Top 10 Women Cricketers with Fastest Centuries in ODI

In the past decade, women's cricket has evolved leaps and bounds. As of 2025, women's cricket has also become more dynamic and has reached a wider audience. If we talk about the women batters, they have evolved into dominating players, displaying bold batting in all forms of cricket, especially in the ODI format. Earlier, women's cricket used to be less interesting and didn't get much hype and attention as men's cricket.

But today, with the contributions of many notable cricketers, women's cricket has gained the same level of respect. The women cricketers, such as Meg Lanning, Beth Mooney, and Smriti Mandhana, have given many such iconic performances in the international format, which highlight their skills. These players have showcased extraordinary skill, power, and precision, reaching 100 runs in record time. Their aggressive stroke play and ability to dominate bowlers have turned the matches around. In this article, we will list the fastest century in women's ODI cricket.

List of Women Cricketers with Fastest Century in ODI

10. Charlotte Edwards | England

Charlotte Edwards is the second British batter who has smashed the Fastest Century in ODI by scoring in just 70 balls against the New Zealand cricket team in 2011.

9. Maia Lewis | New Zealand

Maia Lewis, another Kiwi batter who is part of the list of Women Cricketers with the Fastest Century in ODI by smashing a century in just 68 balls.

8. Nat Sciver-Brunt | England

Nat Sciver-Brunt is also a part of this list, where she has scored a century in just 66 balls against the Sri Lankan women's cricket team.

7. Maddy Green | New Zealand

Maddy Green is also in the list of women cricketers who smashed the fastest century in WODIs by scoring in just 62 balls against the Ireland women's cricket team in 2018.

6. Chamari Athapaththu | Sri Lanka

Chamari Athapaththu is the second Asian cricketer to be in the list of the fastest centuries by women in ODI, where she smashed it in just 60 balls against the New Zealand cricket team in 2023.

5. Sophie Devine | New Zealand

Sophie Devine, a Kiwi batter, scored a century in just 59 balls against the Ireland women's cricket team in 2018, showing her class in batting at the international level.

4. Karen Rolton | Australia

Karen Rolton, an Australian veteran batter, is also in the list to smash a quick century, where she only took 57 balls to score a ton against the South African women's cricket team in 2000.

3. Beth Mooney | Australia

Beth Mooney, another Australian star batter, joined the list as the third fastest hundred in women's cricket by smashing in just 57 balls against the Indian women's cricket team.

2. Smriti Mandhana | India

Smriti Mandhana, the Indian star batter, scored a tremendous century in just 50 balls against the Australian Women's cricket team in the same match, Beth Mooney joined the list of fastest centuries by women in ODIs.

1 . Meg Lanning | Australia

Meg Lanning, the Australian batter, showed her class in batting when she smashed the fastest century in women's cricket by scoring in just 45 balls against the New Zealand women's cricket team in 2012.

Ranking Factors

The ranking should be done on some specific and universal factors. Based on these ranking factors, we will rank the top 10 fastest centuries in Women's ODI history.

• Least Balls to Reach Century: For ranking the top 10 fastest centuries in Women's ODI history, we have to take into account the fewest balls taken by the batters to reach their century.
• More 6s and 4s: We have sub-categorized the women players by the most sixes and fours, if they have completed the century in the same number of balls played.