harmanpreet kaur icc ranking: Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur moves up to fifth in ICC rankings

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Tuesday jumped four places to reach the fifth spot in the ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings on the back of her stellar performance against England. She leads a group of India players who have made rapid gains in the rankings after the team’s 3-0 sweep over England.

Kaur played an unbeaten 143 not out off 111 balls in the second match at Canterbury.

Openers Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma have also gone ahead in the latest update which considers performances in the last two matches of that series as well as the IWC series between West Indies and New Zealand.

First top-order batsman Mandhana, who scored 40 and 50 runs in two matches, has moved up one place to sixth, while Sharma’s unbeaten 68 in the third match at Lord’s saw her move up eight places to 24th. Have given.

Pooja Vastrakar (up four places to 49th) and Harleen Deol (up 46 places to 81st) are second in the Indian batsmen’s list, while new-ball bowler Renuka Singh has moved up 35 places to 35th. in two matches.

Formerly top-order pacer Jhulan Goswami retired at the fifth spot.

England’s Danny Wyatt, who scored 65 runs in the second match, has moved up two places to 21st place among batsmen, while Amy Jones has gained four places to be at 30th. Charlie Dean has moved up 24 places to 62nd among batsmen and 19th among bowlers.

West Indies captain Hayley Mathews has secured the No. 1 spot for all-rounders in the ODI format for the first time in his career after scoring 88 runs and picking up a five-wicket haul in the 2-1 series win over New Zealand.

Originally published at Pen 18