India captain Harmanpreet Kaur has recaptured her place in the top 10 of the latest ICC women’s T20I batting ranking after her stellar showing in the opening T20I of the three match series against Bangladesh. Kaur’s match-winning 54 not out from 35 balls while chasing 115 has moved her four places to 10th position. Tahlia McGrath still leads with 784 rating points, closely followed by teammate Beth Mooney (777). Smriti Mandhana (728), Sophie Devine (683) and Bates (677) round out the top five.
Deepti Sharma’s economic spell of 0 for 14 in the same game took her to No. 3 in the bowlers’ list with 733 rating points, further narrowing the gap to Nonkululeko Mlaba (746) and Sophie Ecclestone (788). Among others, New Zealand star Suzie Bates, a former best hitter, returned to the top five of the batting list after moving up three places to reach fifth position on scores of 44 and 52, helping her team to a winning 2 -0 lead in their three match series in Sri Lanka.
In the latest update, West Indies skipper Hayley Matthews, who was named ‘player of the series’ for his contributions with both bat and ball against Ireland, moved five places to 17th in the batters.
She had scores of 37, 50 and 48, while her eight wickets in the series have lifted her three places to seventh among bowlers.
She also has a career-best 422 rating points in the all-rounders list, but remains second, behind Australia’s Ashleigh Gardner with 435 rating points.
Matthews has been the best all-rounder in the past, taking the No. 1 ranking for the first time in October 2017.
New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr is another all-rounder who does well. She has moved up two places to 15th among batsmen after scores of 34 and 33 not out and moved up three places to 11th among bowlers after taking two wickets in the first match. She has also moved up one spot to third among all-rounders.
Other hitters who can win in the T20I rankings are England’s Danni Wyatt (moved up three places to 14th) and Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry (moved up six places to 25th).
The bowling rankings include New Zealand pacer Lea Tuhuhu (up two places to sixth), New Zealand spinner Fran Jonas (up three places to 16th) and Sri Lanka’s left arm sailor Udeshika Prabodhani (up eight places to 28th). ) all progressed.
In the ODI Player Rankings, Thai opener Natthakan Chantham has moved up seven places to 22nd after scores of 65 and 64 and captain Naruemol Chaiwi has moved up seven places to 36th.
Dutch seam bowler Iris Zwilling has moved up eight places to 41st after taking five wickets in two matches.
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