ICC Women’s T20I rankings: Shafali returns to top-10 batters list

India opener Shafali Verma returned to the top-10 batters list in the latest ICC Women’s T20I rankings on Tuesday.

Shafali scored 176 runs at a strike rate of 158.56 in the five-match T20I series against England and finished as the second-highest run-getter behind fellow opener Smriti Mandhana.

The 21-year-old was the star with the bat, top-scoring with 75 off 41 in India’s last-ball defeat and has jumped four spots to ninth place with 655 points.

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Arundhati Reddy, another important player for Indian in its 3-2 series win with six wickets, leapt four spots to the 39th place in the bowling Rankings and 26 spots to 80th among the all-rounders.

England spinner Charlie Dean broke into the top 10 bowling rankings after a Player of the Match-winning figures of 3/23 in the last T20I, making a leap of eight spots to share sixth place with Nashra Sandhu and Georgia Wareham.

Linsey Smith also gained nine places to the 38th place while pacer Issy Wong jumped seven places to the 50th. Emily Arlott, who debuted for England earlier this summer against the West Indies, improved 15 places to 67th.

Sophia Dunkley, who was England’s top scorer with 151 runs, gained seven points to 19th place in the batting rankings after vital contributions of 22 and 46 in the last two games.