By There are so many great female cricketers in the world today and hence, it was difficult to limit the list of extraordinary female cricketers to just ten out of all the many talents. Here are the top 10 female cricketers you need to know.
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Ellyse Perry
Full name: Ellyse Alexandra Perry
Born: 3rd November 1990 (age 32)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm fast
Role: All-rounder
National side: Australia (2007–present)
Ellyse Perry is an Australian cricketer who has played for her country in cricket and association football. She became the youngest Australian debutant at age 16 for having to debut for both the national cricket squad and the national soccer squad and to have played in both ICC and FIFA World Cups. Her cricket career continues to thrive and is now regarded to be one of the greatest women’s players ever.
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Jhulan Goswami
Full name: Jhulan Nishit Goswami
Born: 25th November 1982 (age 40)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm medium-fast
Role: Bowler
National side: India (2002–2022)
Jhulan Goswami is an Indian former cricketer. Her cricket career lasted for two decades. She holds the record for seizing the highest number of wickets in Women’s One Day International Cricket. In 2007, she won the ICC Women’s Player of the Year award and was also the recipient of the M.A. Chidambaram trophy for Best Cricketer in the year 2011.
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Sarah Jane Taylor
Full name: Sarah Jane Taylor
Born: 20th May 1989 (age 33)
Batting: Right-handed
Role: Wicket-keeper-batter
National side: England (2006–2019)
Sarah Taylor is widely known as the quickest cricketer, male or female, to achieve their first cap in all 3 formats of international cricket, accomplishing so in nine days in a match against India in 2006.
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Mithali Raj
Full name: Mithali Dorai Raj
Born: 3rd December 1982 (age 40)[1]
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm leg break
Role: Top-order batter
National side: India (1999–2022)
Mithali Raj is the former cap of the India women’s national cricket squad from 2004–2022. She is the top chase-scorer in women’s international cricket and is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest female cricketers in the history of cricket.
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Katherine Helen Brunt
Full name: Katherine Helen Sciver-Brunt
Born: 2nd July 1985 (age 37)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm medium-fast
Role: Bowling all-rounder
National side: England (2004–present)
Katherine Brunt is an English cricketer who plays for Trent Rockets and England. She is a two-time World Cup champ and one T20 World Cup champ with England and is a four-time winner of England women’s Cricketer of the Year. She declared her retirement from participating in Test cricket in June 2022.
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Lisa Sthalekar
Full name: Lisa Carprini Sthalekar
Born: 13th August 1979 (age 43)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm off break
Role: All-rounder
National side: Australia (2001–2013)
Lisa Sthalekar is a former captain of the Australia women’s national cricket squad. Widely known as the first female to stoke 1,000 chases and seize 100 wickets in ODIs.
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Meg Lanning
Full name: Meghann Moira Lanning
Born: 25th March 1992 (age 30)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm medium
Role: Top-order batter
National side: Australia (2010–present)
Meg Lanning is an Australian cricketer who plays and serves as the captain of the national women’s squad. The Australian cricketer has been a part of seven victorious world championship campaigns and is a two-time Women’s Cricket World Cup and five-time ICC Women’s World Twenty20 champ.
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Stafanie Taylor
Full name: Stafanie Roxann Taylor
Born: 11th June 1991 (age 31)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm off break
Role: All-rounder
National side: West Indies (2008–present)
Stefanie Taylor, born on June 11, 1991, is a Jamaican cricketer who also served as a captain of the West Indies women’s cricket squad. She has participated for them more than 250 times since she made her debut back in 2008. She plays as a right-handed batter and right-arm off-break bowler. She won the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year in 201, and ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year in 2012, and she has also won the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year in 2015.
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Shashikala Siriwardene
Full name: Hettimulla Appuhamilage Shashikala Dedunu Siriwardene
Born: 14th February 1985 (age 38)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right arm off spin
Role: All-rounder
National side: Sri Lanka (2003–2020)
Shashikala Siriwardene is the only female cricketer to seize 100 wickets in WODIs for her national team Sri Lanka, and hence the only Sri Lankan female player to merge this with 1000-plus runs. She is also the all-time top wicket-taker for Sri Lanka in WT20I with seventy-seven scalps.
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Sana Mir
Full name: Sana Mir
Born: 5th January 1986 (age 37)
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm off break
Role: All-rounder
National side: Pakistan (2005–2019)
Sana Mir is a Pakistani former cricketer who also captained the Pakistan national women’s cricket squad in ODIs and T20Is. She is widely known as the first bowler for her national squad to seize 100 wickets in WODIs.
