Women’s cricket records: the biggest numbers across Test, ODI and T20I

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. Mithali Raj scored more one-day runs than anyone. Jhulan Goswami took more wickets than any woman in the game’s history. Amelia Kerr owns the highest one-day innings. Kiran Baluch holds the highest Test score. And Australia have won more World Cups than the rest of the world combined can easily catch. 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.

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	Suzie Bates (New Zealand)	4,758
Most career wickets	Nida Dar (Pakistan)	140
Highest team total	Argentina	427/1 v Chile, 2023
Highest individual score	Lucia Taylor (Argentina)	169 v Chile, 2023

Suzie Bates has been New Zealand’s mainstay for the best part of two decades and leads all T20I run-scorers with 4,758. Nida Dar of Pakistan became the format’s leading wicket-taker in 2024, passing Australia’s Megan Schutt, and has 140 to her name. 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 scored more international runs than any woman in history, 10,868 across 22 years. Jhulan Goswami retired in 2022 with 355 international wickets, the most by any bowler in the women’s game across the three formats. 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 Smriti Mandhana has drawn level with Meg Lanning on 17 international centuries, the joint most by any batter. Lanning has retired; Mandhana has not, so that one may not stay shared for long.

Who has scored the most runs in women’s cricket?

Mithali Raj of India, with 10,868 runs across Tests, ODIs and T20Is between 1999 and 2022. Suzie Bates and Charlotte Edwards are the only other players to have passed 10,000.

Who has taken the most wickets in women’s cricket?

Jhulan Goswami of India, with 355 international wickets. Her 255 in one-day cricket alone sits 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.

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