Regardless of your gender, the Twenty20 format is always entertaining to watch. When players give their all during T20 cricket, they frequently create an engaging atmosphere for spectators.
The competitive batting, fielding, and bowling displayed by cricket players is a major draw for spectators to stadiums throughout the world. In women’s cricket, the majority of games are Twenty20 competitions.
The outstanding batting of certain female cricket players has allowed them to take the lead in their competition. Let’s have a look there at women’s Twenty20 cricket players who have scored the most runs so far.
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Player | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | Strike-rate | Best | ||
Suzie Bates (NZ) | 143 | 140 | 3820 | 29.61 | 109.70 | 124* | 24 | 1 |
Meg Lanning (AUS) | 132 | 121 | 3405 | 36.61 | 116.37 | 133* | 15 | 2 |
Stafanie Taylor (WI) | 113 | 111 | 3166 | 35.57 | 100.66 | 90 | 21 | – |
Harmanpreet kaur (IND) | 151 | 136 | 3058 | 28.05 | 106.31 | 103 | 10 | 1 |
Sophie Devine (NZ) | 119 | 116 | 2969 | 29.10 | 121.23 | 105 | 17 | 1 |
Smriti Mandhana (IND) | 116 | 112 | 2802 | 27.74 | 123.87 | 86 | 22 | – |
Deandra Dottin (WI) | 127 | 125 | 2697 | 25.68 | 122.81 | 112* | 12 | 2 |
Bismah Maroof (PAK) | 132 | 126 | 2658 | 27.12 | 91.30 | 70* | 12 | – |
Charlotte Edwards (ENG) | 95 | 93 | 2605 | 32.97 | 106.93 | 92* | 12 | – |
Alyssa Healy (AUS) | 141 | 123 | 2489 | 24.40 | 126.92 | 148* | 14 | 1 |
Suzie Bates
The New Zealand batsman Suzie Bates has a respectable batting average of 29.61 and has scored a total of 3820 runs across 143 matches and 140 innings played in the Women’s Twenty20 competition.
Moreover, Suzie has reached the fifty-point mark the most frequently 25 times in this format. Her batting statistics are evidence of how reliable she is in this competition style.
Bates has not only scored runs but also taken 55 wickets in Twenty20 matches. It is a remarkable accomplishment to reach the position of an all-rounder who also leads the format in scoring.
Meg Lanning
Meg Lanning, an Australian leading batter, has scored a total of 3405 scores in 132 Women’s Twenty20 international matches, which places her in second place for most runs scored in 121 innings.
Her average of 36.61 is highly compelling, yet only a few players have been able to maintain this for an extended period of time. In the T20 International, Lanning scored two centuries.
Stafanie Taylor
When it comes to accumulating the most scores in Twenty20 cricket, the skipper of the Caribbean team, Stefanie Taylor, is now in third place. She has scored 3166 runs throughout the course of 113 matches playing 111 innings, maintaining a remarkable average of 35.57.
Her 35.57 average in the shortest game structure places her third overall among Women’s Twenty20 batting averages. Moreover, Stefanie is the second player in T20 history to score 50 points.
The West Indies Women’s team relies heavily on Stefanie as their central pillar of support.
Harmanpreet Kaur
Harmanpreet Kaur, who now serves as the captain of the women’s cricket team of India, has scored 3058 runs over the course of 151 matches, which places her fourth all-time among women’s Twenty20 run scorers.
Kaur is considered to be one of the top sloggers in cricket of women since she has a fantastic scoring rate of 106.04 and smashes the bowlers. The score of 103 that Harmanpreet Kaur made versus New Zealand is the best score ever made by an Indian player in a women’s Twenty20 match.
Sophie Devine
On the list of players who have scored the most runs in women’s Twenty20, renowned New Zealand all-rounder Sophie Devine is ranked fifth. After participating in 119 Twenty20 matches, Devine has scored 2969 runs at such a respectable average of 29.10 runs per match.
Devine has scored 17 fifty runs, which places her in second place among all New Zealand batters who have participated in Women’s Twenty20.
Smriti Mandhana
Recently, Indian great opener Smriti Mandhana moved above Deandra Dottin to take the sixth spot on the list of players with the most runs scored in the women’s twenty20 competition.
The slick Southpaw has played in 116 Twenty20 Internationals and has scored a stunning total of 2802 runs with a scoring rate of 123.87. In the format, Mandhana has scored a total of 22 fifty-point scores, the most ever recorded by any Indian player in women’s Twenty20.
Deandra Dottin
The all-rounder of West Indian cricket Deandra Dottin has a respectable batting average of 25.68, which places her seventh overall in the Women’s Twenty20 run-scoring rankings. She has scored a total of 2697 runs throughout 127 matches in 125 innings.
Dottin’s scoring rate is 122.81. The record for most sixes hit by a single batsman in the Women’s Twenty20 competition is held by Deandra, who has hit more than 105 of them. She has also taken 62 wickets with the ball in her career.
Bismah Maroof
The Pakistani cricketer Bismah Maroof is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm leg breaks. He is a member of the Pakistan national team.
In June of 2022, she surpassed the 2,000-run mark in both one-day internationals and twenty20 internationals, making her the player with the highest number of runs scored for the women’s cricket team of Pakistan in both forms.
She has scored 2658 runs in 126 innings and has played in 132 matches, which places her at number eight on the list of players with the most runs. Over her career, she recorded a total of 12 fifties.
Charlotte Edwards
Charlotte Edwards, a former captain for the England national team, now sits in the ninth spot on the list of players who have scored the most runs in women’s Twenty20 International.
With a respectable average of 32.97, she has scored a total of 2605 runs during the course of 95 matches playing 93 innings. In the shortest version of the game, she has hit as many as 12 fifties. She is a formidable batter.
In 2009, Edwards captained England to victory in the Twenty20 World Cup, which England went on to win for the first time.
Alyssa Healy
Alyssa Jean Healy is a cricketer from Australia who competes for the Australian female national team, New South Wales in county cricket, and the Sydney Sixers within WBBL. She is also a member of the Australian women’s domestic cricket squad.
She participated in 141 Twenty20 matches at the international level, played 123 innings, and scored 2489 runs. She is now ranked 10th overall in the majority of the T20 international runs.
She had 14 fifties and a hundred in her score.
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