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Women's Ashes: Australia's Meg Lanning hits T20 record 133 against England


Australia clinch Women’s Ashes series by inflicting England’s record T20 defeat
Women’s Ashes: First Twenty20 international, The Cloudfm County Ground
Australia 226-3 (20 overs): Lanning 133*, Mooney 54
England 133-9 (20 overs): Winfield 33, Schutt 3-25
Australia won by 93 runs (Australia 2pts; take unassailable 10-2 lead in series)
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Meg Lanning broke her own record for the highest score in a Women’s Twenty20 international as Australia inflicted England’s biggest T20 defeat to clinch the Women’s Ashes series outright.

Captain Lanning hit 17 fours and seven sixes in her unbeaten 133 from 63 balls in Australia’s 226-3 at Chelmsford.

England were never in the hunt, making 133-9 for a record 93-run defeat.

It means Lanning’s side take an unassailable 10-2 lead on points in the multi-format Women’s Ashes series.

There are two more T20 games remaining, at Hove on Sunday and at Bristol next Wednesday – when Australia will fancy their chances of going unbeaten throughout the series, following last week’s drawn Test in Taunton.

Lethal Lanning tops the charts

Lanning needed just 63 balls to rack up her record score

Lanning’s innings topped her previous best of 126, which she made against Ireland in March 2014 and was then equalled by Sterre Kalis of the Netherlands against Germany last month.

The International Cricket Council’s decision last year