Australia`s Meg Lanning smashes T20 records in women cricket against Ireland

Sydney: Australian opener Meg Lanning has etched her name in the Twenty20 history of women`s cricket by smashing the highest individual score in the format in her team`s record-breaking 78-run win over Ireland in the women`s World T20.

Lanning became just the third woman, and the first Australian, to pass three figures in a T20 international, smashing the Irish attack at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on her way to a superb 126 off 65 balls. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, two-time defending champions Australia`s total of 4-191 was the highest ever in a women`s WorldT20 match, surpassing New Zealand`s 5-180 against the West Indies in 2010, and Ireland were never in the hunt - finishing at 7-113. The report mentioned that the 78-run margin of victory was also the biggest in women`s World T20 history while Lanning also became the first Australian woman cricketer to pass 1000 T20 career runs. Other records made in the match: First Australian female to score a T20 century Highest-ever score by an Australian female in T20 (previously 96 no by Karen Rolton against England in 2005) Highest ever female T20 score (previous record was 116no by South Africa`s Shandre Fritz)ost fours (18) by a female in T20 internationals Most combined boundaries (22, consisting of 18x4s, 4x6s) by a female in T20 internationals.