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Australia women’s team equal world-record 21 straight ODI wins | Australia’s women’s team equal Ricky Ponting’s team of 2003

After winning 21 consecutive ODIs, Australia women’s team has equalled Ricky Ponting’s team record. The last match they lost was back in October 2017.

“It’s a strange one and it hasn’t been spoken about as a group. 20-odd players have been a part of it and contributed to the success of the team throughout this period. It’s a special achievement and something we’ll reflect back on in due course,” said stand-in captain Rachael Haynes at the virtual post-match press conference after winning the home series against New Zealand.

After losing in 2017 Women’s World Cup Semi Final to India, the Aussies won the home series vs India by 3-0. Moving on they played against Pakistan in Malaysia in 2018-19 and won the three ODIs convincingly. And after that against New Zealand in 2018-19, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka in 2019 and NZ again in 2020, they won all the series without a loss.

“I definitely followed the men’s side while I was growing up. They had a pretty extraordinary period of success. To compare that group to ours is obviously very special. It’s sort of hard to get your head around how significant it is but in due course will reflect upon it and celebrate. I’m sure there will be some embezzling stories and those sort of things”, the winning captain said.

Haynes had a great innings with the bat as she was leading the team from the front with an average of 74 and 222 runs in the series against New Zealand. “I wanted to make sure I was there for as long as possible to help lay an important foundation. Because we know at the back end we’ve got wickets in hand and you can really accelerate. We were able to do that perfectly today with the bat. Healy was fantastic at the start. We sort of found it tough to get going a little bit, but she clicked in the gear and gave us some really good momentum. To have a partnership with Annabel, really set up the game and allowed us to accelerate in the back end. so it was a great batting effort from everyone who walked out there,” the 33-year old said.

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