With the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 Final triumph of the Royal Challengers Bangalore over the Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets, Ellyse Perry adds another feather in her decorated cap with another crucial innings of 35* runs in the final to help RCB win the WPL title after a near close elimination in the league stage. With that, she now is the first player to win all the T20/ODI leagues and tournaments she has ever been a part of.
Talking about the achievements in the form of trophies and awards Ellyse Perry has won, there are several of them to talk about.
Starting from the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup which she has won twice in 2013 and 2022, alongside also winning the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup for a record 6 times i.e. 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2023, and the Commonwealth Games (CWG) Gold Birmingham 2022.
In franchise T20 leagues she has won the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) twice in 2016/17 and as a captain in 2017/18 for the Sydney Sixers. The latest is the WPL 2024 with the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the very first time.
Tournaments won by Ellyse Perry
2x Women’s World Cup winner
6x Women’s T20 World Cup winner
CWG 2022
11x Women’s National Cricket League winner
2x WBBL winner
2x Australian Women’s T20 Cup winner
WPL 2024 winner
Apart from the tournaments Ellyse Perry has won, there stands a long list of individual awards that she has won.
Starting from internationals, Ellyse Perry has won the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award (ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year) thrice in her illustrious career. Apart from winning the ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2019, she also won the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Decade 2010-2019, ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade 2010-2019, and ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade 2010-2019.
Notably, she was awarded the Player of the Match in her 1st ever ICC tournament final in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2010 for her amazing spell of 4-0-18-3 guiding Australia to their maiden T20I title by 3 runs against New Zealand.
Individual Awards won by Ellyse Perry
3x Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award winner
Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2019
Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade 2011-2020
Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade 2011-2020
POTM in Women’s T20 WC 2010 Final
3x Player of the Series (POTS) in Women’s Ashes
3x Belinda Clark Award winner
Player of the Tournament (POTT) in Women’s National Cricket League 2015-16
POTM in Women’s National Cricket League 2008-09 Final
POTT in WBBL 2018-19
3x Belinda Clark Medal winner
2x Sydney Sixers POTS
WPL 2024 Orange Cap (Leading run-scorer)
Primarily a defender, Perry played her first match for the Australian national soccer team against Hong Kong when she was 16 years old, and also scored a goal in the second minute of the match. Perry scored her second goal at the international level in the 2008 AFC Women’s Asian Cup in a match against South Korea.
Football Awards and Trophies
W-League Premiership 2011-12 winner
W-League Young Player of the Year 2009
Goal for Australia in AFC Women’s Asia Cup 2008
Goal for Australia in FIFA Women’s World Cup 2011
