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Top 5 Run-Scorers At ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 1973

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Today we bring you the cricketers with the most runs at Womens Cricket World Cup 1973. The Women’s World Cup was the first World Cup tournament in Cricket, and it started the legacy for years to maintain and a tournament which will bring not only the much necessary attention of spectators but it would go on to become the platform chosen by the top performers across the world, a platform where there performances would get into records and into the memories of billions of fans. Here we talk about the Cricketers who made to the list of most runs at Womens Cricket World Cup 1973.

5. Jackie Potter (Australia Women)

Left-handed WK-batswoman Jackie Potter was part of the Australian Team in the first Women’s World Cup in Cricket in 1973. The Cricketer would get herself listed among the cricketers with the most runs at Womens Cricket World Cup 1973.

Potter scored 167 runs from the 5 innings she played in the tournament at an average of 83.50 from these 6 matches. Her highest score was 57 and interestingly, not only this is her career best ODI score, but these matches are all her career extended to.

4. Vivalyn Latty-Scott (Jamaica Women)

Jamaica was one of the teams that participated in the first cricket world cup in women’s cricket. Vivalyn Latty-Scott scored 168 runs from the 5 innings she played in the tournament. Her average to these runs was 33.60 and these included two 50+ scores. Her highest score was 61, also her highest from ODI career. With these runs she’d get herself on the record list of most runs at Womens Cricket World Cup 1973.

3. Rachael Heyhoe-Flint (England Women)

England were not only the hosts, but they would go on to win the tournament as well. Rachael Heyhoe-Flint was part of the English team that participated in the first cricket world cup in women’s cricket. Flint scored 257 runs from the 6 innings she played in the tournament. Her average to these runs was 85.66 and these included a fifty and a hundred. Her highest score was 114, also her highest from ODI career. With these runs she’d get herself on the record list of most runs at Womens Cricket World Cup 1973.

2. Lynne Thomas (England Women)

All-rounder Lynne Thomas was also a part of the English team. Thomas would go on to score 263 runs from the 4 innings she played in the tournament. Her average to these runs was 87.66 and these included a fifty and a hundred. Her highest score was 134, the highest individual score at Womens Cricket World Cup 1973, also her highest from ODI career. With these runs she’d get herself on the record list of most runs at Womens Cricket World Cup 1973.

1. Enid Bakewell (England Women)

All-rounder Enid Bakewell was one of the best all-rounders in English Women Cricket. She was member of the English team at the Women’s World Cup 1973 and scored 264 runs from the 4 innings she played in the tournament. Her average to these runs was 88 and these included two 100+ scores. Her highest score was 118, also her highest from ODI career. With these runs she’d get herself on the record list of most runs at Womens Cricket World Cup 1973.

These were the cricketers who were the top-scorers in the 1973 Women’s World Cup, the first ever cricket world cup in Cricket. England would go on to win the tournament while Australia would be the runners up in a 7 team tournament featuring England, Australia, Jamaica, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, International XI & Young England. Hope you liked the content, don’t forget to pen down your comments below with your thoughts and questions about the topic.