39 years old Jhulan Goswami, the Indian international Cricketer and former captain of the National Women’s Cricket team belongs to West Bangal. She has performed miraculously and gained 250 wickets. Jhulan became the first women cricket player in the one day internationals who created this historical moment against England on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, England defeated the Indian team in the Women’s World Cup-2022 match. In this match, India’s pacer Jhulan Goswami made a special achievement. Jhulan has become the first and only woman cricketer in the world to take 250 wickets in One Day International cricket. Apart from Jhulan, no other female cricketer has been able to complete even 200 wickets, but this veteran made it possible.
Jhulan Goswami achieved this feat in the Women’s World Cup match against England at Mount Maunganui. She sent England opener Tammy Beaumont to the pavilion on the last ball of the third over of the innings and completed his 250 ODI wickets. Katherine Fitzpatrick, the second bowler in the list after Jhulan, has only 180 wickets to her name.
Jhulan, made her ODI debut in 2002, has played a total of 199 matches in this format so far. During this his economy rate was 3.36. She has so far taken 5 or more wickets in ODI career 2 times. He has bowled more than 1620 overs. Former Australia women’s pacer Katherine Fitzpatrick is at number two in this list. He took a total of 180 wickets in 109 ODIs, which included 5 or more wickets 4 times.
Lets take look at the women players who have taken most of the wickets.
Player | Team | Match | Number of Wickets |
JhulanGoswami | India | 199 | 250 |
CaithrinFitzpaitik | Australia | 109 | 180 |
Anisa Mohammad | West Indies | 139 | 180 |
ShabnamEsmile | South Africa | 117 | 164 |
Caithrin Brunt | England | 135 | 164 |
England defeated the Indian women’s team (IND W vs ENG W) by 4 wickets at Mount Maunganui on Wednesday. Mithali Raj captained the Indian team. She could not do much in batting and was all out after scoring 134 runs in 36.2 overs. After this, the English team achieved the target in 31.2 overs by losing 6 wickets