Sarah Taylor's International career in numbers

Sarah Taylor announced her retirement from the International cricket on Friday and put an end to her 13-year career for the England Women. Sarah is hailed as one of the best wicket-keepers and probably the best stumper in Women’s cricket. As a player, she witnessed England lifting two ODI World Cups – in 2009 and in 2017. She was also part of the inaugural Women’s T20 CWC edition in 2009 which England won at home. Taylor featured in 226 International matches and affected 227 dismissals alongside scoring 6533 runs with seven hundreds and 36 half-centuries.

All the major records and numbers from Sarah Taylor’s 13-year long career in International cricket:

1 – No player other than Sarah Taylor (214) has featured in as many as 200 Women’s International matches as a wicket-keeper. She played 88 T20Is and 118 ODIs as a keeper; which makes her the most capped keeper in both the formats. Taylor also kept wickets in 8 Test matches.

1 – Sarah is also the only wicket-keeper in Women’s cricket to have affected over 100 stumpings. She affected 51 each in ODIs and T20Is and a couple of them in the Test cricket.

2 – Sarah has recorded the 2nd highest individual score by a keeper in both ODIs and T20Is in Women’s cricket. She scored 147 during the 2017 CWC game against South Africa in Bristol which is also the highest score by a keeper in Women’s World Cup.

Taylor scored 77 in the 2013 Chelmsford T20I against Australia which was the then highest Women’s T20I score. UAE’s Esha Rohit surpassed it earlier this year with her 82-run knock against China. Sarah was the first keeper to score a fifty in Women’s WT20 and recorded the highest score in the competition with her unbeaten 65 against Australia in the 2012 edition.

6 – Sarah Taylor has scored six centuries as keeper in ODI cricket while no other Woman has even struck more than two ODI tons.

51 – Sarah stands as the only keeper with 50+ stumpings in T20I cricket across both Men’s and Women’s cricket. When it comes to ODIs, she and India’s Anju Jain are the only keepers with 50+ stumpings in Women’s ODI cricket. Both finished their respective careers with exactly 51 stumpings.

227 – Sarah Taylor holds the record for most dismissals in Women’s International cricket having affected as many as 227. She also leads the list in Women’s T20Is with 74 dismissals and is 2nd with 136 dismissals in Women’s ODIs.

2106 – Sarah amassed 2106 runs in her T20I career as a wicket-keeper; the only player with 2000+ runs as a keeper in T20I format across Men’s and Women’s cricket. She has struck 15 fifties in the 88 T20Is as a keeper which are also the most fifty-plus T20I scores for any keeper.

4056 – She is one of the nine players with 4000+ runs in Women’s ODI cricket but the quickest to the milestone in terms of balls taken (4873). She scored 3813 of those runs as a keeper and is the only Woman with 3000+ ODI runs as a keeper.

6533 – Sarah’s 6533 runs in International cricket are the 2nd most by any player for England Women. Charlotte Edwards occupies the top spot with 10273 runs. Taylor scored 6147 of her runs while keeping the wickets while no other player has even scored 4000 runs in Women’s Internationals as a keeper.