ICC World Cup: Whether it is Australian men’s or women’s cricket team, the dominance of both is clearly seen in ICC World Cricket. In the final match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup played in South Africa, the Australian women’s team defeated the host country by 19 runs and managed to capture the trophy for the sixth time. With this, Meg Lanning, the captain of the Kangaroo women’s team, has also left behind former veteran Australian men’s team captain Ricky Ponting in terms of winning the ICC trophy for the most number of times.
Meg Lanning won the 2014 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup while captaining the team for the first time. After this, in the final match of the 2016 T20 World Cup, the team had to face defeat against the West Indies. At the same time, in the 2018 T20 World Cup, the Australian women’s team made a spectacular comeback under the captaincy of Meg Lanning and succeeded in winning the cup.
On the other hand, in the year 2020, when the T20 World Cup was played in Australia itself, the host country won the trophy by defeating India by 85 runs in its final match. At the same time, with winning this T20 World Cup, under the captaincy of Meg Lanning, the team has won the ICC Trophy for the fourth time. Apart from this, when the Australian team won the Women’s ODI World Cup in the year 2022, then the responsibility of captaining the team was on the shoulders of Meg Lanning.
With this, Meg Lanning has now become the first captain to win the ICC trophy 5 times. Before him, former Australian veteran Ricky Ponting had won the ICC Trophy 4 times as captain. At the same time, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the former captain of the Indian team, has managed to win the ICC trophy 3 times as captain.
Meg Lanning also became the first player to captain in 100 international T20 matches
Meg Lanning has made another record in her name, in which she has now become the first player in world cricket to play 100 international matches as captain. Under his captaincy, where the Australian women’s team has won 76 matches so far, the team has faced defeat in only 18 matches, while no result could be found in 5 matches.
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