Meg Lanning creates history, becomes fastest to score 9000 T20 runs

Australian legend Meg Lanning has added one other feather to her illustrious profession as the previous Aussie skipper turned the fastest girl participant on the planet to score 9000 runs in T20s. Lanning achieved the particular feat throughout the Delhi Capitals recreation towards Gujarat Giants within the ongoing Women’s Premier League 2024. 

Lanning was inches away from the milestone earlier than the sport and received there in fashion along with her second fifty of the season. She made 55 from 41 balls as the previous Aussie star performed an anchor position in her crew’s first innings score of 163. En route to this knock, Lanning broke New Zealand participant Sophie Devine’s report for fastest 9000 runs in T20s. 

Fastest to 9000 T20 runs in ladies’s cricket:

1 – Meg Lanning: 289 innings

2 – Sophie Devine: 297 innings

3 – Beth Mooney: 299 innings

4 – Suzie Bates: 323 innings 

The 31-year-old struck 6 fours and 1 six in her stroke-filled knock. She misplaced her opening companion Shafali Verma early however that didn’t derail her. She dropped anchor and located boundaries on a number of events. Alice Capsey additionally chipped in with a robust cameo of 27 from 17 balls with Annabel Sutherland and Shikha Pandey scoring useful 20 from 12 balls and 14 from 8 balls, respectively.

Lanning retired from International cricket after a 13-year illustrious in International cricket. She was the chief of probably the most harmful sides (each males’s and girls’s cricket). She now performs within the international T20 leagues together with the Women’s Premier League. Lanning is the chief of the Capitals aspect and helped them end runners-up within the first version of the event. 

Delhi misplaced their first recreation to Mumbai Indians however made a thumping comeback by successful the subsequent two video games in a row earlier than setting a date with the Giants on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

Delhi Capitals’ Playing XI:

Meg Lanning (c), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Jemimah Rodrigues, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Arundhati Reddy, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Titas Sadhu, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey

Gujarat Giants’ Playing XI:

Laura Wolvaardt, Beth Mooney (c & wk), Phoebe Litchfield, Ashleigh Gardner, Veda Krishnamurthy, Dayalan Hemalatha, Kathryn Bryce, Tanuja Kanwar, Tarannum Pathan, Meghna Singh, Mannat Kashyap