Alana King sets Women's World Cup record during AUS-W vs SA-W match in Women's Cricket World Cup 2025

The 29-year-old Australian leg-spinner Alana King stormed with the ball as South Africa Women had no answers. While the Aussie leggie set up a new bowling record in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup history, South Africa Women were bundled out for only 97 runs.

Alana King took seven wickets

It was the match for securing the top position in the points table of the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025, as the table topper will face the hosts India Women in the Semi-final of the tournament. After Australia Women chose to bowl first at Indore, they bundled out Proteas for only 97 runs in 24 overs, where Alana King recorded a seven-fer, the very first time in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup history.  

In the South African innings, only their opener and skipper Laura Wolvaardt (31), Sinalo Jafta (29), and Nadine de Klerk (14) managed to reach double-digit scores, while there were also three ducks. 

Alana King took four wickets before conceding any runs, as she also had one hat-trick opportunity in that period when she dismissed Annerie Dercksen (5) and Chloe Tryon (0) on back-to-back deliveries. King also dismissed Sune Luus (6), Marizanne Kapp (0), Sinalo Jafta (29), Nadine de Klerk (14), and Masabata Klaas (4). She ended the innings with the bowling figures of 7-2-18-7, as four batters were bowled. 

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Alana King recorded best bowling figures in ICC Women's Cricket World Cup as well as for Australia Women in WODI

It is the new record for the best bowling figures in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup history. The previous record was 8-2-10-6 by Jackie Lord from New Zealand Women against India Women at Auckland in the 1982 edition. 

It is also the best Women's ODI bowling figures for an Australian Women bowler. The previous record was 10-4-22-7 by Ellyse Perry against England Women in the 2019 Canterbury WODI. Also, King recorded the fourth best bowling figures in the Women's ODI history.