Australia women's team captain Meg Lanning broke her own record for the highest score in a Women's Twenty20 international as she smashed an unbeaten 133 from 63 balls against England in the Women's Ashes series.
Australia inflicted England's biggest T20 defeat to take an unassailable 10-2 lead on points in the multi-format series. England could only manage 133/9 for a record 93-run defeat.
Lanning hit 17 fours and seven sixes in her innings to take Australia to 226/3 at Chelmsford. She broke the previous joint-record for highest individual score held by her and Sterre Kalis of the Netherlands.
She surpassed West Indies’s Deandra Dottin and India’s Mithali Raj to become the fourth-highest run-scorer in T20Is, with 2,448 runs from 86 matches.
It was Lanning's second T20I hundred, equalling Dottin and Danielle Wyatt’s tally of T20I hundreds.
She helped Australia post their highest T20I total. Australia’s 226 is the fifth-highest total in the history of women’s T20I cricket. It was also the highest total against England in T20Is.
Australia whitewashed England in the three-ODI series and drew the only Test. The last two T20Is will be played on July 28 and July 31.
