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2005 Women's Cricket World Cup

Tournament in South Africa

Field	Value
name	2005 Women's Cricket World Cup
image	2005 Women's world cup logo.jpg
administrator	International Women's Cricket Council
cricket format	Women's One Day International (50 overs)
tournament format	Round-robin and Knockout
host	South Africa
fromdate	22 March
todate	10 April 2005
champions
count	5
runner up
participants	8
matches	31
player of the series	Karen Rolton
most runs	Charlotte Edwards (280)
most wickets	Neetu David (20)
previous_year	2000
previous_tournament	2000 Women's Cricket World Cup
next_year	2009
next_tournament	2009 Women's Cricket World Cup

| player of the series = Karen Rolton

The 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup was the eighth Women's Cricket World Cup, held in South Africa from 22 March to 10 April 2005. It was the first edition of the tournament to be hosted by South Africa.

The World Cup was the final tournament organised by the International Women's Cricket Council before it was merged with the International Cricket Council. Australia won the tournament, their fifth title, comfortably beating India in the final, by 98 runs. England and New Zealand (the defending champion) were the losing semi-finalists, while the other four teams that competed were Ireland, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies. Karen Rolton was named the Player of the Tournament after scoring 107* in the final of the tournament. Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, Neetu David the leading wicket-taker and Karen Rolton the player of the series.

Squads

Main article: 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup squads

Group stage

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Knockout stage

Bracket

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Semi-finals

Final

Main article: 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup Final

Statistics

Most runs

The top five run-scorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored, then by batting average, then alphabetically by surname.

Player	Runs	Inns	Avg	Highest	100s	50s
Charlotte Edwards	280	6	46.66	99	0	3
Claire Taylor	265	6	53.00	136	1	1
Karen Rolton	246	5	61.50	107*	1	1
Cri-zelda Brits	206	6	34.33	72	0	1
Mithali Raj	199	7	49.75	91*	0	2

:Source: ESPNCricinfo

Most wickets

The top five wicket-takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by bowling average.

Player	Overs	Wkts	Ave	SR	Econ	BBI
Neetu David	65.4	20	8.35	19.7	2.54	5/32
Amita Sharma	65.3	14	14.85	28.0	3.17	3/12
Jhulan Goswami	64.1	13	13.53	29.6	2.74	4/16
Shelley Nitschke	44.0	11	8.27	24.0	2.06	3/5
Louise Milliken	44.0	11	13.72	24.0	3.43	5/25

:Source: ESPNCricinfo

References

"Women's Cricket". International Cricket Council.
"International Women's Cricket Council World Cup 2004/05". CricketArchive.
"Women's World Cup 2004/05". ESPNcricinfo.
"Women's World Cup 2004/05/Table". ESPNcricinfo.
"Records / Women's World Cup, 2004/05 / Most Runs". ESPNcricinfo.
"Records / Women's World Cup, 2004/05 / Most Wickets". ESPNcricinfo.

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