The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Borrowed: Ollie Rayner

So what’s happening here? How have the international cricket grounds of England become a hell for bowlers? Two balls? Flat pitches? Knowing that even wilder things may happen between writing this piece and it appearing in the paper, we can just list:
● NZ Women topping 400 three times against Ireland (three of the top four record scores), including that extravagant 490-4.
● South Africa Women taken for 216-1 against New Zealand and 250-3 against England in the same day.
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