Ellyse Perry vs Nat Sciver-Brunt: Comparing Batting And All-Round Stats

Ellyse Perry and Nat Sciver-Brunt are the two best all-rounders in women’s cricket and comparing them across every format reveals just how close and how different they are at the same time. Perry is Australia’s great fast-medium bowling batter.

Sciver-Brunt is England’s right-arm medium bowling match-winner. The stats across Test, ODI, and T20I cricket determines who is the better all-rounder between the two.

Test Cricket

Test Batting Stats

Perry leads here and it is not close. In 15 Tests, she has scored 1006 runs at an average of 59.2 with a highest score of 213 not out. Nat Sciver-Brunt has played 12 Tests and scored 883 runs at 46.5, with a highest of 169 not out.

Both players have two centuries and five fifties. Perry’s average is 12 runs higher and her highest score is more than 40 runs greater. Perry is the superior Test batter.

Player	Mat	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s
Nat Sciver-Brunt	12	20	1	883	169*	46.5	1608	54.9	2	5	116	0
Ellyse Perry	15	24	7	1006	213*	59.2	2156	46.7	2	5	129	2

Test Bowling Stats

This is where the gap becomes much bigger. Perry has taken 39 Test wickets at an average of 21.8 with a best of 6/32 and two five-wicket hauls. Sciver-Brunt has 12 Test wickets at 38.4 with a best of 3/41 and no five-wicket hauls.

Perry’s strike rate in Tests is 52.9 against Sciver-Brunt’s 88.1. Perry bowls wickets more than twice as quickly in the longest format. In Test cricket, Perry wins both departments.

Player	Mat	Inn	Balls	Mdn	Runs	Wkts	BB	Econ	Avg	SR	4W	5W
Nat Sciver-Brunt	12	17	1057	44	461	12	3/41	2.62	38.4	88.1	0	0
Ellyse Perry	15	23	2061	79	851	39	6/32	2.48	21.8	52.9	1	2

ODI Cricket

ODI Batting Stats

Sciver-Brunt reduces the gap considerably in 50-over cricket. She averages 46.3 from 129 matches with 4354 runs, 10 centuries, and a strike rate of 94.7. Perry averages 48.2 from 168 matches with 4581 runs but only 3 centuries and a strike rate of 78.6.

Sciver-Brunt has scored 10 ODI hundreds to Perry’s three. Her strike rate of 94.7 compared to Perry’s 78.6 shows that Sciver-Brunt scores faster and turns her starts into big scores more often in this format. Sciver-Brunt slightly wins the ODI batting comparison.

Player	Mat	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s
Nat Sciver-Brunt	129	114	20	4354	148*	46.3	4599	94.7	10	26	472	30
Ellyse Perry	168	140	45	4581	112*	48.2	5826	78.6	3	37	404	53

ODI Bowling Stats

Perry has 166 ODI wickets at an average of 25.6 with a best of 7/22 and three five-wicket hauls. Sciver-Brunt has 88 ODI wickets at 31.1 with a best of 4/59 and no five-wicket hauls.

Perry’s ODI strike rate of 35.0 against Sciver-Brunt’s 41.1 means Perry takes a wicket every 35 balls while Sciver-Brunt needs 41. Perry has nearly double the wickets and is clearly the superior ODI bowler.

Player	Mat	Inn	Balls	Mdn	Runs	Wkts	BB	Econ	Avg	SR	4W	5W
Nat Sciver-Brunt	129	108	3620	37	2735	88	4/59	4.53	31.1	41.1	1	0
Ellyse Perry	168	139	5806	83	4243	166	7/22	4.38	25.6	35.0	1	3

T20 International Cricket

T20I Batting Stats

Sciver-Brunt edges this one. She has scored 2960 T20I runs at an average of 29.0 with 18 fifties and a strike rate of 119.1 from 137 matches. Perry has 2297 T20I runs at 30.2 with only 9 fifties and a strike rate of 117.2 from 174 matches.

Sciver-Brunt has played fewer games but has scored more runs and recorded twice as many fifties. The averages are similar but Sciver-Brunt’s output is much greater. Sciver-Brunt takes the T20I batting comparison.

Player	Mat	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s
Nat Sciver-Brunt	137	131	29	2960	82	29.0	2485	119.1	0	18	343	18
Ellyse Perry	174	117	41	2297	75	30.2	1959	117.2	0	9	213	49

T20I Bowling Stats

Perry has taken 127 T20I wickets at an average of 18.9 with a best of 4/12, a strike rate of 19.4, and four four-wicket hauls. Sciver-Brunt has 90 T20I wickets at 23.3 with a best of 4/15 and two four-wicket hauls.

Perry’s economy of 5.84 is also superior to Sciver-Brunt’s 6.61. Perry gives away fewer runs, takes wickets faster, and has taken 37 more wickets across a similar number of innings. Perry wins the T20I bowling comparison.

Player	Mat	Inn	Balls	Mdn	Runs	Wkts	BB	Econ	Avg	SR	4W	5W
Nat Sciver-Brunt	137	117	1902	3	2096	90	4/15	6.61	23.3	21.1	2	0
Ellyse Perry	174	139	2465	8	2400	127	4/12	5.84	18.9	19.4	4	0

Who Is the Better All-Rounder Overall?

The honest answer is Ellyse Perry. She leads in Test batting, Test bowling, ODI bowling, and T20I bowling. Her Test average of 59.2, her 166 ODI wickets, and her 127 T20I wickets make her the more complete player across all three formats.

Sciver-Brunt is the better ODI batter and offers more T20I batting output but Perry’s bowling numbers across every format are simply much better. Sciver-Brunt is one of the finest all-rounders in women’s cricket. Perry, purely based on the stats, is the best.

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