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On Tuesday, England’s male team stormed into record book by scoring a mammoth 481 during the 3rd ODI against Australia at Nottingham. Following the trend, England Women’s team too end up achieving a similar feat by scoring 250-3 against South Africa Women in the Tri-Nation T20I series at Taunton. This is now the highest ever score in Women’s T20Is. Interestingly, few hours before this match, New Zealand Women posted 216-1 against the same South Africa Women team at the same venue, which was the highest total in Women’s T20Is till England surpassed it on the same day. Certainly, it seemed to be a tough outing throughout the day for South Africa Women as they were thrashed badly in both the games. Highest total in Women's T20Is Score Team Against Venue Match Date 250-3 ENG Women SA Women Taunton 20 June 2018 216-1 NZ Women SA Women Taunton 20 June 2018 209-4 AUS Women ENG Women Mumbai (BS) 31 March 2018 205-1 SA Women NED Women Potchefstroom 14 October 2010 199-3 ENG Women IND Women Mumbai (BS) 25 March 2018 This is also the 4th highest total in the history of T20Is across genders. The highest remains Australia’s 263-3 against Sri Lanka at Pallekele in 2016. England Women scored such huge total because of brilliant batting display from openers Danielle Wyatt and Tammy Beaumont. Wyatt scored 56 off 36 balls, including 9 fours, while Beaumont became the 7th female cricketer and 2nd from England to smash a century in T20Is by collecting 116 off just 52 balls, including 18 fours and 4 sixes. Wyatt is first from England Women’s team to score a hundred in T20Is and that too twice. Interestingly, where England Women’s team has two centurions in T20Is, England men’s team has only one — Alex Hales. Moving on, after the openers, Natalie Sciver and Katherine Brunt too played a vital role in posting this huge total with them scoring 33 off 15 not out and 42 off 16 unbeaten respectively. Both the wickets were scalped by spinner Stacy Lackey after conceding 59 runs from her spell of 4 overs — joint most runs leaked in a Women’s T20I along with Masabata Klaas in the same match. The duo broke the previous record of conceding 52 runs by Australia’s Shelley Nitschke against New Zealand at Hobart in 2010. Most expensive bowling in Women's T20Is BBI Bowler Team Against Venue Match Date 59-0 Masabata Klaas SA Women ENG Women Taunton 20 June 2018 59-2 Stacy Lackay SA Women ENG Women Taunton 20 June 2018 52-2 Shelley Nitschke AUS Women NZ Women Hobart 23 February 2010 50-1 Eimear Richardson IRE Women AUS Women Sylhet 27 March 2014 After setting up such a huge total, England’s victory was evident but some fight back was also expected from South Africa Women, which did not come. Chasing a mammoth target of 251, South Africa Women could amass only 129-6 in 20 overs with their captain Dane Van Niekerk leading from the front by hammering 72 off 51. England Women won the match by a huge margin of 121 runs — biggest margin victory for any team in Women’s T20Is. Previous best was of115 runs for South Africa Women against Netherlands Women at Potchefstroom in 2010. This is also the 4th biggest margin victory in T20Is history across gender.