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The ICC Women's Championship - Stats & Records

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Qualification for the 2017 World Cup was decided via the ICC Women's Championship - a round-robin series between the world's top eight ranked sides, played over the two-and-a-half years preceding the tournament. Each team played three ODIs against every other team, either at home or away, with the top four sides qualifying directly for the World Cup, and the bottom four going into a qualifying tournament with the lower-ranked sides. Australia, England, New Zealand and the West Indies qualified directly; whilst India, South Africa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka qualified via the qualifying tournament. Batting Most Runs Meg Lanning (Aus) - 1,232 Ellyse Perry (Aus) - 985 Suzie Bates (NZ) - 978 Meg Lanning © Don Miles FUN FACT: Meg Lanning once appeared in an episode of the soap opera Neighbours, alongside a baby wombat called Warnie! Most Sixes Lizelle Lee (SA) - 17 Nat Sciver (Eng) - 11 Meg Lanning & Diandra  Dottin (WI) - 9 FUN FACT: A Lizelle Lee