ICC Women's World Cup 2022: Team of the tournament

The ICC Women's World Cup 2022 has completed on Sunday, with Australia lifting up the crown for a record 7th time. Meg Lanning led Australia to win the Women's World Cup by defeating England in the finals. So, before saying anything let's take a look at the team of the tournament according to Sportz Point.

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The highest run-scorer of the edition is none other than Australia's keeper batter Alyssa Healy. She smashed the most runs (509) in the tournament. Meanwhile, her fellow teammate Rachael Haynes has also registered 497 runs as she is the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament.

South African start of the season, Laura Wolvaardt is the third batsman on this list. She has recorded 433 runs in 8 games. Meanwhile, next is the World Cup-winning skipper Meg Lanning, who has also produced 398 runs and some good knocks in the league matches.

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Now comes the main pillar of the England cricket team, Nat Sciver. Sciver has performed throughout the tournament and registered 436 runs in 8 innings (the 3rd most runs). She has also hammered 148* runs in the final of the tournament.

Beth Mooney comes at number six as she scored 330 runs in 9 innings of the tournament. At number seven it's Marizanne Kapp who has picked up 12 wickets in 8 games while also contributing with the bat.

Sophie Ecclestone has picked up 21 wickets - the most of this edition

Now it's time for the bowlers, and the first name on this list is Pooja Vastrakar. Pooja has played 7 games in which she has picked up 10 wickets with an average of 18.30. Meanwhile, the next bowler on this list is Sophie Ecclestone - the star bowler of the tournament. Ecclestone collected a record 21 wickets in 9 games and bowls with an impressive average of 15.62.

The 10th player/bowler on this list is none other than South Africa's Shabnim Ismail. She has scalped 14 wickets (second-most) in 8 games. Moreover, she maintained an average of 17.50 in the games. The last and 11th player on the list is Australian bowler Jess Johanson, who has scalped the third most wickets (13) of the tournament. She also maintained an average of 18.85 in the games.

Now let's take a fresh look at the best Playing XI of the ICC Women's World Cup 2022 including the bench.

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Team of the ICC Women's World Cup 2022:

Playing XI:

Alyssa Healy (WK)
Rachael Haynes
Laura Wolvaardt
Meg Lanning (C)
Nat Sciver
Beth Mooney
Marizanne Kapp
Pooja Vastrakar
Sophie Ecclestone
Shabnim Ismail
Jess Jonassen

Bench:

Hayley Matthews
Harmanpreet Kaur
Charlotte Dean
Alana King
Salma Khatun