The Australian Women’s team set a new world record in the first one-day international when they beat New Zealand Women by 7 wickets at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. With the win, Australia has now become the first team to win 22 consecutive ODIs in the history of international cricket.
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Meg Lanning-led Australia broke an 18-year-old record set by the Australian Men’s team in 2003. The Ricky Ponting-led side set a record of 21 straight ODI wins which the Australian women leveled in October 2020. The last time the Australian women’s team lost in an ODI was way back in 2017.
🏆2⃣2⃣* Meg Lanning & co.
🏆2⃣1⃣ Ricky Ponting & co.#NZvAUS #NZWvAUSW pic.twitter.com/nKF10cFuFh— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) April 4, 2021
Australia’s streak started in March 2018, when they defeated India by 3-0 thereby winning the series. Since then, they have beaten all the teams, that they’ve played against, by 3-0. They had won 7 straight ODI matches by 3-0 before winning the 1st ODI against New Zealand in the ongoing Rose Bowl series.
In the latest ODI match, Alyssa Healy, Ellyse Perry, and Ashleigh Gardener’s half-centuries in addition to Megan Schutt’s 4-wicket haul helped the team win the match and take a lead in the series by 1-0
“It’s a great achievement from this group, over a long period of time. Those wins have come over three years, which I just think shows how consistent we’ve been in this format. It’s certainly a great achievement and something we’ll look back on, I guess,” said skipper Meg Lanning post the victory.
Talking about her team, she said- “That’s been a real strength of ours, having those key pillars in the team. And we have been able to add some new players as well, so a good mix of experience and youth coming through. That gives us really good variety in our attack.”
Meg Lannning and co. on the verge of creating another World Record tomorrow 😍 #NZvAUS pic.twitter.com/oJVfCiPvjP
— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) April 3, 2021
Here’s a list of Australia’s 22-victories, record-breaking, streak-
- 8 wickets vs India, Vadodara (12 March 2018)
- 60 runs vs India, Vadodara (15 March 2018)
- 97 runs vs India, Vadodara (18 March 2018)
- 5 wickets vs Pakistan, Kuala Lumpur (18 October 2018)
- 150 runs vs Pakistan, Kuala Lumpur (20 October 2018)
- 89 runs vs Pakistan, Kuala Lumpur (22 October 2018)
- 5 runs vs New Zealand, Perth (22 February 2019)
- 95 runs vs New Zealand, Adelaide (24 February 2019)
- 7 wickets vs New Zealand, Melbourne (3 March 2019)
- 2 wickets vs England, Leicester (2 July 2019)
- 4 wickets vs England, Leicester (4 July 2019)
- 194 runs vs England, Canterbury (7 July 2019)
- 178 runs vs West Indies, Coolidge (5 September 2019)
- 151 runs vs West Indies, North Sound (8 September 2019)
- 8 wickets vs West Indies, North Sound (11 September 2019)
- 157 runs vs Sri Lanka, Brisbane (5 October 2019)
- 110 runs vs Sri Lanka, Brisbane (7 October 2019)
- 9 wickets vs Sri Lanka, Brisbane (9 October 2019)
- 7 wickets vs New Zealand, Brisbane (3 October 2020)
- 4 wickets vs New Zealand, Brisbane (5 October 2020)
- 232 runs vs New Zealand, Brisbane (7 October 2020)
- 6 wickets vs New Zealand, Mount Maunganui (4 April 2021)
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