ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020, Day 7 Round Up – Statistical Highlights

South Africa Women earned their second straight win to climb on to the top of Group B as they thumped Thailand by a record 113 runs. Lizelle Lee’s 101 powered South Africa to 195/3 who later bowled out Thailand Women to just 82 runs.

In the 2nd match of the day, Heather Knight continued her good run in Canberra with a 62-run knock which helped England reach 158/7. Chasing a big total, the Pakistan Women crumbled and were reduced to 62/6. They reached 116 before getting bowled out and brought down the losing margin to 42 runs.

All the statistical highlights recorded during big wins of South Africa and England on Friday:

1 – Lizelle Lee became the first South African to score a century in the history of the T20 World Cup. She is also only the 5th player to score a hundred in Women’s T20 World Cup but the first to do so while opening the innings.

Lizelle Lee’s maiden T20I century powers South Africa to a record victory

4 – Nonkululeko Mlaba recorded bowling figures of 4-1-4-1 in the match against Thailand. These are the joint fewest runs conceded by a bowler in a Women’s T20 CWC match. (Min: 4 overs)

5 – Heather Knight now has scored 50+ runs in each of her last five T20I innings in Canberra. No other player in T20I history has even recorded four consecutive scores of 50+ in T20Is at a venue. Knight scored four fifties and a hundred in Canberra while no other Woman has more than three 50+ scores in T20Is at a venue.

Knight is also only the 5th player with as many as five 50+ T20I scores at a venue across Men’s and Women’s cricket. Martin Guptill (Eden Park in Auckland), Virat Kohli (Mirpur in Dhaka), Mohammad Shahzad (DSC in Dubai) and Syed Aziz (Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur) are the other four players with five 50+ T20I scores at a venue.

20 – With the three dismissals in this match, Trisha Chetty now has the joint 2nd most number of dismissals in Women’s T20 World Cups. Alyssa Healy is on the top with 22 dismissals while Sarah Taylor and Rachel Priest affected 20 dismissals apiece.

40 – Anya Shrubsole now has picked up 40 wickets in T20 World Cup matches; the most by any player across Men’s and Women’s cricket. She went past Shahid Afridi (39), Lasith Malinga (38) and Ellyse Perry (37) with the three wickets she picked against Pakistan Women.

100 – Anya Shrubsole became the first England player with 100 wickets in T20I cricket with the 3-fer against Pakistan. She is now the 3rd Woman and only the 4th player across Men’s and Women’s cricket with 100 T20I wickets after Anisa Mohammed (119), Ellyse Perry (114) and Lasith Malinga (106). Shrubsole is the quickest to the milestone taking 74 matches bettering Malinga’s feat in 76 games.

100 – Nida Dar is now the 15th player and the 3rd from Pakistan to feature in 100 T20Is in Women’s cricket. Bismah Maroof (108) and Sana Mir (106) are the other two players to do so for Pakistan Women’s team.

195/3 – South Africa’s total of 195/3 against Thailand is now the highest by any team in the Women’s T20 World Cup. They went past India’s total of 194/5 which they scored against New Zealand in the 2018 edition.

Their 113-run win in the afternoon game is the first-ever winning margin of 100+ runs in the Women’s T20 World Cup. The previous biggest win in terms of runs in Women’s T20 CWC is England’s 98-run win against Thailand two days back.

384 – Heather Knight has aggregated 384 runs across nine T20Is at the Manuka Oval; the most T20I runs for any player at a venue in Women’s cricket. She went past Suzie Bates’ tally of 366 runs across 7 matches in Taunton.