New Zealand captain Amelia Kerr broke a world file in opposition to South Africa on Sunday, after a 3rd consecutive T20I fifty.
Amelia Kerr’s golden run of kind continues
Kerr’s New Zealand took on South Africa within the first T20I between the edges at Mount Maunganui. Batting at No.3, the White Ferns’ new skipper got here to face the second ball of the match after Izzy Gaze was run out for a diamond duck off the primary.
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She hit her first ball by means of the covers for 4, and picked up two fours and a six off Kayla Reyneke within the fourth over. By the tip of the powerplay, she was on 31 off 15. By the tenth over, she made her approach to fifty for the eighth time in her T20I profession. Consecutive boundaries every off Annerie Dercksen after which Ayabonga Khaka noticed her motor alongside as she and Georgia Plimmer placed on 146 for the second wicket.
That stand ended when Kerr top-edged Masabata Klaas to keeper Sinalo Jafta, to move again for 78 off 44; her seventh consecutive rating of 40 or extra in T20Is, and her third fifty-plus rating in a row after making 101* (51) and 82 (52) in opposition to Zimbabwe in her first two T20Is since taking on from Sophie Devine as New Zealand’s everlasting all-format captain. Kerr additionally made 140 runs and took 16 wickets in three ODIs in opposition to Zimbabwe.
These three T20Is, together with scores of 35 and 5 in 2023 and 2024 as a stand-in captain imply Kerr’s tally as a T20I captain stands at 301 runs; essentially the most after 5 T20I innings for any participant, man or girl. Romania’s Rebecca Blake held the ladies’s file earlier than this, with 250. Devine, Kerr’s predecessor, can also be within the prime ten with 217 runs in her first 5 innings: she even scored 77, 105 and 75 not out in her subsequent three matches.
Women’s T20Is: Most runs in first 5 innings as captain
| Player | Team | Runs | Avg | SR | 50s | 100s |
| Amelia Kerr | New Zealand | 301 | 75.3 | 161.8 | 2 | 1 |
| Rebecca Blake | Romania | 250 | 62.5 | 140.4 | 0 | 1 |
| Laura Wolvaardt | South Africa | 234 | 46.8 | 123.2 | 2 | 0 |
| Babette de Leede | Netherlands | 221 | 73.7 | 125.6 | 2 | 0 |
| Tharanga Gajanayake | Bahrain | 221 | 110.5 | 100.9 | 2 | 0 |
| Sophie Devine | New Zealand | 217 | 54.3 | 185.5 | 3 | 0 |
| Iresha Chathurani | Cyprus | 202 | – | 103.6 | 1 | 0 |
| Rita Musamali | Uganda | 187 | 93.5 | 108.7 | 0 | 1 |
| Charlotte Edwards | England | 181 | 36.2 | 132.1 | 2 | 0 |
| Divya Saxena | Canada | 174 | 43.5 | 100.6 | 1 | 0 |
-The corresponding males’s file is held by Ma’ara Ave of the Cook Islands, with 277 runs. Quinton de Kock (South Africa, 262) is the topper amongst Full Members.
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