Meg Lanning calls the thrashing of England her career best as her team helps put gloss on a terrible year for the Australian game
It wasn’t the type of image that we are conditioned to seeing: Meg Lanning, legs splayed around the midriff of Ashleigh Gardner as the World T20 winning runs were struck. The Australian captain’s comparative advantage across her celebrated career to date has been control, be it at the crease or behind the mic, underpinned by her peerless powers of concentration. Yet here she was, instinctively giving herself over to the moment, completely and entirely.
And why wouldn’t she? Sure, Lanning has been part of many successful Australian teams and is in the middle of a career that will most than likely end up the most productive in the history of the women’s game. But this was a triumph that stretched well beyond putting together a couple of clinical weeks of tournament cricket. That is why it was, she acknowledges, the best moment of her cricket life.
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