In a league of power hitters, stars on the rise, and batting fireworks, there is one thing that’s never changed over the years. Beth Mooney crossing 400 runs in a WBBL season. 10 times in 11 seasons.
In a format known for its unpredictability, Mooney has somehow made elite performance feel routine. Her dedication featuring her season-by-season tally almost reads like a timeline of reliability 400 (2015–16), 482 (2016–17), 465 (2017–18), 486 (2018–19), and then that seismic 743 in 2019 that truly announced her as the league’s most dependable force.
From 2020 onward too, she barely slips, continually landing in the 400–550 run zone despite evolving attacks and changing team dynamics. What jumps out from this isn’t just the numbers, but the pattern. Regardless of the season conditions, team form, or tournament narrative, Mooney somehow manages to deliver. Even the dip years 434 in 2022 and 386 in 2024 are still solid contributions by any top order standard.
Yet, for Mooney, they look like rare outliers rather than declines. The latest entry, 440*, simply reinforces what fans have come to expect: she isn’t slowing down. Across 153 WBBL matches, Beth Mooney has amassed an extraordinary 5,491 runs, a tally that places her in a league of her own in women’s T20 cricket. What makes this total even more remarkable is the quality behind the quantity she averages a stunning 46, a number almost unheard of in T20 leagues.
Combine that with a strike rate of 125, and you get the perfect T20 opener: someone who not only scores big but does so at a healthy tempo, rotating strike, finding gaps, and accelerating when needed. These numbers reflect a batter who has mastered the balance between stability and aggression, turning consistency into her most powerful weapon season after season.
These numbers also show the evolution of her career. Early seasons show her breaking into the league’s elite with steady, compiled runs. But as the years progress, those runs transform into match-winning, tournament defining contributions. The huge 743-run season is the turning point proof that she could not only anchor innings but completely command tournaments. Since then, Mooney has become the yardstick.
But perhaps the most impressive thing about the numbers, though, is how quietly she has collected them. There have been louder WBBL seasons, flashier knocks and viral moments, yet Mooney has built a legacy on reliability rather than on noise.
It tells a story longer than individual innings. It represents an athlete who has figured out her game so thoroughly that excellence has become her baseline. Ten 400 plus runs seasons in a competition as intense as the WBBL is not just a statistic, it’s a standard that may not be matched for years. And with 440* already on the board this season, Beth Mooney remains what she always has been: the WBBL’s most reliable run machine.
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