Ellyse Perry becomes first Australian women to play 150 ODIs

Ace all-rounder Ellyse Perry added another feather to her cap, becoming the first-ever Australian woman to play 150 ODI games. The 34-year-old achieved that feat in the third ODI against India at the WACA ground in Perth. 

No currently active women’s cricketer in Australia has played more than 110 (Alyssa Healy) games. Alex Blackwell is behind Perry with 144 games, followed by Karen Rolton (141), Lisa Sthalekar (125), and Belinda Clark (118). 

ODI cap 1⃣5⃣0⃣ for Ellyse Perry today!

She's just the eighth woman to the milestone, and the first Australian #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/Qj7wZSSv2N

— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) December 11, 2024

Perry, who made her ODI debut for Australia in July 2007 against New Zealand, is in the 18th year of her career. She has scored 4064 runs at an average of 50.8 and picked 165 wickets at 25.21. 

She has also played 13 Tests and 162 T20I games for Australia. In T20Is, she has 2088 runs and 126 wickets, and meanwhile, she averages a sky-high 61.86 with the bat in Test cricket, with a highest score of 213. 

However, in her milestone clash, Perry couldn't trouble the Indian bowlers a lot, scoring just four runs. She was flummoxed by a brute of a delivery from Arundhati Reddy, for which Perry had no reply. That didn't matter in the end as Australia, on the back of Annabel Sutherland's century got to 298/6 in 50 overs. 

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