Women's ODI World Cup 2022: Alyssa Healy Scores 170 — The Highest Score in Any World Cup Final — as Australia Win by 71 Runs

Australia won the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 on 3 April 2022 at Hagley Oval in Christchurch, New Zealand, defeating England by 71 runs. Australia scored 356/5 in 50 overs; England were bowled out for 285. Alyssa Healy scored 170 off 138 balls — the highest individual score in any cricket World Cup final in history, men's or women's — winning Player of the Match. Healy also won Player of the Tournament with 509 runs across the competition. Meg Lanning captained Australia to their seventh Women's ODI World Cup title.

170 Off 138: The Highest Score in Any Cricket World Cup Final

Alyssa Healy's 170 off 138 balls in the Women's World Cup 2022 final at Hagley Oval — scored in a 50-over match on 3 April 2022 — is the highest individual score in any cricket World Cup final in history: higher than Viv Richards' 138 in the 1979 Men's WC final, higher than Ricky Ponting's 140* in the 2003 Men's WC final, and higher than any innings in a Women's World Cup final before or since. Healy, NSW's wicketkeeper-batter and Australia's opening batter in white-ball cricket, produced an innings of exceptional consistency and power — building through the first 30 overs to give herself the platform for the acceleration that took Australia to 356/5. The combination of 170 from Healy and a 356/5 team total gave England a chase that was effectively beyond reach from the 15th over of their innings.

509 Tournament Runs: Healy Wins Player of the Tournament as Well

Alyssa Healy winning both the Player of the Match in the final (170 off 138) and Player of the Tournament (509 runs across the competition) was a sustained batting dominance that gave the Women's World Cup 2022 a singular individual story. Her 509 runs in New Zealand made her the competition's leading scorer by a substantial margin — an accumulation built across multiple group-stage and knockout innings that reflected the consistency with which she had maintained her 170-standard batting quality throughout the tournament. The double Player of the Match and Player of the Tournament — for a wicketkeeper-batter in a 50-over competition — reflected the sustained quality of Healy's New Zealand tour batting across all conditions and match situations.

Women's ODI World Cup 2022 in Context

The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 was held in New Zealand across February-April — a 50-over competition featuring ten teams across multiple venues. The tournament had been rescheduled from 2021 due to COVID-19 disruptions, making the 2022 edition the Women's ODI WC's post-pandemic return. Australia's dominance throughout — undefeated through the group stage, with Healy's batting establishing from the competition's outset — gave the 2022 edition a foreseeable trajectory that the final confirmed with emphatic numbers: 356/5, 170, 509. The 2022 Women's ODI WC delivered the single most dominant individual batting performance in Women's World Cup history, and the highest score in any World Cup final across both men's and women's cricket.