1. Home
  2. Rodrigues, Mandhana advance in T20I rankings; Dottin becomes top-ranked all-rounder

Rodrigues, Mandhana advance in T20I rankings; Dottin becomes top-ranked all-rounder

Media Release
February 12, 2019

Feb 12: The India pair of Jemimah Rodrigues and Smriti Mandhana have made impressive gains among batters in the MRF Tyres ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings despite their side’s 3-0 series loss to New Zealand, while Windies all-rounder Deandra Dottin has grabbed the top spot among all-rounders in the latest update carried out on Tuesday.

Rodrigues’s 132 runs in the three-match series against New Zealand have lifted her four places to second position while Smriti Mandhana, who grabbed the top spot in ODIs last week, has gained four spots to reach sixth position after finishing as the leading run-getter in the series with an aggregate of 180. The stylish left-hander smashed two half-centuries including a fluent 86 in the last match in Hamilton that India lost by two runs.

Spinners Radha Yadav, up 18 places to 10th after taking four wickets in the series, and Deepti Sharma, up five places to 14th, are the India players to move up among bowlers.

For New Zealand, Sophie Devine has moved from 11th to eighth position among batters after scoring 153 runs in the series including a match-winning 72 in the last match, while captain Amy Satterthwaite’s 87 runs have lifted her from 23rd to 17th position. Among bowlers, Lea Tahuhu has moved up five slots to 11th position.

For the Windies, Dottin has been the standout performer in a 2-1 series win in Pakistan. Dottin has moved up two places to third among batters after scoring 158 runs in the series while her three wickets have lifted her two slots to 29th among bowlers. The net result has been a promotion to No.1 in the list of all-rounders.

Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof has gained three slots to tie with compatriot Javeria Khan in 15th position among batters while Sana Mir, who is top ranked in the ODI format, has moved up six places to take 28th position among T20I bowlers after taking three wickets in the series.

South Africa completed a 3-0 win over Sri Lanka in a home series ahead of their ICC Women’s Championship series. The gains for them include captain Dane van Niekerk moving up three slots to reach a career-best 12th among batters, up six places to 20th among bowlers and up two berths among all-rounders to third. The pace pair of Shabnim Ismail (up four places to seventh) and Marizanne Kappe (up seven places to 22nd) are other notable gainers. For Sri Lanka, Shashikala Siriwardene has benefited by four places to reach 30th position.

Other players to advance include Esha Oza of the United Arab Emirates (up 44 places to 46th) among batters and the Thailand pair of Chanida Sutthiruang (up 15 places to 38th) and Nattaya Boochatham (40th) among bowlers.

In the MRF Tyres ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings, New Zealand have overtaken England to take second place. ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2018 champions Australia continue to lead the table while the Windies and India, semifinalists at the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean, are fourth and fifth, respectively.

MRF Tyres ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings (as of 12 February 2019)

Batters (Top 20)

Rank      (+/-)      Player                   Team     Pts          Avge      S/R         Highest Rating

1              ( - )         Suzie Bates         NZ          765         30.69     112         767 v Pak at Guyana 2018

2              (+4)        J. Rodrigues        Ind         737         34.88     129         742 v NZ at Auckland 2019

3              (+2)        Deandra Dottin Win        727         26.6        127         731 v Eng at Bridgetown 2013

4              ( - )         Meg Lanning      Aus        695         34.04     117         783 v Win at Melbourne 2014

5              (-3)         Stafanie Taylor  Win        694         35.68     105         817 v NZ at St Lucia 2010

6              (+4)        S. Mandhana     Ind         693!       25.02     118         693 v NZ at Hamilton 2019

7              (-4)         H. Kaur              Ind            687         28.08     105         715 v Aus at Guyana 2018

8              (+3)        Sophie Devine   NZ          669!       27.92     125         669 v Ind at Hamilton 2019

9              (-2)         Beth Mooney    Aus        663         31.69     120         747 v Ind at Mumbai 2018

10           (-1)         Alyssa Healy       Aus        639!       22.8        122         639 v Eng at Antigua 2018

11           (-3)         Mithali Raj           Ind         623         37.81     101         813 v Win at Ahmedabad 2011

12           (+3)        D. van Niekerk  SA           622!       29.8        95           622 v SL at Centurion 2019

13           (-1)         Natalie Sciver     Eng         610         23.72     110         622 v Ind at Antigua 2018

14           (-1)         Elyse Villani         Aus        598         28.52     118         664 v Ire at Dublin 2015

15=         (+3)        Bismah Maroof Pak         571         25.19     89           647 v Ban at Karachi 2015

                (-1)         Javeria Khan       Pak         571         21.41     92           576 v NZ at Guyana 2018

17           (+6)        A.Satterthwaite                NZ          540         21.19     95           556 v Win at Bridgetown 2013

18           (+2)        Sarah Taylor       Eng         537         29           111         781 v Aus at Chelmsford 2013

19=         (-4)         H. Matthews      Win        536         19.54     110         593 v SL at St Lucia 2018

                (+2)        Danielle Wyatt  Eng         536         18.18     124         537 v SA at Taunton 2018 

 

Bowlers (top 20)

Rank      (+/-)      Player                   Team     Pts          Avge      Eco         Highest Rating

1              ( - )         Megan Schutt    Aus        796         15.45     5.76        804 v Pak at Guyana 2018

2              ( - )         Poonam Yadav  Ind         707         14.41     5.73        735 v Ire at Guyana 2018

3              (+1)        S. Ecclestone      Eng         703!       19.91     6.6          703 v Aus at Antigua 2018

4              (+1)        Ellyse Perry         Aus        700         19.19     5.9          752 v NZ at Nelson 2010

5              (+1)        Anya Shrubsole                Eng         695         13.7        5.53        754 v Win at Dharamsala 2016

6              (-3)         Leigh Kasperek NZ          694         12.93     6.17        715 v Ire at Dublin 2018

7              (+4)        Shabnim Ismail  SA           681         19.1        5.93        701 v Aus at Nagpur 2016

8=           ( - )         D. Kimmince       Aus        666!       18.96     6.53        666 v Eng at Antigua 2018

                (-1)         Amelia Kerr        NZ          666         22.52     5.96        679 v Ind at Wellington 2019

10           (+18)     Radha Yadav      Ind         659*!     18.57     6.62        659 v NZ at Hamilton 2019

11=         (+5)        Lea Tahuhu         NZ          643         20.86     5.9          664 v Pak at Sharjah 2017

                (-1)         Nashra Sandhu Pak         643         19.6        5.38        670 v Win at Karachi 2019

13           (-4)         Nida Dar               Pak         639         17.54     5.1          695 v SA at Doha 2014

14           (+5)        Deepti Sharma  Ind         638!       21.61     6.02        638 v NZ at Hamilton 2019

15=         (-3)         R. Ahmed            Ban        636         19.34     5.37        676 v Win at Guyana 2018

                (-3)         S. Molineux        Aus        636*!     20.06     5.84        636 v Eng at Antigua 2018

17           ( - )         S.Siriwardene    SL            635         19.94     5.53        687 v Eng at Sylhet 2014

18           (-4)         Salma Khatun    Ban        633         18.08     4.88        717 v Ire at Sylhet 2014

19           (+2)        Anam Amin        Pak         621         19.84     5.14        717 v Ban at Delhi 2016

20=         (+4)        Afy Fletcher       Win        620         20.57     5.82        639 v Ban at Guyana 2018

                (+6)        D. van Niekerk  SA           620         20.63     5.46        642 v Eng at Paarl 2016

 

All-rounders (top five)

Rank      (+/-)     Player   Team     Pts          Highest Rating

1              (+1)        Deandra Dottin Win        424!       424 v Pak at Karachi 2019

2              (-1)         Stafanie Taylor  Win        387         519 v SL at Bridgetown 2012

3              (+2)        D. van Niekerk  SA           385         388 v SL at Johannesburg 2019

4              (+1)        Sophie Devine   NZ          378!       378 v Ind at Hamilton 2019

5              (-2)         Ellyse Perry         Aus        369         382 v NZ at Nagpur 2016

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
May 25,2020

Karachi, May 25: Pakistan head coach and chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq believes Babar Azam is destined to be a world-class player and is very close to being in the same league as India skipper Virat Kohli and Australia's Steve Smith.

"I don't like comparisons but Babar is currently very close to being in the same class as Virat Kohli, Steve Smith or Joe Root," Misbah said in an interview to Youtube channel, Cricket Baaz.

"He believes in the work ethic that if you want to better Kohli you have to work harder than him at your skills, fitness and game awareness."

The 25-year-old, who was named captain of the Pakistan T20 team ahead of the Australia series in October last year, was recently handed the reins of ODI team as well.

"Making him the T20 captain was a tester. We wanted to see how he will respond to this challenge. All of us agree that he has done a very good job and his biggest plus is that being among the worlds top players he leads by example," Misbah said.

"If you are a performer like Babar then it becomes easier for you to motivate the rest of the team and get things done.

"Even when I was made captain in 2010 my performances were here and there and I was in and out. But captaincy changed my game and mindset and I became a more hard-working and motivated cricketer."

Misbah said Babar always challenges himself and would get better as a captain with experience.

"He is in a zone of his own. He just doesn't want to be in the team. He just doesn't want to play for money. He wants to be the top performer for Pakistan. He is always pitting himself against other top batsmen like Kohli or Smith," he said.

"He loves challenges in the nets and on the field. He has really matured as a player and in time he will get better as a captain with experience."

Babar was the leading run-scorer of the T20I series against Australia last year. He also scored 210 runs, which included a hundred, at 52.50 in the Test series against the same opponents.

In the two-Test home series against Sri Lanka, Babar ended the series with 262 runs with an average of exactly 262.

Misbah feels Babar had changed as a batsman when he got runs in the Tests in Australia.

"Before that he was getting runs in tests but not consistently. In Australia and in the following tests against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh he changed," he said.

Talking about his experience as a head coach, Misbah said: "Having captained, it has helped me a lot. As captain I had to manage everything and also having played under top coaches ... I have seen closely their work ethics and how they managed things.

"It is a learning process. Having remained captain it is a big advantage for coaching because you know the players and their mood swings. You know which player will respond in a given situation,which player is feeling pressure in a scenario.

Misbah said it is not easy juggling between different roles.

"Most important thing as a coach is mentally and psychologically how you handle a group of players," the former skipper said.

"Sometimes captain and coach is different as you have to take tough decisions. Being chief selector makes it it a bit difficult but I had experience of creating and managing teams, I have been building teams since 2003. Till now it is going well."

Misbah feels in Pakistan cricket there were different parameters for judging foreign and local coaches.

"I don't know why it is like this why do we have different eye for locals and foreigners. Maybe we feel they have something special. It looks like every decision by a foreign coach is right. In contrast we tend to be very critical of local coaches no matter what decision they take," he said.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
February 18,2020

New Delhi, Feb 18: Skipper Virat Kohli has become the first Indian to reach the 50M followers mark on social media platform Instagram. Kohli, who is breaking cricketing records with each passing match, has a great social media following.

The 31-year old has so far made 930 posts on the platform and his social media posts continue to enthrall fans worldwide. Overall, Instagram's official account has the most number of followers and it is followed by Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 200M followers.

In terms of Indians with most number of followers, Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra is on the second spot with 49.9 followers while Deepika Padukone is on the third place with 44.1 followers.

Last year, Kohli had become the most successful Indian Test captain, surpassing Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Currently, Kohli is in action against New Zealand and his side would take on the hosts in the two-match Test series, slated to commence from February 21.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
April 28,2020

New Delhi, Apr 28: West Indies flamboyant batsman Chris Gayle has lashed out at former teammate Ramnaresh Sarwan calling him 'worse than coronavirus'.

Gayle, the colossal figure in the shortest format of the game blamed Sarwan for his departure from Caribbean Premier League (CPL) franchise Jamaica Tallawahs.

The left-handed batsman joined St Lucia Zouks as their marquee player for the 2020 CPL season after Tallawahs chose not to retain him.

Gayle has played for Tallawahs and St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in the past. He has won the CPL title twice with the Tallawahs and played in the final with the Patriots in 2017.

"The owner of the franchise is a very nice man, I have no problem with him. I think he was actually persuaded to get rid of Chris Gayle," Gayle said in three parts on his YouTube channel.

"So someone has to be in his years telling him to get rid of Gayle. Sarwan, you are worse than the coronavirus right now. What transpired with the Tallahwahs, you had a big part to play.

Sarwan, you are a snake. You know, you are not the most loved person in the Caribbean. You are still stabbing people in the back," he added.

Gayle is the leading T20 run-scorer of all time as well as the man with the most centuries in the format. He is also the leading CPL run-scorer of all time, having amassed 2,344 runs in the tournament.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.