West Indies Women’s team captain, Stafanie Taylor, solidified herself as one of the greatest female batters the region has ever produced with her sixth century in the first Women’s One-Day International against Pakistan recently, a day she has dreamed of for a long time.
The right hander chalked up an unbeaten 105 in addition grabbing bowling figures of 3-29 to steer West Indies Women to a five-wicket win.
After the match, the 30-year-old spoke on achieving the milestone.
“It’s a great feeling. I’ve been dreaming of this day to finally go past that five hundred and make it six so I am really happy,” she declared.
To contextualize the West Indian Wonder Woman’s dominance among her teammates, only five women have scored centuries for West Indies Women with the other four having one century each.
Comparing to the other nations, Taylor is 10th for most centuries with Australia’s Meg Lanning leading the way with 14, followed by New Zealand’s Suzie Bates (10), England’s Charlotte Edwards (09) and Claire Taylor (08), Australia’s Karne Rolton (08), England’s Tammy Beaumont and Sarah Taylor, New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite and India’s Mithali Raj with seven each.
Her 36 half centuries is almost double that of the next best, Deandra Dottin who has 19 while her tally of 4859 runs in the format is 2000 runs more than Dottin’s. Taylor’s average of 44.99 is far superior to any other female international player in the Region who has played a minimum of 20 innings. No other batter averages in the 30s. In fact, her average is the fifth highest among active female players in the world.
“I said to myself I am always in this position and I like batting in 50-over games so it’s a matter of getting myself in and once I know I get myself in and somebody down at the bottom we should get this runs,” she said when her side was 75-3 at one stage.
Taylor said that reaching the target was at the forefront of her aims and she was happy to reach the milestone. She is currently ranked fifth in WODI batters and third among all-rounders. West Indies Women’s team captain, Stafanie Taylor, solidified herself as one of the greatest female batters the region has ever produced with her sixth century in the first Women’s One-Day International against Pakistan recently, a day she has dreamed of for a long time.
The right hander chalked up an unbeaten 105 in addition grabbing bowling figures of 3-29 to steer West Indies Women to a five-wicket win.
After the match, the 30-year-old spoke on achieving the milestone.
“It’s a great feeling. I’ve been dreaming of this day to finally go past that five hundred and make it six so I am really happy,” she declared.
To contextualize the West Indian Wonder Woman’s dominance among her teammates, only five women have scored centuries for West Indies Women with the other four having one century each.
Comparing to the other nations, Taylor is 10th for most centuries with Australia’s Meg Lanning leading the way with 14, followed by New Zealand’s Suzie Bates (10), England’s Charlotte Edwards (09) and Claire Taylor (08), Australia’s Karne Rolton (08), England’s Tammy Beaumont and Sarah Taylor, New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite and India’s Mithali Raj with seven each.
Her 36 half centuries is almost double that of the next best, Deandra Dottin who has 19 while her tally of 4859 runs in the format is 2000 runs more than Dottin’s. Taylor’s average of 44.99 is far superior to any other female international player in the Region who has played a minimum of 20 innings. No other batter averages in the 30s. In fact, her average is the fifth highest among active female players in the world.
“I said to myself I am always in this position and I like batting in 50-over games so it’s a matter of getting myself in and once I know I get myself in and somebody down at the bottom we should get this runs,” she said when her side was 75-3 at one stage.
Taylor said that reaching the target was at the forefront of her aims and she was happy to reach the milestone. She is currently ranked fifth in WODI batters and third among all-rounders.
