ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2017
2017 · 8 teams · ODI cricket
Tournament Overview
Series Overview
The 2017 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, hosted in England, produced what many consider the greatest Women's World Cup final of all time — a match at Lord's that had everything: a record partnership, a fightback, a collapse, and a finish decided by just 9 runs in front of 24,000 spectators. England posted 228/7. India, chasing 229, were magnificent: reaching 191/3 and requiring just 38 from the final 10 overs with seven wickets in hand. The match seemed won. Then Anya Shrubsole struck. In 19 balls of pure genius, she took five wickets for 11 runs — the most destructive spell in Women's WC final history — to trigger a collapse that left India all out for 219. England won by 9 runs. The final came after one of the most stunning semi-finals ever played: Harmanpreet Kaur's 171* off 115 balls for India against Australia had been an innings of extraordinary power and improvisation, widely regarded as the greatest batting performance in Women's World Cup history. Player of the Tournament Tammy Beaumont had been consistently excellent throughout for England. But it was Shrubsole's 6/46 that became the image of the tournament — captured across every back page in England and watched by millions live on TV, the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup was the event that made women's cricket mainstream in England.
Key Highlights
- 1Anya Shrubsole took 6/46 — the best bowling figures in Women's World Cup final history — to bowl England to a dramatic 9-run victory
- 2India were 191/3 and seemingly cruising to the title before Shrubsole took five wickets for 11 runs in 19 devastating deliveries
- 3A sold-out Lord's crowd of 24,000 witnessed the most dramatic finale in Women's Cricket World Cup history
- 4Harmanpreet Kaur had scored 171* off 115 balls against Australia in the semi-final — the greatest innings in Women's WC tournament history at that point
- 5England's third Women's ODI World Cup title — a watershed moment that transformed women's cricket in England into a mainstream spectacle