Captain Mithali Raj fell one place in the ICC Women ODI batter rankings released on Tuesday. Star opener Smriti Mandhana moved up one place to ninth.
A bad performance at the Women’s World Cup caused Mithali to fall. She now has 686 points, down one place from before. From seven games, he scored 182 runs with an average of 26.
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When Mandhana (669 points) played seven games, he scored 327 runs, with the best score of 123, and he averaged 46.7 in the match.
Vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur moved up one place to 14th. The two of them also moved up one place. This is how Harmanpreet has been for India in the World Cup: 318 runs from seven games. It was 109.
In the final against England, Australian keeper Alyssa Healy hit an incredible 170. She moved to the top of the list of batters because of this great score.
The Australian hit a great shot that sent her to the top of the rankings, ending South African opener Laura Wolvaardt’s short reign at the top of the rankings.
It took 32-year-old Healy nine games at the World Cup to score 509 runs, including two hundred and two half-centuries. At a strike rate of 103.66, that’s a lot of runs per game.
Healy came in just ahead of her friend, Rachael Haynes, to be the top scorer.
Australians Beth Mooney, Meg Lanning, Haynes, and Healy are all in the top six of the ODI rankings.
An all-rounder for England, Nat Sciver scored an unbeaten 148 not out in the world Cup final. She moved to second place in the batting rankings because of the score.
The English star also took the top spot in the all-rounder rankings, beating out Ellyse Perry. Sophie Ecclestone, a spinner from England, kept her place at the top of the bowler rankings. Shabnim Ismail, a South African pacer, moved up to second after having a great tournament.
Anya Shrubsole, a long-time swing bowler, moved up five places in the latest rankings. She bowled 2/27 in the semi-final and 3/46 in the final to move into the top 10.
Veteran Indian bowler Jhulan Goswami stayed in fifth place. Goswami also held on to her 10th place in the all-rounders’ rankings, with another Indian, Deepti Sharma, at the top of the list at 7.
