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Meg Lanning

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Meg Lanning is an Australian cricketer, a batsman who captained the Australian women's national cricket team through a long run of international success in the 2010s and early 2020s. Under her captaincy Australia won multiple Womens Cricket World Cup titles across both the fifty-over and Twenty20 formats, and she is regarded as one of the most successful captains, male or female, in the sport's history.

Facts
Birth Year
1992 1
Birth Date
1992-03-25 1
Nationality
Australian 1
Career Highlight
Captained Australia through seven successful world championship campaigns, winning two Women's Cricket World Cups and five ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles, and holds the record for most Women's ODI centuries. 1
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Team 1
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1. Wikipedia, Meg Lanning
Wikipedia
  • en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-date clause: "born 25 March 1992"
    born 25 March 1992
  • en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-year figure: "born 25 March 1992"
    born 25 March 1992
  • en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, nationality clause
    is an Australian cricketer who formerly captained the national women's team.
  • en.wikipedia.org lead paragraph, career-highlight sentence
    Lanning has been a member of seven successful world championship campaigns, winning two Women's Cricket World Cup and five ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles. She holds the record for the most Women's One Day International centuries and is the first Australian to score 2,000 Twenty20 International runs.
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    Meghann Moira Lanning (born 25 March 1992) is an Australian cricketer who formerly captained the national women's team.
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