New Zealand and South Africa clashed in the final match of the Women's T20 World Cup 2024. In this, the New Zealand team won and won the match by 32 runs and won the trophy. All-rounder Amelia Kerr played the most important role in this victory of the Kiwi team. Kerr showed his strength with ball and bat in the final match. He played an important inning of 43 runs in the first 38 balls and helped the team score 158 runs. During the bowling, South Africa took 3 wickets by giving only 24 wickets in 4 overs. On the basis of his all-round performance, the team won the title for the first time. During this period he also accomplished two big feats.

This happened for the first time in T20 World Cup

Amelia Kerr was chosen player of the match for her all-round performance in the final match. He scored 135 runs and also took 15 wickets in the entire tournament. She was the best performing player in the entire tournament, for which she was also given the Player of the Tournament award. With this, she has become the first player in the history of Women's T20 World Cup to win both these awards simultaneously.

Before Amelia, no player has received Player of the Match and Player of the Tournament simultaneously. Amelia Kerr made another record in the final. She became the first woman player to score more than 40 runs and take 3 or more wickets in a T20 knockout match. Not only this, she is also only the sixth female player to score more than 40 runs and take more than 3 wickets in the T20 World Cup.

Broke 10 year old record

Amelia Kerr managed to take a total of 15 wickets during the tournament and became the highest wicket taker of this tournament. With this feat, Kerr broke a 10 year old record. In fact, she has become the highest wicket-taker in a single edition of the Women's T20 World Cup. Earlier this record was in the name of Anya Shrubshole of England. He took a total of 13 wickets in the 2014 edition. In the 2020 edition, Megan Schutt equaled this record by taking 13 wickets. But she was unsuccessful in breaking it.