Smriti Mandhana remains No. 1 batter in ICC ODI rankings:Harmanpreet Kaur retains eighth spot, Jemimah Rodrigues slips to 12th

Smriti Mandhana retained her spot at the top of the rankings for ODI batters, as per the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings on Tuesday, 10 March. Mandhana and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur are the only two Indians in the top 10. On 8 March, the Indian women’s team ended their tour of Australia with a crushing 10-wicket defeat to the hosts in a one-off Day-Night Test match. While India defeated Australia 2-1 in the T20Is, the reigning world champions suffered a 0-3 whitewash in the ODI series. Smriti Mandhana remains on top, Jemimah Rodrigues slips The left-hander continued her stay at the top of the ODI rankings, with 790 rating points to her name. South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt sits second on the list with 782 rating points. There was no change in Harmanpreet Kaur’s eighth spot. Mandhana scored 89 runs in three matches while Harmanpreet struck 132, with a highest score of 54. Meanwhile, Jemimah Rodrigues slipped to the 12th spot from 11th. The right-hander managed just 61 runs in three matches. New Zealand players gain big in latest rankings A number of New Zealand women’s team players made big gains in the latest rankings. The White Ferns have gained an unassailable 2-0 lead over Zimbabwe in a three-match ODI series. Captain Amelia Kerr has gained five spots to move to 11th in the latest rankings for women’s ODI bowlers after picking up 11 wickets in just two matches, which included a seventh-wicket haul in the second ODI. She also moved up one spot to go in fifth place in the ODI all-rounders’ rankings. Also read: Jasprit Bumrah likely to play more ODIs than T20Is: Star pacer’s workload to be managed with 2027 ODI World Cup in focus Kerr’s teammate, Brooke Halliday, moved up eight spots to be now ranked 11th in ICC women’s ODI batting rankings after a superb 157* in the series opener. Maddy Green also gained four places to the 22nd rank after hitting 94 runs in two matches. Changes in women’s T20I rankings as well There were changes in women’s T20I rankings as well. Sri Lanka batter Hasini Perera moved to the 28th place, gaining 15 spots after an unbeaten half-century in the last match of the series. Imesha Dulani gained 17 spots to move to 72nd after 34* in the series finale. Her teammate Kavisha Dilhari also rose in the rankings for T20I bowlers (up three spots to 21st) and all-rounders (up two places to 11th). West Indies was Afy Fletcher, however, was the biggest gainer as the veteran spinner climbed four rungs to seventh overall on the list for T20I bowlers after taking three wickets in two matches against Sri Lanka.