Perry becomes most capped woman cricketer for Australia
Cricket ‘legend’ and all-rounder Ellyse Perry on Saturday etched her name in the record books after she surpassed Alex Blackwell to become Australia’s most capped female player across all formats.
QUEENSLAND: Cricket 'legend' and all-rounder Ellyse Perry on Saturday etched her name in the record books after she surpassed Alex Blackwell to become Australia's most capped female player across all formats.
The 30-year-old broke Blackwell's record of 251 appearances for the Australian national women's team after she took the field against India Women for the second of three T20I games at the Carrara Oval.
It is Perry's 252nd match across all formats since making her debut in 2007. Alyssa Healy is currently on third place with 207 appearances while Meg Lanning occupies the fourth spot with 205 matches.
During the recently concluded four-day pink-ball Test, Perry had become the first Australian woman to take 300 international wickets.
The all-rounder is also the first woman with the double of 5000 runs and 300 wickets in international cricket. In her 14-year-long career, Perry has earned 9 Test caps, 118 ODI caps, and a whopping 124 T20I caps, which is most by an Australian female cricketer. IANS
