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title: "6 Lesser-Known Facts About Women's Cricket"  
description: "The first recorded women's match took place in 1745 in Surrey between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon. Here's facts about women cricket"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-31  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1450/6-lesser-known-facts-about-women-s-cricket  
category: "cricket"  
tags: ["Cricket", "cricketer", "women cricketer", "women's cricket", "India", "world", "sports", "women sports"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# 6 Lesser-Known Facts About Women's Cricket

![6 Lesser Known Facts About Women s Cricket](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/fb76ccf7-f8f4-4117-95ef-3dda75726da1/images/8848df5c-9f6a-49bf-afe7-6159074893b5.jpeg) ![6 Lesser Known Facts About Women s Cricket](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/fb76ccf7-f8f4-4117-95ef-3dda75726da1/images/e98deb38-0f82-4c50-bc13-f258d0a45126.jpeg) First Ever women’s ODI match was played at Lord on 4th August,1976. ![6 Lesser Known Facts About Women s Cricket](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/fb76ccf7-f8f4-4117-95ef-3dda75726da1/images/5155ad8e-0050-4d01-aac9-47391a1cd89f.jpeg) In 1997, Belinda Clark the Aussie batswomen scored 229* runs and made a world record of highest individual score. ![6 Lesser Known Facts About Women s Cricket](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/fb76ccf7-f8f4-4117-95ef-3dda75726da1/images/9799339d-88e1-4187-b2a5-d91e0de7373e.jpeg) Priyanka Roy was the only female cricketer to take 5 wickets in a T20 world cup ![6 Lesser Known Facts About Women s Cricket](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/fb76ccf7-f8f4-4117-95ef-3dda75726da1/images/215d031a-c6e2-4bb0-84c1-c1d39d942ca6.jpeg) Mithali Raj beat Virat Kohli for Padma Shri award, She is also the recipient of Arjuna Award. ![6 Lesser Known Facts About Women s Cricket](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/fb76ccf7-f8f4-4117-95ef-3dda75726da1/images/8848df5c-9f6a-49bf-afe7-6159074893b5.jpeg) Indian team won their first Asia Cup in 2004. They subsequently won 3 more Asia Cups. ![6 Lesser Known Facts About Women s Cricket](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/fb76ccf7-f8f4-4117-95ef-3dda75726da1/images/7850a356-1808-4eee-8efd-8b476dea0b7f.jpeg) Australian women’s cricket team has the most world cup titles i.e 6 titles in ODI world cup and 3 in T20 world cup.

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