New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr hit a shocking 179 not out off 139 balls to encourage her facet to chase down 346 towards South Africa within the highest profitable run chase in girls’s one-day worldwide historical past.
Laura Wolvaardt’s 69 from 74 balls, a 91 from 90 balls by Anneke Bosch and Chloe Tryon’s 25-ball 52 helped South Africa submit 346-6 within the second ODI of their sequence towards the Kiwis.
Kerr got here in at 21-1 in New Zealand’s reply and struck 23 fours and one six at a strike fee of 128.78 throughout her match-winning knock.
She was helped by Izzy Gaze, who made 68 from 48 balls, because the Kiwis made 350-8 in reaching their goal with two balls to spare and levelling the sequence.
The earlier highest profitable chase in girls’s ODI cricket was when India made 341-5 in reaching a 338 goal set by Australia of their World Cup semi-final final October.
Kerr is not any stranger to producing heroics, particularly towards South Africa, as she impressed New Zealand to victory towards them in a T20 World Cup ultimate in 2024.
She was additionally the ICC’s girls’s cricketer of the yr in 2024.
Kerr additionally holds the file for the very best particular person innings in a girls’s ODI, having hit an unbeaten 232 towards Eire when aged 17 in 2018.
