Australia’s 3-0 series victory versus South Africa this week brings to a close the largest international cricket tournament ever staged – 84 matches* played over 2½ years – offering the perfect opportunity to pull-together some pretty definitive rankings for batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders.

There will be little surprise as to who tops the batting rankings – Wisden’s 2014 women’s award winner, Meg Lanning, who scored 5 centuries and another 5 fifties in the championship, amassing well over 1000 runs in total.

The good news for the opposition though is that if you get Lanning out… in walks Ellyse Perry, ranked at No. 3 on our list! Martin Davies from WCB commented to us the other day that Perry is becoming more and more a batsman who bowls a bit, and there is little doubt that she would merit selection in anyone’s World XI, even if she didn’t bowl at all.

Only one batsman finished the tournament with a Strike Rate over 100 – Nat Sciver – the highest-ranked England player at No. 7. Though a few tail-enders also achieved a Strike Rate of 100+ on a handful of innings, Sciver did it across 16 innings, scoring 533 runs in total, including 6 fifties.

Also worth a mention are Chamari Atapattu and Javeria Khan, ranked at 14 and 15 respectively – it is one thing to score your runs against Pakistan and Sri Lanka (76% of Tammy Beaumont’s runs came against those two bottom-placed sides) but arguably more impressive to score them for those sides against the higher-ranked teams. (For the record, just 27% of Atapattu’s runs came against Pakistan, and only 27% (sic.) of Javeria’s runs were scored v Sri Lanka.)

Ranking = Runs * Strike Rate

* In theory at least – though of course a few of those matches weren’t actually played! The next largest was the 1997 ICC Trophy – 82 matches, excluding warm-ups – thanks to Peter Griffiths of cricketarchive.com for the info on this!