England’s Sophie Ecclestone break 21-year-old all-time record in ODIs

England’s left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone entered the record books in the third and last ODI towards Pakistan performed on May 28 (Wednesday) performed on the County Ground in Chelmsford. She picked up three wickets for simply 15 runs and accomplished 100 wickets in the ODI format in the sixty fourth match of her already superb profession.

She reached the landmark of 100 scalps in the format in 63 innings turning into the quickest ever to the milestone in Women’s cricket. This record earlier belonged to Australia’s Cathryn Fitzpatrick who had accomplished a century of wickets in the 50-over format in 64 innings again in February 2003. 

Sophie is world’s primary ODI and T20I bowler for the time being and on the age of solely 25, she has already performed 64 ODIs and 81 T20Is accounting for greater than 100 wickets in each codecs. Thanks to her spell, in the third ODI towards Pakistan, England comfortably defended the 302-run complete profitable the match by a large margin of 178 runs. In truth, it was a collective effort from England’s bowling unit as properly with Lauren Bell and Nat-Sciver Brunt accounting for a few wickets every too. 

Fastest to 100 ODI wickets in girls’s cricket

Overall, Ecclestone picked up six wickets, the very best in the sequence by any bowler and gained the participant of the sequence award for her efforts. As for the match, Nat-Sciver gained the participant of the match award for smashing an unbeaten 124 off 117 balls that helped the hosts put behind a comparatively sluggish begin (70/3 in 14th over) and submit a complete in extra of 300 runs in their 50 overs. 

In response, other than Muneeba Ali (47) and Aliya Riaz (35), not one of the Pakistan batters may even cross the 15-run mark as they crumbled for under 124 runs in the thirtieth over of the innings. Pakistan’s tour of England concluded with zero wins for the visiting facet at the same time as England batted first in all of the matches (3 T20Is and a couple of ODIs with one match getting washed out).