburgh, 2022

94 – Hunter’s partnership with Gaby Lewis was Ireland’s seventh highest opening stand in a T20I. Hunter and Lewis have now shared five of the nine highest opening partnerships Ireland women have made in the format.

217.64 – Orla Prendergast’s 37 off 17 balls was the highest strike rate score of 25+ runs made by an Irish woman in a T20I:

• 217.64 Orla Prendergast 37 (17) v ZIM at Harare, 2024
• 216.66 Rebecca Stokell 26* (12) v ZIM at Abu Dhabi, 2022
• 207.69 Orla Prendergast 27* (13) v NED at Malahide, 2021

119.80 – Prendergast’s career strike rate is the highest by any Irish woman to have played five or more T20Is, and places her 15th all-time among all women to have scored 500+ runs in the format.

4 – Laura Delany’s figures were her best in international cricket, and the second best taken by an Irish woman in a T20I:

• 5-12 Arlene Kelly v NED, 2023
• 4-12 Laura Delany v ZIM, 2024
• 4-15 Ciara Metcalfe v SL, 2016
• 4-16 Leah Paul v SCO, 2021
• 4-28 Lucy O’Reilly v BAN, 2018

Delany’s figures were the best taken by an Ireland women’s captain in all international formats, beating Ciara Metcalfe’s 4-27 in an ODI against Netherlands in Colombo in 2011.

52 – Kelis Ndhlovu’s innings was the first T20I half-century made by a Zimbabwean woman against another Full Member nation.

18 – At 18 years 73 days, Ndhlovu is the second left-hand batter to make two half-centuries in women’s T20Is as a teenager. The other is the UAE’s Theertha Satish.

41 – At the other end of the spectrum, Precious Marange (41y 63d) became the oldest bowler to take a wicket in a women’s T20I played between two Full Member nations, breaking the record of West Indies’ Pamela Lavine, who was 41y 54d against South Africa during the 2010 T20 World Cup.

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Australia v South Africa – 2nd women’s T20I by the numbers

2nd T20I – Australia v South Africa
Manuka Oval, Canberra, 28 January
South Africa 144/4 (19.0) beat Australia 142/6 (20.0) by 6 wickets
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1 – On a historic day at Manuka Oval, South Africa women won their first match in any format against Australia. Having first met during the 1997 ODI World Cup, this was the 24th match in all formats between the sides (fifteen ODIs and nine T20Is). The closest South Africa had come to victory before this had been a tie in an ODI at Coffs Harbour in 2016.

5 – Victory at Manuka meant the Proteas became just the fifth team in the history of women’s international cricket to beat Australia.

First women’s international victories against Australia:

• England at Brisbane, 1934 (Test)
• New Zealand at Melbourne, 1972 (Test)
• India at Levin, 1995 (ODI)
• West Indies at Mumbai, 2013 (ODI)
• South Africa at Canberra, 2024 (T20I)

4 – Australia women have now lost at least one match in each of their last four bilateral T20I series (against England, West Indies, India and South Africa), and have a 5-5 record in their last ten games in the format.

Australia’s particular difficulty in recent times has been when posting totals to defend. Starting with the 3rd Ashes T20I at Lord’s in July last year, they have lost four of the last five T20Is in which they have batted 1st.

142 – Australia were restricted to their lowest 1st innings total at home since defeat to New Zealand in the 3rd T20I at Allan Border Field, Brisbane in September 2020.

6 – Not coincidentally, this was the first time since that match in Brisbane that no members of Australia’s top six made scores of 30+ runs in a completed T20I innings.

143 – South Africa’s chase was the sixth highest they have completed in a T20I, and their highest since March 2021.

58* – Laura Wolvaardt’s innings was the third highest score by a South African woman in a T20I against Australia. Following on from Tazmin Brits’ 59* in the previous game, South Africa have now made as many half-centuries in the first two matches of this series as they had in the rest of their meetings with Australia in the format between 2009-2023:

• 61 Laura Wolvaardt at Cape Town, 2023
• 59* Tazmin Brits at Canberra, 2024 (1st T20I)
• 58* Laura Wolvaardt at Canberra, 2024 (2nd T20I)
• 53* Mignon du Preez at Basseterre, 2010

10 – Wolvaardt has now made the joint second most scores of fifty or more by a South African woman in T20Is:

• 14 Lizelle Lee (82 innings)
• 10 Laura Wolvaardt (57 innings)
• 10 Dane van Niekerk (77 innings)
• 9 Tazmin Brits (44 innings)

68.16 – Among women to have batted ten or more times in the format, Wolvaardt has the third highest average in successful T20I run chases, and the highest by a player from a Full Member nation:

• 165.50 Brenda Tau (PNG)
• 101.25 Sarah Bryce (SCO)
• 68.16 Laura Wolvaardt (SA)
• 62.40 Kavisha Egodage (UAE)

146.42 – Ordinarily a steady accumulator, Tazmin Brtis’ 41 off 28 balls was the highest strike rate score of 20+ runs in her T20I career.

75 – Wolvaardt and Brits’ opening partnership was South Africa women’s highest stand for any wicket in T20Is against Australia:

• 75 Tazmin Brits & Laura Wolvaardt at Canberra, 2024
• 73 Trisha Chetty & Shandre Fritz at Taunton, 2009
• 72 Trisha Chetty & Dane van Niekerk at Nagpur, 2016

The partnership also saw Brits and Wolvaardt become the first South African pairing to score over 1,000 runs together in the format:

• 1,050 Tazmin Brits & Laura Wolvaardt (26 innings)
• 841 Trisha Chetty & Dane van Niekerk (29 innings)
• 808 Lizelle Lee & Dane van Niekerk (29 innings)

Brits and Wolvaardt’s tally of seven 50+ partnerships together are also the most for the Proteas women.

5 – The combined efforts of Marizanne Kapp (4-0-22-1), Masabata Klaas (3-0-16-2), Nadine de Klerk (4-0-24-1), Nonkululeko Mlaba (3-0-18-1) and Chloe Tryon (2-0-10-0) made this the third time that a visiting team has had five different bowlers go at a run a ball or better in the same T20I against Australia:

• New Zealand at Darwin, 2007 (McNeill, Browne, Watson, Tsukigawa, Watkins)
• New Zealand at Adelaide, 2017 (Tahuhu, Huddleston, Kerr, Bates, Peterson)
• South Africa at Canberra, 2024 (Mlaba, Kapp, Klaas, De Klerk, Tryon)

31* – While most of the Australian line-up struggled to get going against the Proteas bowlers, Grace Harris’ 31* off 18 balls exemplified her effervescent performances since returning to the Australian side in 2022.

Harris’ strike rate of 173.91 since 2022 has been the highest by any batter to face 100+ balls in women’s T20Is in that time, and no woman to face 200+ balls in the format comes close to Harris’ extraordinary career strike rate:

• 168.06 Grace Harris (AUS)
• 138.34 Ailsa Lister (SCO)
• 137/26 Chloe Tryon (SA)
• 137.23 Lucy Barnett (IOM)
• 135/79 Tahlia McGrath (AUS)

150 – Ellyse Perry became the second Australian, and fifth woman overall, to make 150 appearances in T20 international cricket:

• 161 Harmanpreet Kaur (IND)
• 152 Suzie Bates (NZ)
• 152 Alyssa Healy (AUS)
• 151 Danni Wyatt (ENG)
• 150 Ellsye Perry (AUS)

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Australia v South Africa – 1st women’s T20I by the numbers

1st T20I – Australia v South Africa
Manuka Oval, Canberra, 27 January
Australia 149/2 (19.1) beat South Africa 147/6 (20.0) by 8 wickets
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1 – This match marked the start of the first multi-format points series played between Australia and South Africa women, and the first bilateral T20I series between the sides. All seven of their previous meetings in the format had been at T20 World Cups.

147 – South Africa’s total was the highest they have made in a T20I against Australia, beating the 140/7 they scored in their first meeting, at Taunton during the 2009 T20 World Cup.

However, sides batting 1st in women’s T20Is at Manuka Oval have now only been victorious in one of the seven matches in which they posted a total of less than 150 runs, compared with six out of eight when posting over 150. The average winning total in the format at Canberra is 166.7.

8 – This was Australia women’s biggest win in terms of wickets remaining against South Africa in T20Is, and the third highest target a team has chased down against the Proteas women for the loss of two wickets or fewer:

• 173 NZ beat SA by 8 wickets at Benoni, 2023
• 149 NZ beat SA by 8 wickets at Bristol, 2018
• 148 AUS beat SA by 8 wickets at Canberra, 2024

20 – Australia have now won 20 of their last 21 completed T20I run chases.

72* – Beth Mooney’s innings was her 23rd score of fifty or more T20Is, the second most by any woman in the format:

• 28 Suzie Bates NZ (149 innings)
• 23 Beth Mooney AUS (87)
• 23 Smriti Mandhana IND (124)
• 22 Stafanie Taylor WI (114)
• 19 Sophie Devine NZ (124)

3.8 – Mooney’s rate of 3.8 innings batted per fifty is the best for any woman to have batted 20 or more times in the format:

• 3.8 Beth Mooney AUS (2×100, 21×50 in 87 innings)
• 4.0 Tahlia McGrath AUS (7×50 in 28 innings)
• 4.8 Kathryn Bryce SCO (8×50 in 38 innings)
• 4.8 Tazmin Brits SA (9×50 in 43 innings)
• 4.8 Elyse Villani AUS (12×50 in 58 innings)

129 – This was the fourth time in seven innings that Mooney has reached fifty at Manuka Oval. Mooney now has the most runs in women’s T20Is at Manuka (387) and averages 129.00 at the ground. Mooney’s average at Canberra is the fourth highest among women to have batted five or more times at a single venue:

• 145.50 Rebecca Blake (ROM) at Marina Ground, Corfu (5 innings)
• 142.00 Fatima Guirrugo (MOZ) at Enjabulweni Cricket Ground, Manzini (5)
• 130.00 Beth Mooney (AUS) at DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai (5)
• 129.00 Beth Mooney (AUS) at Manuka Oval, Canberra (7)

19 – Mooney’s 72 run partnership with Alyssa Healy was Australia women’s highest opening stand in T20Is against South Africa, and a record 19th partnership of fifty or more for the pair in the format.

Most 50+ partnerships in women’s T20Is:

• 19 Alyssa Healy & Beth Mooney AUS (74 innings)
• 18 Suzie Bates & Sophie Devine NZ (75 innings)
• 14 Smriti Mandhana & Shafali Verma IND (62 innings)

1,047 – During their innings, Healy and Mooney became the first pairing to score over 1,000 runs in successful women’s T20I run chases:

• 1,047 Alyssa Healy & Beth Mooney (AUS)
• 846 Charlotte Edwards & Sarah Taylor (ENG)
• 737 Smriti Mandhana & Shafali Verma (IND)

This was the ninth time that Mooney and Healy have made a 50+ stand in a successful chase. No other pairing has amassed more than seven.

59* – Tazmin Brits’ innings was her ninth 50+ score in T20Is and her first against Australia. Brits’ score was the second highest by a South African woman in the format against Australia.

26 – Since the start of 2022, Darcie Brown (3-0-20-2) has taken the third most wickets by a pace bowler in women’s T20Is played between Full Member nations.

50 – In terms of innings bowled, Georgia Wareham (3-0-33-1) became the third fastest Australian woman to take 50 wickets in T20Is:

• 41 Lisa Sthalekar
• 43 Megan Schutt
• 46 Georgia Wareham
• 47 Rene Farrell
• 53 Ellyse Perry
• 59 Ash Gardner
• 63 Jess Jonassen

While that was a milestone to celebrate, Wareham’s economy rate of 11 rpo was her worst for a T20I innings in which she has delivered more than two overs.

3 – This was the first time since her recall to the T20I side in 2022 that Ellyse Perry (3-0-13-2) has delivered more than two over in an innings. The last time Perry bowled three overs in an innings was on the same ground, against Bangladesh during the 2020 T20 World Cup.

Though she has had fairly low usage so far, Perry has taken 10 wickets at an average of 10.50 since her return to the T20I team, and has been Australia’s second most economical bowler (5.25 rpo) in that time.

14.50 – Nonkululeko Mlaba’s economy rate was her highest for a T20I innings in which she delivered two or more overs. Mlaba’s previous visit to Manuka Oval had seen her return starkly different figures of 4-1-4-1 against Thailand during the 2020 T20 World Cup.

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Zimbabwe v Ireland – 1st women’s T20I by the numbers

1st T20I – Zimbabwe v Ireland
Harare Sports Club, 26 January
Ireland 191/3 (20.0) beat Zimbabwe 134/5 (20.0) by 57 runs
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191 – Ireland’s total was the third highest they have made in a T20I, and their highest against a Full Member nation:

• 213/4 v Netherlands at Deventer, 2019
• 196/2 v Germany at Cartagena, 2021
• 191/3 v Zimbabwe at Harare, 2024
• 179/5 v Netherlands at Potchefstroom, 2010

This was also highest total made against Zimbabwe women in the format:

• 191/3 Ireland at Harare, 2024
• 154/3 Thailand at Harare, 2021
• 137/6 Ireland at Abu Dhabi, 2022
• 134/5 Thailand at Harare, 2021

The only higher total made in a women’s T20I played in Zimbabwe, was the hosts’ 198/3 against Mozambique at Old Hararians in 2019.

57 – Ireland’s margin of victory was their fifth biggest in terms of runs in a T20I, and their biggest against another Full Member nation.

101* – Reaching her century off the last ball of then innings, Amy Hunter made the second highest individual score by an Irish woman T20Is:

• 105* Gaby Lewis v GER at Cartagena, 2021
• 101* Amy Hunter v ZIM at Harare, 2024
• 86 Nikki Symmons v NED at Potchefstroom, 2010
• 75* Orla Prendergast v SCO at Edinburgh, 2022

18 – At 18 years 107 days, Hunter was the third youngest player to score a hundred in a women’s T20I, and the youngest to do so either for or against a Full Member:

• 16y 233d Prosscovia Alako (UGA) v MLI, 2019
• 17y 3d Gisele Ishimwe (RWA) v ESW, 2021
• 18y 107d Amy Hunter (IRE) v ZIM, 2024
• 18y 318d Deandra Dottin (WI) v SA, 2010
• 19y 301d Sterre Kalis (NED) v GER, 2019

100 – Hunter, who scored her maiden ODI hundred against the same team on the same ground in 2021, made history as the youngest international cricketer to complete centuries in both the ODI and T20I formats:

• 18y 107d Amy Hunter (Irleand women)
• 19y 206d Kushal Malla (Nepal men)
• 21y 71d Hayley Matthews (West Indies women)
• 22y 2d Meg Lanning (Australia women)

56 – Gaby Lewis’ innings was the twelfth 50+ score of her T20I career, and her first in the format against Zimbabwe. Lewis now accounts for 46% of all the scores of fifty or more (26) made by Irish women in the format:

• 12 Gaby Lewis (77 innings)
• 3 Orla Prendergast (40 innings
• 2 Amy Hunter (24 innings)
• 2 Eimear Richardson (53 innings)

1,768 – Lewis has now made the most T20I career runs by any woman before their 23rd birthday, surpassing the mark of India’s Jemimah Rodrigues:

• 1,768 Gaby Lewis IRE (77 innings)
• 1,751 Jemimah Rodrigues IND (73 innings)
• 1,605 Shafali Verma IND (68 innings)
• 1,510 Kavisha Egodage UAE (64 innings)

138 – Hunter and Lewis’ partnership was Ireland women’s highest stand for any wicket in the format. Lewis has been part of all four century partnerships Ireland women have made in T20Is:

• 138 Amy Hunter & Gaby Lewis v ZIM, 2024
• 113* Kim Garth & Gaby Lewis v SCO, 2019
• 112 Orla Prendergast & Gaby Lewis v NED, 2019
• 110 Amy Hunter & Gaby Lewis v PAK, 2022

2 – In a game burgeoning with youthful landmarks, Kudzai Chigora became the third youngest Zimbabwean woman to take two wickets on T20I debut, and the first to do so against another Full Member nation:

• 16y 358d Chiedza Mzembe 2-17 v NAM, 2019
• 17y 110d Michelle Mavunga 2-10 v NAM, 2022
• 17y 173d Kudzai Chigora 2-46 v IRE, 2024
• 21y 229d Josephine Nkomo 4-12 v NAM, 2019

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