Lanning enjoyed a glittering international career with Australia after making her debut aged 18, and scored a century in only her second game against England.<\/p>\n
She was made captain at 21 and would be part of a hugely successful side, winning two World Cups, five World T20s and a Commonwealth Games gold medal.<\/p>\n
The batter has been a regular in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) down under for Melbourne Stars, and at the forefront of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) in India.<\/p>\n
Lanning was the leading run-scorer for Delhi Capitals during the inaugural 2023 season and led them to the final the following two years before switching to UP Warriorz for the current edition.<\/p>\n
She appeared in The Hundred for London Spirit and Oval Invincibles, and will now play for Lancashire in a competition beginning late May.<\/p>\n
“This is a hugely significant signing for Lancashire Thunder, and for the county game as a whole,” said Lancashire director of women’s cricket David Thorley.<\/p>\n
“Meg is not only one of the finest batters of her generation, but one of the most influential leaders the women’s game has ever seen. <\/p>\n
“Her record as Australia captain speaks for itself, and her presence will have an immediate and lasting impact on our squad and the club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lanning enjoyed a glittering international career with Australia after making her debut aged 18, and scored a century…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}