Star opener Meg Lanning scored an explosive century for Melbourne Stars.
The auction for the new season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) is going to take place in a few days. This time there is going to be a mega auction and in such a situation, the team of many players will change and some new players will also hope that their luck will shine. But this time the auction will also keep an eye on some veteran players, who were not retained by their team. Among them, there is one such legend who retired two years ago but is still performing equally well with the bat. This is Australia’s former captain Meg Lanning, who played a record innings in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL 2025) and led the team to a strong victory.
Meg Lanning, who plays for Melbourne Stars in WBBL, scored a memorable century against Sydney Sixers on Thursday 20 November. In this match played in North Sydney, Melbourne batted first and Meg Lanning along with Reece McKenna made a strong opening partnership of 159 runs in just 15.4 overs. During this, the former Australian captain completed his century in just 61 balls. McKenna also scored a half-century in 32 balls.
33 year old Lanning continued the attack even after this and died after taking the team beyond 200 runs. Lanning, who was out in the 20th over, played the biggest innings of her WBBL career and scored 135 runs in just 74 balls. During this time, the legendary opener of Melbourne Stars also made a new record. She became the batsman who scored the most boundaries in an innings of WBBL. In his century innings, he hit 22 fours and 4 sixes i.e. a total of 26 boundaries. Melbourne Stars made a big score of 219 runs by losing 4 wickets in 20 overs. In response, the Sydney Sixers team failed miserably and the entire team collapsed for just 42 runs in 7.4 overs. Melbourne won this match by a huge margin of 111 runs according to Duckworth-Lewis rule.
As far as WPL is concerned, Lanning was the captain of Delhi Capitals in this Indian league. Lanning, who is retiring from international cricket in 2023, remained the captain of the team for three consecutive years from the first season of WPL and took the team to the finals all three times. But Lanning, who won many World Cups as captain in international cricket, could not achieve success in WPL and had to face defeat in the finals all three times. After this, this time Delhi Capitals released him. However, even after this, big bids are expected for them in the auction.