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In the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025, Heather Knight and Charlotte Dean made a record partnership of 79 runs for the seventh wicket. This partnership gave England a difficult victory. Heather Knight won the title of Player of the Match by scoring unbeaten 79 runs.
Delhi: In the eighth match of ICC Women’s World Cup 2025, England defeated Bangladesh by 4 wickets. Many important records were made in this match played at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati. The partnership of 79 runs between former England captain Heather Knight and Charlotte Dean achieved a new milestone in World Cup history.
Knight and Dean made a record
This is the largest partnership ever formed in a successful run chase for the seventh or lower wicket in Women’s World Cup history. Earlier this record was in the name of India’s Jhulan Goswami and Rumeli Dhar, who had made a partnership of 41* runs against Australia in 2009.
This is not the first time for Charlotte Dean that she has been a part of a big partnership for the seventh wicket. Before this, she had made an unbeaten 130-run partnership with Amy Johns against New Zealand last year. Even then, England came back from a difficult situation (79/6) and achieved the target of 208 runs.
Heather Knight, who played a brilliant inning of 79* runs in the match, was chosen as the player of the match. His innings brought the team out of trouble and brought it to the top of the World Cup points table with its second consecutive win.
With this victory, Knight has now reached fourth place in the list of England’s highest run-scorers. The player who has scored the most ODI runs for the England women’s team is Charlotte Edwards, who has 5992 runs to her name. She is followed by Tammy Beaumont (4562), Nate Sciver-Brunt (4124) and now Heather Knight (4116). Claire Taylor is in fifth place with 4101 runs.
