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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

India's Shafali Verma (16) rises to top in ICC women’s T20 rankings Wednesday March 04,2020

Shafali Verma, India’s teenage sensation who has been riding on her spectacular perfromance at the ongoing T20 World Cup, rose to the top spot in the ICC women’s T20 International rankings on Wednesday March 04,2020

The 16-year-old replaced New Zealand’s Suzie Bates at the top, who had been the top batter since October 2018. Shafali scored 161 runs in four innings to become the only Indian batter other than Mithali Raj to reach the top of ICC women’s T20I batting rankings

Shafali will now take on England as the top-ranked batter, facing top-ranked bowler Sophie Ecclestone on Thursday March 05,2020

Smriti Mandhana, however, has slipped to the 6th position in the latest list.

Among the Indian bowlers, Poonam Yadav is up four places to 8th after a good run in World Cup

Deepti Sharma has advanced nine places to 7th, making it to the top 10 in the all-rounders’ list for the first time after also moving up to 53rd among batters.

Australia remain at the top of the T20I team rankings with 290 points and England in 2nd position with 278

New Zealand captain Sophie Devine is now the sole number one all-rounder after coming into the tournament as a joint number one along with Australia all-rounder Ellyse Perry.


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