Summary New Zealand teenager Amelia Kerr scored a blistering 232 not out against Ireland on Wednesday.
DUBLIN (AFP) - New Zealand teenager Amelia Kerr shattered a world batting record in women s one-day international cricket with a blistering 232 not out against Ireland on Wednesday.
Kerr amassed the record total just days after her team s 490 for four against Ireland set a record for cricket s highest-ever one-day international total.
The 17-year-old, whose average was 29 going into the match, blasted 31 fours and two sixes to surpass the 229 scored by Australia s Belinda Clark against Denmark in 1997 -- three years before Kerr was born.
Kerr s 232 is the third-highest individual score by a man or woman in one-day international cricket history.
India men s player Rohit Sharma is at the top of the pile with his 264 scored against Sri Lanka in 2014.
New Zealand s Martin Guptill made 237 against West Indies in 2015.
At 17 years and 243 days, Kerr is the youngest double-centurion in international men s or women s cricket.
Kerr then starred with the ball, the leg-spinner taking five for 17 in seven overs as New Zealand s women went on to beat Ireland by 305 runs after dismissing the hosts for 135 in Dublin.
Victory saw the White Ferns complete a 3-0 series sweep over Ireland, with every one of those wins by colossal margins of over 300 runs.
