ICC Women's World Cup 2017: Team of the tournament

Middle Order

Meg Lanning showed why she is the world no. 1 batter in the world

The middle-order of our team of the tournament consists of three of the best batters of the modern era.

Batting at number 3 will be Australian captain and the world no. 1 in ODIs, Meg Lanning. Lanning was instrumental in Australia reaching the semis as she dominated the bowling attacks in this tournament as if she was facing sub-par teams.

Extra cover: Meg Lanning, the wonder girl of women's cricket

In spite of suffering a shoulder injury during the tournament, Lanning showed some great character by playing through pain and ended the tournament with 328 runs in six innings at an average of 82 and a strike-rate 93.

Captain of the both the finalists, Mithali and Heather find a place in the WWC XI

Following Lanning will be her Indian counterpart Mithali Raj and England batswoman Nattie Sciver. Without a doubt, Mithali is the greatest batter to have graced the game and in the 2017 World Cup, she showed exactly why the fans consider her way above the rest.

She became the first batter to score 6000 ODI runs in women's ODIs during the ongoing tournament.

Mithali agonisingly fell one run short of Tammy Beaumont's tally of 410 runs. She scored her runs at an average of 46 and a strike-rate of 71 with the help of three fifties and one century.

In a tight contest between two English players, batswoman Natalie Sciver just pipped her skipper Heather Knight for a place in the middle order, thanks to her brilliant display of attacking brand of cricket in the tournament in which the right-hander has scored 369 runs in 9 innings at an average and strike-rate of 46 and 108 respectively.

Sciver also picked up 7 wickets in 9 innings at an average of 28.5 and an economy of 4.87.