Australian skipper Meg Lanning now has the very best variety of main Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) trophies as a captain within the historical past of the game. Lanning completed this milestone throughout her facet’s ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup ultimate towards South Africa on Sunday. Within the match, after posting 156/6 in 20 overs whereas batting first after profitable the toss, the Aussies had been in a position to defend the overall and hold South Africa away from their first-ever world title throughout males’s and ladies’s senior groups, defeating them by 19 runs.

Lanning as a skipper has gained a complete of 5 tournaments. These tournaments embrace the 2022 version of the ICC Cricket World Cup and 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2023 editions of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup. This makes her essentially the most adorned captain within the historical past of the game.

Behind Lanning is her compatriot and legendary Australian batter Ricky Ponting, who took his facet to new heights in males’s cricket. Underneath his management, Australia gained 4 main titles, which incorporates two back-to-back ICC Cricket World Cup triumphs in 2003 and 2007 and ICC Champions Trophy wins in 2006 and 2009.

On the third place is famous Indian wicketkeeper-batter and captain MS Dhoni, who’s the one captain to win all three main ICC tournaments. Underneath his management, India gained the first-ever ICC T20 World Cup in 2007. They adopted it by profitable their second ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, bringing the trophy again house after 28 years. India’s final triumph below his captaincy was the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, which additionally stays the ultimate main ICC title India has gained to today.

Australia has gained its twenty first title of their wealthy cricketing historical past.

The ladies’s facet has captured the 50-over World Cup seven occasions, within the years 1978, 1982, 1988, 1997, 2005, 2013, 2022. It has additionally captured six T20 World Cup titles, in years 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2023. This makes it 13 title wins in girls’s cricket.

The Australian males’s workforce additionally has had lots of success. It has gained the 50-over World Cup 5 occasions, in years, 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015. It additionally gained its solitary ICC Males’s T20 World Cup title in 2021. It has additionally gained two ICC Champions Trophy titles, in 2006 and 2009. This makes it a complete of eight titles in males’s cricket.

Coming to Lanning, she had a strong event with the bat, scoring 149 runs in 5 innings at a median of 49.66. Her highest particular person rating within the event is 49*.

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)

Featured Video Of The Day

Neeraj Kumar: COA Have been Not In Tackling Corruption