Jhulan Goswami Moves To 2nd Position In ICC Women’s ODI Bowling Ranking

Mumbai: India fast bowler Jhulan Goswami’s has reached the second position among bowlers in the ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings, after her superb show in the final match against Australia.

The 38-year-old’s haul of three for 37 at MacKay, which helped stop Australia’s winning streak of 26 matches and won her the Player of the Match award.

Goswami has been top-ranked eight times in her career, her last ascension to the spot being in March 2019. As of now, she is 33 rating points adrift of Australia left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen.

There were also some other notable gains for India with opener Shafali Verma, who is top-ranked in the T20I rankings, gaining 23 slots to reach 51st position among batters, and Deepti Sharma moving up two slots to 19th.

Medium-pacer Meghna Singh has entered the bowlers’ rankings in 64th position and Yastika Bhatia has entered the batters’ rankings in 65th position. Captain Mithali Raj though has slipped to third with South Africa opener Lizelle Lee back at the top.

Among the Australians, opener Beth Mooney, Rachael Haynes, Ashleigh Gardner and Tahlia McGrath has reached the 8^th, 11^th, 27^{th, and} 47^th position respectively. Meanwhile, England’s wicketkeeper-batter Amy Jones has progressed four slots to the joint-21st position.

Left-arm spinner Sophie Molineux is up 10 places to 39th among bowlers with Darcie Brown and Annabel Sutherland also pushing up that list in the latest update that includes performances in the last three matches of the England-New Zealand series.

There have been a whole lot of England bowlers to gain after helping complete a 4-1 series win Sophie Ecclestone is up to one place to fifth, Anya Shrubsole is up to four places to ninth, Kate Cross is up to five places to 10th and Natalie Sciver is up to seven places to 11th.

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