All-rounder Ellyse Perry became the first Australian woman to take 300 international wickets after she dismissed India’s Pooja Vastrakar on day three of the four-day pink-ball test on the Gold Coast yesterday.
Perry sent off Vastrakar (13) in the 143rd over as Beth Mooney pulled off a stunning catch at gully. Perry is currently third on the list of women with the most wickets, behind India’s Jhulan Goswami (337) and England’s Katherine Brunt (301).
The 30-year-old is also the first woman with the double of 5,000 runs and 300 wickets in international cricket.
India declared on 377 for eight in their first innings, shortly after the dinner break yesterday. Teammate Alyssa Healy was delighted with Perry’s milestone.
“It’s another incredible achievement. She’s checking off things left, right and centre. We have to keep stopping the day’s play to make sure we celebrate everything Pez has done,” Healy said.
“It shows the sort of person she is when the umpire threw me the ball after the innings and I said ‘Pez, do you want it, it’s your 300th wicket’, and she said ‘no, give it to Stella (Campbell), it’s her first’.”