Highest margin of victory by runs in a Cricket World Cup match (female)

Australia (412 for 3) routed Denmark (49 all out) by 363 runs at the Middle Income Group Ground in Mumbai, India, on 16 December 1997. Featuring captain Belinda Clark’s 229 not out – the first double-hundred in men’s or women’s One-Day Internationals (ODI) and the highest individual score in a women’s ODI until Amelia Kerr’s 232 not out in 2018 – no team before or since has got close to matching Australia’s crushing win at the Women’s Cricket World Cup. As of 2023, 363 remains an incredible 108 runs higher than the distant runner-up: the Southern Stars’ own 255-run shellacking of the Netherlands in Perth, Australia, on 29 November 1988.

Since the 1997 Women’s World Cup, the biggest win at the tournament has been New Zealand’s 223-run demolition of Pakistan in Sydney, Australia, on 19 March 2009.

No match in the history of the Men’s Cricket World Cup has produced a bigger margin of victory than Australia’s win against Denmark; on 25 October 2023, Australia men thrashed the Netherlands by 309 runs in Delhi, India – still 54 runs shy of Clark and co.’s heroic effort in Mumbai.

Australia’s women would go on to win the fourth of their unrivalled seven World Cup titles (1978–2022) in 1997, adding to their hat-trick of wins in 1978, 1982 and 1988. Further success came their way in 2005, 2013 and 2022.