5 players to have scored 1000 or more runs in Women’s World Cup history

#2) Belinda Clark (Australia)

In World Cups, she amassed 1151 runs in 29 matches at an astonishing average of 60.57

Fourth on the list is a legend of the Australia Women’s cricket, Belinda Clark. In a career spanning 14 years for Australia between 1991 and 2005, Clark scored 4844 runs in 118 ODIS.

In World Cups, she amassed 1151 runs in 29 matches at an astonishing average of 60.57. She also holds the record of scoring a double hundred in ODI cricket. Her innings of 229* came against the Denmark women at Mumbai in the 1997 World Cup. She also led Australia women to their fourth World Cup title that year.

Interestingly, she juggled her on-field and off-field duties quite well during her playing days. On one side, she was the captain of the Australian women’s team and on the other side, she was also the chief executive of Women’s Cricket Australia.

After having lost the World Cup final in 2001 to New Zealand, Clark went on to claim her second title and the fifth for Australia women in 2005.

She had an exemplary average of over 45 in Tests as well with a best score of 136 that came against England at Worcester in 1998. She called it time at the end of the 2005 Ashes series that Australia lost to England.