Dubai: Australia women’s cricket team all-rounder Ashley Gardner has overtaken West Indies captain Hayley Mathews, India Deepti Sharma and New Zealand captain Sophie Devine to become a career-best number one in the list of all-rounders in the ICC (International Cricket Council) Women’s T20 International rankings released on Tuesday. Rank achieved.
Gardner, who played a key role in Australia’s 4-1 win in the five-match series against India, took two wickets for 20 runs after scoring an unbeaten 66 off 32 balls in the last T20 International. She reached the top spot in the rankings with an improvement of three places. Devine (389) and Deepti (387) are second and third respectively in this table after Gardner (417 points). Mathews (381) has slipped two places to fourth.
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The 25-year-old also managed to achieve the best ranking in the list of batsmen and bowlers in the latest rankings. She improved two places to seventh in the batsmen’s rankings and 14th in the bowlers’ list. Ranked third in the all-rounders’ list, Deepti is also at the same position (387 points) in the bowlers’ rankings. Deepti, who scored an innings of 53 runs in 34 balls in the fifth T20 International, is ranked 29th in the rankings for batsmen.
India’s Smriti Mandhana is third in the batsmen’s list with 727 points. In this, Tahlia McGrath of Australia is at the top with 814 points. In second place is her compatriot Beth Mooney (760 points). India’s Jemimah Rodrigues (607) has slipped two places to 12th in the rankings for batsmen. (agency)