split of Alyssa Healy Meg Lanning Ellyse Perry

A trio of Australian sportswomen storming ahead in their profession have become joint holders of the most cricket World Cup final appearances record.

Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry have each taken part in seven T20 or 50-over cricket World Cup finals – securing themselves a place in history.

Impressively, Healy won five of the six ICC Women’s T20 World Cup finals she played in between 2010 and 2021.

She also took part in the 2022 50-over World Cup, hammering a record 170 in the process.

The win over England at Hagley Oval in Christchurch, New Zealand, also gave her country the most team wins of the ICC Women's World Cup with seven.

Alyssa Healy

They added to their collection of wins, previously lifting the trophy in 1978, 1982, 1988, 1997, 2005 and 2013.

Lanning and Perry have both played in five T20 finals and two 50-over finals. 

Lanning captained Australia in four T20 finals between 2014 and 2020, winning three, and also led her country to victory at the 2022 Women’s World Cup.

The trio have left the men in the dust, with the most cricket World Cup appearances they've managed standing at five.

Four Sri Lankan men - Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene, Lasith Malinga and Kumar Sangakkara –all played at the 2009, 2012 and 2014 ICC T20 World Cup finals and the 50-over ICC World Cup finals in 2007 and 2011.

Healy, 32, also plays for New South Wales in domestic cricket, and the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL.

Meg Lanning

The batter and wicket-keeper made her international debut in February 2010.

She’s also previously held the Guinness World Records title for highest catch of a cricket ball. Her record of 82.5 m (270 ft 8 in) stood from January to July 2019.

The current record is 119.86 m (393 ft 2.897 in), held by Thimothy Shanon Jebaseelan (Australia).

Healy has many other records to her name:

Most runs scored by a player in a Twenty20 International (female) - 148

Most hundreds in the Women's Big Bash League – 4

Most runs scored by a player in an ICC World Cup final - 170

Most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in a Twenty20 International career (female) – 92

Ellyse Perry

Lanning, 30, is the current captain of her national women’s team. She’s also captain of Victoria in the Women’s National Cricket League and the Melbourne Stars in the Women’s Big Bash League.

Lanning has quite the collection of record titles too:

Fastest One-Day International hundred (female) – 45 balls

Most hundreds scored in a One-Day International career (female) – 12

Perry, 32, has represented her country in both cricket and football (soccer). Debuting at the age of 16, she became the youngest Australian to play international cricket and the first to have appeared in both ICC and FIFA World Cups.

She currently plays for the national team as well as the Sydney Sixers, Victoria and Birmingham Phoenix, a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in Birmingham, UK.

Other records held by the Australia Women’s team are:

Most consecutive One-Day International wins and most consecutive One-Day International wins (female) – 26

Most runs scored in a women’s One-Day International (aggregate) – 577 (joint with New Zealand)

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