India’s Sree Charani has set a new record for the highest-ever rating in the ICC Women’s T20I Bowling Rankings, with the left-arm spinner reaching a career-best 817 points following her impressive performances in Japan.
At the Asian Games, Charani achieved her career-best performance of 4/10 against Japan and helped India to reach the semifinals. She then secured two wickets in the gold-medal match versus Sri Lanka, which India won by 147 runs, raising her rating to the record high of 817 points. Smriti Mandhana, India’s opening batter, moved back into the top five of the ICC Women’s T20I Batting Rankings following her score of 79 in the final of the Asian Games against Sri Lanka. Hayley Matthews, all-rounder for the West Indies, moved up three places to fourth in the ODI Batting Rankings after accumulating 711 points, although she is still three points away from her best-ever rating of 714. This improvement came on the back of her record-breaking score of 182 in the first ODI.
In the Asia Cup, Charani took 12 wickets, including a remarkable performance of 4/20 in the final match against Sri Lanka, helping India win the game by 72 runs and thus securing the title for the eighth time. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s Nyasha Gwanzura reached a significant position in the ODI Bowling Rankings, having played a decisive part in her team’s win in the second ODI; she scored 18 not out and achieved bowling figures of 4/33, which were her best ever, and thus moved up 52 places to 156th. Alana King is at the top of the ODI Bowling Rankings with 753 points, and Beth Mooney is leading the T20I Batting Rankings with 785 points. After her performance as Player-of-the-Tournament in the T20 World Cup final, Mooney has regained the lead from her Australia teammate Georgia Voll, who has 779 points. Mandhana is still in the number one position in the ODI Batting Rankings with 790 points, having scored eight points more than South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt, who has 782.
