Meghann Moira Lanning is an Australian cricketer who formerly captained the national women's team. Lanning has been a member of seven successful world championship campaigns, winning two Women's Cricket World Cup and five ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles. She holds the record for the most Women's One Day International centuries and is the first Australian to score 2,000 Twenty20 International runs.
Meg Lanning
Lanning at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup
Lanning during her maiden WBBL century, playing for the Perth Scorchers in 2019
Australia women's national cricket team
The Australian women's national cricket team represent Australia in international women's cricket. Currently captained by Alyssa Healy and coached by Shelley Nitschke, they are the top team in all world rankings assigned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the women's game.
The SCG hosted the second Test match in women's cricket history.
Betty Wilson was the first player to take ten wickets and score a century in the same Test.
A billboard from 1976 promotes the first-ever women's cricket match played at Lord's. Australia lost the ODI to England by eight wickets.
Lisa Sthalekar debuted for Australia in 2001. She became the first woman in the world to take 100 ODI wickets while scoring 1,000 ODI runs.
