New Zealand women’s cricket team posted the highest ever total in one-day cricket — an incredible 490 for four against Ireland in the first ODI in Dublin with skipper Suzie Bates leading from the front with a blistering 151-run knock.
The total posted by the ‘White Ferns’ is the highest ever in ODIs, including men’s matches.
In men’s cricket, the highest ODI total is 444 for three by England against Pakistan in August, 2016 at Nottingham.
The New Zealand women bettered their own 21-year-old World record of 455 for five against Pakistan at Christchurch in January, 1997.
It’s only third time that a 400-plus score has been made in women’s ODIs. Australia was the first team to touch the 400-plus mark when it thrashed Denmark to score 412 for three in Mumbai in December, 1997.
In men’s ODIs, a 400-plus score has been achieved 18 times by different teams.
Bates blasted 151 off 94 balls, with 24 fours and two sixes. Maddy Green scored 121 off 105 balls with 17 fours and two sixes.
Amelia Kerr contributed in piling on the misery by scoring 81 off 71 balls with nine fours and three sixes.
An unprecedented 64 boundaries were hit in addition to the seven sixes by the New Zealand batters.