{"id":194297,"date":"2026-07-17T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194297"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:10:36","slug":"claire-taylor-the-mathematician-who-rewrote-crickets-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194297","title":{"rendered":"Claire Taylor: The mathematician who rewrote cricket\u2019s record books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71235585\">Claire Taylor\u2019s eyes turn towards the wicket at Lord\u2019s as she talks about one of her most famous innings. It was there on that pitch with a well-known slope she made that 156 not out, after all.<\/p>\n<p>That remains the highest ODI score \u2014 for men or women \u2014 at Lord\u2019s. Her innings came against India in 2006. The previous best score at the home of cricket had belonged to a certain Sir Viv Richards (138 not out: yes, that iconic knock against England in the final of the 1979 World Cup).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJhulan Goswami was absolutely unplayable that day,\u201d Taylor tells        <i>Sportstar<\/i>. \u201cThere was an early wicket and I went in. I couldn\u2019t get bat on ball. She was metronomic. If there is a female bowler that you could compare to Glenn McGrath, it is Jhulan. But she was too good that day. If she had been worse, I might have got an edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is one of the several brilliant innings Taylor played in her 12-year-old international career that saw her turn out 168 times for England. She scored four hundreds and two fifties in the 15 Tests she played. She also hit eight hundreds in ODIs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"verticle article-picture center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ss-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/xpeocq\/article71235594.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/image%20-%202026-07-17T221434.747.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/ss-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/xpeocq\/article71235594.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/image%20-%202026-07-17T221434.747.jpg\" alt=\"Englands\u00a0Claire\u00a0Taylor\u00a0with the International Cricket Council Womens\u2019s Cricketer of The Year Award at The ICC Awards in 2009. \u00a0\" title=\"Englands\u00a0Claire\u00a0Taylor\u00a0with the International Cricket Council Womens\u2019s Cricketer of The Year Award at The ICC Awards in 2009. \u00a0\" class=\" lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pic-caption\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption align-text-bottom\"> Englands\u00a0Claire\u00a0Taylor\u00a0with the International Cricket Council Womens\u2019s Cricketer of The Year Award at The ICC Awards in 2009. \u00a0<br \/>\n                                                            | Photo Credit:<br \/>\n                                AP\n                            <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption-image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsss.thehindu.com\/theme\/images\/SSRX\/lightbox-info.svg\" alt=\"lightbox-info\"\/><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n<p>                            Englands\u00a0Claire\u00a0Taylor\u00a0with the International Cricket Council Womens\u2019s Cricketer of The Year Award at The ICC Awards in 2009. \u00a0<br \/>\n                                                            | Photo Credit:<br \/>\n                                AP\n                                                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2009, she was the Player-of-the-Series in both the World Cups England won \u2014 in the ODI and T20I formats, scoring 324 and 199 runs, respectively. That year, she also became the first woman to be chosen as one of Wisden\u2019s Cricketers of the Year, breaking a century-old tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t something I ever expected,\u201d recalls Taylor, who studied Mathematics at Oxford and left a lucrative IT job at Procter &amp; Gamble for the sake of cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Scyld Berry, the Wisden editor, said, \u2018Come, can I meet you for lunch?\u2019 I just thought he wanted to talk about the upcoming World Cup. And for that first half hour, we just talked about the World Cup. Then he said, I want to name you as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. It was, of course, for my performance in 2008, when I was basically never out. We chased every game and won\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 17, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/womens-cricket\/claire-taylor-mathematician-england-women-cricket-legend-record-viv-richards-achievements-bios\/article71235585.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Taylor\u2019s eyes turn towards the wicket at Lord\u2019s as she talks about one of her most famous innings. It was there on that pitch with a well-known slope she made that 156 not out, after all. That remains the highest ODI score \u2014 for men or women \u2014 at Lord\u2019s. Her innings came against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/claire.taylor.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193090,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193090","url_meta":{"origin":194297,"position":0},"title":"India Women\u2019s Test Matches Since the 2000s: Full list and results after historic Lord\u2019s victory","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 13, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"India vs England (2002) \u2013 KD Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow, India - match drawn India Women vs England Women in a Women\u2019s Test at Lucknow ended in a draw, with India finishing just shy of England\u2019s total. 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