Jemimah, Anuja make big gains in ICC ODI rankings

Rodrigues, who made her international debut in February this year, has after just 14 T20Is sealed the No.14 ranking on the MRF Tyres ICC T20I rankings for batters. She made 191 runs in four innings in Sri Lanka, for an average of 63.66 and a healthy strike rate of 155.28. Her feats saw her shoot up the rankings by a remarkable 46 places, having accumulated 518 ranking points.

For both teams, the series was an opportunity to finalise their plans for the ICC Women’s World T20 2018 in the West Indies in November, and they will both be pleased with the performances of some of their rising stars as well as the big names. India’s young guns played winning hands, and this reflected in the rankings. Taniya Bhatia, the wicket-keeper batter, rose 32 places to No.82 on the batting charts, while among bowlers Radha Yadav climbed 56 spots to No.59 and Arundhati Reddy made a debut at 106. 

Their more experienced all-rounders proved their worth as well. Deepti Sharma is No.31 (up 20) among bowlers and 33 (up 12) among all-rounders. Anuja Patil, who finished the series with five wickets and 99 runs, is now India’s best all-rounder in the format at No.12, after also gaining in the batting (up 18 to 37th) and bowling (up two to 15th) charts.

Poonam Yadav, the leg-spinner, whose eight wickets in the series helped her overtake Jhulan Goswami as the highest T20I wicket-taker of all time for India, retained her second place in the rankings for bowlers, behind Australia’s Megan Schutt. Her 646 ranking points were a career-high for her. Harmanpreet Kaur, who scored 63 off 38 balls in the final T20I, climbed up one spot to No.6, displacing her senior Mithali Raj.