Kiwi girl sets ‘surreal’ record in ODI cricket
dublin — New Zealand teenager Amelia Kerr shattered a world batting record in women’s oneday international cricket with a blistering 232 not out against Ireland on Wednesday.
Kerr amassed the record total just days after her team’s 490 for four against Ireland set a record for cricket’s highest-ever one-day international total.
The 17-year-old, whose average was just 29 going into the match, blasted 31 fours and two sixes to surpass the 229 scored by Australia’s Belinda Clark against Denmark in 1997 — three years before Kerr was born.
Kerr’s onslaught is also the third-highest individual score by a man or woman in one-day international history.
India men’s player Rohit Sharma is at the top of the pile with his 264 scored against Sri Lanka in 2014.
New Zealand’s Martin Guptill made 237 against West Indies in 2015. At 17 years and 243 days, Kerr is the youngest double-centurion in international men’s or women’s cricket.
“It was pretty surreal. It was just nice to get the opportunity to open and get some time out in the middle,” Kerr told the New Zealand Cricket website. “I had to work hard at the start but once I got through (that), I got going and had a good partnership with Leigh which allowed me just to play how I wanted to play and try to hit boundaries because we weren’t losing wickets,” explained Kerr. —