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Cricket News: Superstar Meg Lanning only behind Virat, Sachin & Rohit | Meg Lanning scored her 10th century in a successful ODI run chase

Australia captain and superstar Meg Lanning’s masterful and classy 135* against South Africa has put her among the best players – male or female – to grace ODI cricket.

Lanning struck her 15th century – the most ever in women’s ODIs – to flatten the previously unbeaten South Africa who had posted a seemingly competitive 271/5. As the Australian skipper took apart one of the best attacks in the 2022 World Cup, she joined some illustrious company when it comes to icing ODI run chases.

Of Lanning’s 15 centuries, 10 have come while chasing. And, all 10 have resulted in a successful run chase. This puts her fourth for most hundreds in successful run-chases in ODI history behind Virat Kohli (22), Sachin Tendulkar (14) and Rohit Sharma (11).

In terms of women’s cricket, Lanning has double the amount of centuries when chasing than the next best – New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite with five.

Meg Lanning leads Australia to 18th straight successful ODI chase

Australia’s calculated and clinical performance against South Africa on Tuesday was their 18th consecutive successful ODI chase after they also chased 270+ against India over the weekend. This incredible streak began back in 2018 in Vadodara, where Australia cruised past India’s 200 with eight wickets and 106 deliveries to spare courtesy of Nicole Bolton’s unbeaten hundred.

Their run of 18 is a record in all ODI cricket – men’s or women’s – going past the Indian men’s 17 back in 2005 and 2006.

Next up for Australia is Bangladesh on the 25th of March. If Bangladesh bat first in that encounter, one can feel very confident that Meg Lanning’s team will extend that streak to 19 matches.

This streak comes soon after the Australian women’s team went past Ricky Ponting’s team of 2003 in terms of most consecutive ODI wins in history. They had won 26 straight matches between 2018 and 2021. Now, they are on a streak of nine straight wins and have won all six matches so far at the World Cup in New Zealand.

After their match against Bangladesh on Friday, Australia will prepare for the World Cup Semi Finals which kick off next Wednesday, 30 March.

With Lanning and Australia in such form, it will take a mighty effort to take them down.