Women’s cricket records: the biggest numbers across Test, ODI and T20I
From Smriti Mandhana’s record run tally and Deepti Sharma’s wickets to Australia’s grip on the World Cup, here are the biggest records in women’s cricket across all three formats.
Jul 7, 2026 · Updated Oct 3, 2026
Australia lifted the Women’s T20 World Cup for a seventh time at Lord’s in July 2026, a win that pushed their combined haul of global titles to 14 and sent everyone back to the record books to work out just how far ahead they sit. Women’s cricket records run deeper and are more competitive than a casual fan might expect. Here are the numbers that matter most across Test, one-day and Twenty20 cricket, and the players who own them.
The headline women’s cricket records
If you want the quick version, these are the marks that top every list. Smriti Mandhana has the most international runs and the most international centuries. Deepti Sharma has taken more international wickets than any woman. Mithali Raj still holds the one-day run record and Jhulan Goswami the one-day wicket record. Amelia Kerr owns the highest one-day innings. Kiran Baluch holds the highest Test score. And Australia have won 14 World Cups, more than every other country put together. The detail behind each of those sits below, format by format.
Australia’s grip on the World Cup
No conversation about women’s cricket records starts anywhere but Australia. They have won the 50-over World Cup seven times and the T20 World Cup seven times, a total of 14 world titles that no other nation comes close to. Their T20 crowns landed in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2023 and 2026, the last of them a seven-wicket win over England in front of a packed Lord’s.
England, the next most successful side, have four 50-over titles and a single T20 World Cup, which they won in the inaugural 2009 edition. That gap is the single clearest statistic in the women’s game, and it is the backdrop to almost every individual record in this list, because so many of the players who hold them wore Australian gold.
Women’s ODI records
The one-day international is the format with the longest women’s history, and its records read like a roll call of the sport’s biggest names.
| Record | Holder | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Most career runs | Mithali Raj (India) | 7,805 |
| Most career wickets | Jhulan Goswami (India) | 255 |
| Highest individual score | Amelia Kerr (New Zealand) | 232* v Ireland, 2018 |
| Highest team total | New Zealand | 491/4 v Ireland, 2018 |
| Most centuries | Meg Lanning (Australia) | 15 |
Mithali Raj carried India’s batting for more than two decades and finished with 7,805 one-day runs, a total no one else has matched. Jhulan Goswami’s 255 wickets sit an enormous 64 clear of the next name on the list; she was the first bowler to reach 250 in the format, and she bowled her final over in international cricket at Lord’s in 2022. Amelia Kerr was only 17 when she made 232 not out against Ireland in Dublin in 2018, the youngest player of either sex to reach a double century in a one-day international. Earlier on that same tour New Zealand had racked up 491 for 4, built on 151 from Suzie Bates and 121 from Maddy Green, the highest team total the women’s one-day game has seen. Meg Lanning’s 15 hundreds are the most centuries by any batter, one clear of India’s Smriti Mandhana and West Indies’ Hayley Matthews, who are both on 14.
Women’s T20I records
Twenty20 is where the newer nations have rewritten the record sheet, sometimes in eye-catching fashion. The bare numbers can be misleading, so context matters here.
| Record | Holder | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Most career runs | Smriti Mandhana (India) | 4,867 |
| Most career wickets | Deepti Sharma (India) | 189 |
| Highest team total | Argentina | 427/1 v Chile, 2023 |
| Highest individual score | Lucia Taylor (Argentina) | 169 v Chile, 2023 |
Smriti Mandhana leads the T20I run-scorers with 4,867, ahead of New Zealand’s Suzie Bates on 4,758 and India’s Harmanpreet Kaur on 4,346. Deepti Sharma is the format’s leading wicket-taker with 189, clear of Thailand’s Thipatcha Putthawong (173) and Rwanda’s Henriette Ishimwe (164); Australia’s Megan Schutt (152) and Pakistan’s Nida Dar (144) are next. The team and individual batting records both come from an Associate mismatch, Argentina’s 427 for 1 against Chile in 2023, in which Lucia Taylor hit 169. Among the leading Test nations the ceiling is far lower and the bowling much tighter: Meg Lanning’s 133 not out against England in 2019 is one of the biggest T20I innings by a Test-playing side. That gap is what makes the Argentina numbers a curiosity rather than a true measure of the format’s best batting.
Women’s Test records
Women play Test cricket rarely, so its records stretch back across decades and change hands only now and then. That scarcity gives them a particular weight.
| Record | Holder | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Highest individual score | Kiran Baluch (Pakistan) | 242 v West Indies, 2004 |
| Highest team total | India | 603/6 dec v South Africa, 2024 |
| Most career runs | Jan Brittin (England) | 1,935 |
| Best innings bowling | Neetu David (India) | 8/53 v England, 1995 |
Kiran Baluch’s 242 against the West Indies in Karachi in 2004 has stood as the highest score in women’s Test history for more than 20 years. India’s 603 for 6 declared against South Africa in Chennai in 2024 is the highest team total, a sign of how much the modern game has grown when the red ball does come out. Jan Brittin’s 1,935 runs remain the most by any woman in Tests, and Neetu David’s 8 for 53 is the best return in a single innings. Pakistan’s Shaiza Khan took the best match figures, 13 for 226 against the West Indies in 2004.
The players who defined an era
Some careers cut across every format. Mithali Raj held the record for international runs for years and finished on 10,868 across 22 years; Smriti Mandhana has since gone past her and has 11,066 (788 in Tests, 5,411 in ODIs and 4,867 in T20Is). Jhulan Goswami retired in 2022 with 355 international wickets, also long the record, and Deepti Sharma has now overtaken her with 380 (25 in Tests, 166 in ODIs and 189 in T20Is). Ellyse Perry became the first woman to pass 7,000 international runs and 300 wickets, an all-round record that reflects why Australia have been so hard to beat; she also holds the highest Test score by an Australian woman, 213 not out, and has seven T20 World Cup winner’s medals. And Mandhana now has 18 international centuries (two in Tests, 14 in ODIs and two in T20Is), the most by any woman, one more than Meg Lanning and Hayley Matthews.
Who has scored the most runs in women’s cricket?
Smriti Mandhana of India, with 11,066 runs across Tests, ODIs and T20Is as of October 2026. Mithali Raj (10,868), Suzie Bates (10,740), Charlotte Edwards (10,273) and Stafanie Taylor (10,062) are the others to have passed 10,000.
Who has taken the most wickets in women’s cricket?
Deepti Sharma of India, with 380 international wickets as of October 2026, ahead of Jhulan Goswami’s 355. Goswami’s 255 in one-day cricket is still the ODI record, well clear of the field.
Which team has won the most Women’s World Cups?
Australia, with 14 titles in all: seven 50-over World Cups and seven T20 World Cups, the most recent at Lord’s in 2026.