Pakistan’s Kiran Baluch holds the highest individual score in women’s Test cricket: 242, made against West Indies in a one-off Test in Karachi in March 2004. It has stood for more than twenty years.

The ten scores below are not just the top ten — they are every double-century ever made in a women’s Test. The eleventh-highest score in the format’s history is 193, so the list and the double-century club are the same thing. Two of the ten belong to India: Mithali Raj’s 214 and Shafali Verma’s 205.

Highest individual scores in women’s Test cricket

Rank Player Team Score Balls 4s 6s Against Ground Year
1 Kiran Baluch Pakistan 242 488 38 0 West Indies Karachi 2004
2 Mithali Raj India 214 407 19 0 England Taunton 2002
3 Ellyse Perry Australia 213* 374 27 1 England North Sydney 2017
4 Annabel Sutherland Australia 210 256 27 2 South Africa Perth 2024
5 Karen Rolton Australia 209* 313 29 1 England Leeds 2001
6 Tammy Beaumont England 208 331 27 0 Australia Nottingham 2023
7 Shafali Verma India 205 197 23 8 South Africa Chennai 2024
8= Kirsty Flavell New Zealand 204 — — — England Scarborough 1996
8= Michelle Goszko Australia 204 345 24 0 England Shenley 2001
10 Joanne Broadbent Australia 200 476 25 0 England Guildford 1998

Ranks are shared where the score is equal. Ball-by-ball detail was not recorded for the 1996 Test.

Kiran Baluch — 242 v West Indies, Karachi, 2004

Opening the batting in the only Test of West Indies’ tour of Pakistan, Baluch faced 488 balls and hit 38 fours. Pakistan declared on 426/7. West Indies were bowled out for 147 and asked to follow on, and although they responded with 440 all out, Pakistan were 58/2 chasing 162 when the match was drawn.

Mithali Raj — 214 v England, Taunton, 2002

Raj held the record before Baluch took it. Batting at No.4 in the second Test of India’s tour of England, she made 214 off 407 balls with 19 fours. England were bowled out for 329 in their first innings and India replied with 467; England then declared on 198/6 and the match was drawn.

Ellyse Perry — 213 not out v England, North Sydney, 2017

Perry’s unbeaten 213 came in the one-off Test of England’s tour of Australia, off 374 balls with 27 fours and a six. Australia bowled England out for 280, declared on 448/9, and England reached 206/2 second time round before the draw.

Annabel Sutherland — 210 v South Africa, Perth, 2024

Sutherland made 210 off 256 balls at the WACA in February 2024, with 27 fours and two sixes — the second-quickest double-century on this list, behind only Shafali Verma’s four months later.

Karen Rolton — 209 not out v England, Leeds, 2001

Rolton’s unbeaten 209 off 313 balls at Headingley in July 2001 included 29 fours — the second-most on this list, behind Kiran Baluch’s 38. She and Perry are the only two to finish not out.

Tammy Beaumont — 208 v Australia, Nottingham, 2023

The only England batter on the list. Beaumont’s 208 at Trent Bridge in June 2023 took 331 balls and 27 fours, and it is the highest score by an England woman in Tests. The next-best by an England batter is 189, made against New Zealand in 1935.

Shafali Verma — 205 v South Africa, Chennai, 2024

Shafali’s 205 is the outlier on this list. She faced 197 balls — fewer than anyone else here by 59, and less than half of what Baluch, Raj and Broadbent needed — hitting 23 fours and eight sixes — more than every other innings on this list combined, on the figures recorded. It came in June 2024 at the M A Chidambaram Stadium, and it remains the most recent double-century in women’s Test cricket.

Kirsty Flavell — 204 v England, Scarborough, 1996

Flavell got there first. Her 204 for New Zealand at North Marine Road in June 1996 was the first double-century by any woman in a Test match, and it stood as the record for six years until Mithali Raj passed it. She appears in some record books under her maiden name, Bond.

Michelle Goszko — 204 v England, Shenley, 2001

Goszko matched Flavell’s 204 five years later, off 345 balls with 24 fours, on Australia’s 2001 tour of England — the same tour on which Karen Rolton made 209 not out.

Joanne Broadbent — 200 v England, Guildford, 1998

The slowest of the ten and the only one to stop exactly on the mark: Broadbent batted 476 balls for her 200 at Guildford in August 1998.

The double-century club, in numbers

Ten innings by ten different batters, and five of the ten belong to Australia — Perry, Sutherland, Rolton, Goszko and Broadbent. India have two, and Pakistan, England and New Zealand one each. Six of the ten were made against England, more than every other side has conceded combined. None has been scored since Shafali Verma’s in June 2024.

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