Dubai: India batter Smriti Mandhana has moved closer to the top spot in both the T20I and ODI batting rankings as the left-hander sits in second place in both categories after strong performances against the West Indies in the white-ball formats.
As per the latest rankings update shared by the ICC on Tuesday, Mandhana’s ODI rating of 739 is only bettered by South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt’s 773, and her T20I rating of 753 is narrowly shaved by Australia’s Beth Mooney (757).
Mandhana, 28, moved up to No. 2 after registering the scores of 62 off 41 and 77 off 47 in the two T20Is for the week. This completes a trifecta of half-centuries against Hayley Matthews’ team in as many games.
In the first ODI in Vadodara, she scored 91 off 102, as she now boasts a 50-plus score in her last five innings in international action. Matthews, on the other hand, with scores of 85 not out off 47 and 22 off 17 in the two T20Is, jumped two spots to equal-third on the rankings, levelling with Australia’s Tahlia McGrath with a rating of 748. The Indian pair of Radha Yadav (up three places to 16th) and Shreyanka Patil (up one place to 20th) have progressed in the T20I bowling rankings.
In the ODI rankings, Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur’s 34 in Vadodara made her jump three spots into equal-tenth (631 ratings) alongside England’s Tammy Beaumont, while Australian Alyssa Healy’s scores of 39 and 34 against New Zealand saw the opener up two spots to the eighth place with a rating of 640.