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Betty Wilson
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Betty Wilson was the first cricketer, man or woman, to score a century and take ten wickets in the same Test, against England at St Kilda in 1958, including a hat-trick. Australian commentators of the time compared her to Bradman. Her all-round feat showed that women's Test cricket could produce performances no men's record had matched.
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Rachael Heyhoe Flint
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Heyhoe Flint helped organise the first Women's World Cup in 1973, two years before the first men's tournament, and captained England to win it. She made 179 at the Oval in 1976 to save a Test, and later campaigned successfully for women to be admitted as members of the MCC in 1999. Few players have changed both the sport's results and its institutions.
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Enid Bakewell
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At Edgbaston in 1979 against the West Indies, Bakewell scored 68 and 112 not out and took ten wickets with her left-arm spin, an all-round Test performance still almost unmatched. She also won the 1973 World Cup with England. For anyone in Birmingham, it is worth knowing that one of the great Test all-round displays happened down the road.
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Belinda Clark
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Belinda Clark made the first double century in one-day international cricket, man or woman, with 229 not out against Denmark in 1997, 13 years before Sachin Tendulkar's. She captained Australia to two World Cups and then led the merger of the women's and men's governing bodies in Australia as an administrator. The professional structure Australian women now enjoy partly traces back to her.
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Mithali Raj
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Mithali Raj played international cricket for over two decades and retired as the leading run-scorer in women's one-day internationals, with more than 7,000 runs. She captained India to two World Cup finals, in 2005 and 2017, and the 2017 run is often credited with creating India's modern women's cricket audience. Her consistency set the standard for what a women's batting career could be.
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Charlotte Edwards
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Edwards captained England to the 2009 World Cup and World Twenty20 double and the Ashes, and was the leading run-scorer in women's international cricket for years. She captained England when central contracts for women were introduced in 2014, a turning point for the professional game. Since retiring she has coached and later took charge of England's women's team.
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Jhulan Goswami
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Goswami retired in 2022 as the leading wicket-taker in women's one-day internationals, a genuine fast bowler from a part of India where girls' cricket had little structure. She was ICC women's cricketer of the year in 2007 and played in five World Cups. Her career proved that India could produce, and sustain, a world-class woman fast bowler.
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Stafanie Taylor
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Stafanie Taylor was the West Indies' batting and spin-bowling mainstay for more than a decade and the first player to be named ICC women's cricketer of the year twice. She captained them to the 2016 World Twenty20 title, beating Australia in the final, a breakthrough for a team with far fewer resources. Her all-round consistency is the core of West Indies women's modern history.
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Meg Lanning
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Lanning captained Australia to an era of dominance, including a record run of 26 consecutive one-day international wins and multiple World Cup and T20 World Cup titles, and she set the record for most centuries in women's one-day internationals. Her fast, wristy strokeplay pushed women's scoring rates upward. She retired from international cricket in 2023, aged only 31.
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Ellyse Perry
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Perry debuted for Australia at 16 in both cricket and football and became the first cricketer, man or woman, to reach 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in T20 internationals. Her 213 not out in the 2017 day-night Ashes Test showed long-form patience few expected. She made the full-time, two-discipline athlete a visible model for a professional era.
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Harmanpreet Kaur
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Harmanpreet's 171 not out from 115 balls against Australia in the 2017 World Cup semi-final is the innings that turned Indian women's cricket into a mass audience sport. Eight years later she captained India to their first Women's World Cup title, in front of a home crowd in Navi Mumbai in November 2025. Few players have shaped both the moment and the result.
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Chamari Athapaththu
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Athapaththu's 178 not out against Australia at the 2017 World Cup, for a Sri Lankan side that rarely competed with the top teams, announced a player who could take on anyone. She later captained Sri Lanka to the 2024 Women's Asia Cup title, beating India in the final. Her aggressive left-handed batting gave Sri Lankan girls a star of their own.
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Laura Wolvaardt
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Wolvaardt was a key batter as South Africa reached their first senior World Cup final in 2023, then captained them to the 2024 T20 World Cup final and the 2025 one-day World Cup final, where she was top scorer of the tournament and made a hundred in the final. Her classical technique makes her one of the most reliable batters in the game. South Africa now expect to reach finals.
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Smriti Mandhana
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Mandhana's elegant left-handed batting has made her one of the most prolific openers in women's white-ball cricket and one of India's biggest sports stars. Her 127 in a day-night Test against Australia at Carrara in 2021, India's first pink-ball Test, showed she could adapt to the long form. She was part of India's 2025 World Cup win and is a central figure of the Women's Premier League era.
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