Record-breaker Kerr steals the plaudits with unbeaten 232

By Jon Couch

History maker: Amelia Kerr

AMELIA KERR is women’s cricket’s new record breaker – and she’s sitting on top of the world.
New Zealand’s latest batting phenomenon, just 17, blasted a record-breaking 232 not out against Ireland on Wednesday – the highest score in the history of women’s One Day Internationals.
Australia’s Belinda Clark had held the record of 229 not out against Denmark in Mumbai in 1997 – three years before Kerr was born! Her knock, which included 31 fours and two sixes, capped off a threematch series in which...

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