1978 Women's Cricket World Cup

The 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup was an international cricket tournament played in India from 1 to 13 January 1978. Hosted by India for the first time, it was the second edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup, and came over four years after the inaugural 1973 World Cup in England.
It was originally proposed that South Africa host the World Cup, but this was abandoned to conform with the sporting boycott of the country. The Women's Cricket Association of India then made a successful bid, and served as the primary organiser, with the International Women's Cricket Council providing only limited oversight. Along with India, which was making its debut, five other teams were originally invited – Australia, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the West Indies. The Netherlands and the West Indies, which had both not previously participated, were forced to withdraw due to financial issues. The four teams that did compete played a round-robin tournament of three matches each, with Australia going undefeated to claim its first title. Australia's captain, Margaret Jennings, led the tournament in runs, while her teammate, Sharyn Hill, led the tournament in wickets.

Squads

Information is only available for players who played at least one match at the tournament.


Margaret Jennings Elaine Bray Marie Cornish Valerie Farrell Lorraine Hill Sharyn Hill Wendy Hills Jan Lumsden Julie Stockton Raelee Thompson Janette Tredrea Sharon Tredrea Peta Verco	Mary Pilling Jacqueline Court Heather Dewdney Rosalind Heggs Shirley Hodges Glynis Hullah Megan Lear Catherine Mowat Lynne Thomas Chris Watmough Margaret Wilks	Diana Edulji Gargi Banerji Runa Basu Lopamudra Bhattacharj Sharmila Chakraborty Rajeshwari Dholakia Susan Itticheria Nilima Jogalekar Fowzieh Khalili Shubhangi Kulkarni Sandhya Mazumdar Ujwala Nikam Shobha Pandit Kalpan Paropkari Sudha Shah Anjali Sharma	Trish McKelvey Liz Allan Eileen Badham Barbara Bevege Vicki Burtt Pat Carrick Sheree Harris Cheryl Henshilwood Linda Lindsay Karen Marsh Sue Rattray Edna Ryan Viv Sexton

Venues

Warm-up matches

At least five warm-up matches were played against various local Indian teams, all but one of which came before the tournament.
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Group stage

Points table

Note: run rate was to be used as a tiebreaker in the case of teams finishing on an equal number of points, rather than net run rate.
Matches

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Both Australia and England went into the last match of the tournament undefeated, which meant it functioned as a de facto final, akin to the Uruguay v Brazil match at the 1950 Football World Cup. England's Megan Lear later recounted that the "most memorable part of tournament was playing in front of crowds of 40,000 plus".

Statistics

Most runs

The top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.

Player	Team	Runs	Inns	Avg	Highest	100s	50s
Margaret Jennings		127	3	63.50	57*	0	1
Barbara Bevege		126	3	63.00	67*	0	2
Lynne Thomas		109	3	54.50	47	0	0
Sharon Tredrea		87	2	43.50	56	0	1
Wendy Hills		66	3	22.00	64	0	1

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Most wickets

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

Player	Team	Overs	Wkts	Ave	SR	Econ	BBI
Sharyn Hill		30.0	7	7.57	25.71	1.76	3/16
Sharon Tredrea		25.0	6	7.00	25.00	1.68	4/25
Pat Carrick		29.0	6	17.66	29.00	3.65	3/43
Glynis Hullah		21.1	5	6.80	25.40	1.60	2/2
Peta Verco		23.0	5	7.40	27.60	1.60	3/9