Greatest Women in Cricket
The finest female cricket players and champions in history.
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Women's Cricket Legends
Browse 14 of the greatest female cricket athletes of all time.
Australian
Ellyse Perry
All-Rounder
The most complete player in women's cricket history — an all-rounder of genuine Test quality whose 213* agains…
British
Heather Knight
Batsman/Captain
England's most successful women's Test captain — the architect of England's 2017 World Cup victory on home soi…
Indian
Mithali Raj
Batsman
The most prolific run-scorer in women's international cricket history — India's most capped player and the fir…
Australian
Belinda Clark
Batsman
The first cricketer — male or female — to score a double century in a One Day International. Clark's 229* agai…
British
Charlotte Edwards
Batsman/Captain
England's most successful women's cricket captain — led England to four Ashes series victories, the 2009 World…
Australian
Meg Lanning
Batsman/Captain
Australia's greatest women's cricket captain and the finest female batter of her generation — led Australia to…
Indian
Smriti Mandhana
Opening Batsman
India's most stylish and celebrated batter — ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year twice, Mandhana's elegant left-…
British
Rachael Heyhoe Flint
Batsman/Captain
The trailblazer of women's cricket — England captain who led the team to the first Women's World Cup victory i…
New Zealander
Suzie Bates
Batsman
New Zealand's greatest women's cricketer and one of the finest batters in the history of the game — the first …
British
Jan Brittin
Batsman
England's most prolific women's Test batsman — 1,935 Test runs at an average of 49.62, the highest average of …
Australian
Karen Rolton
All-Rounder
Australia's greatest women's all-rounder before the modern era — ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2006, World…
Australian
Cathryn Fitzpatrick
Fast Bowler
The fastest female bowler in cricket history — capable of genuine pace that troubled the world's best batters,…
Australian
Lisa Sthalekar
All-Rounder
The first woman to complete the double of 1,000 ODI runs and 100 ODI wickets — a genuine all-rounder of rare q…
Trinidadian
Stafanie Taylor
All-Rounder
The West Indies' most accomplished women's cricketer and the first woman to reach No.1 in ICC rankings in both…