India captain Harmanpreet Kaur left onlookers astounded with her breathtaking display with the bat in the second ODI against England Women as she swaggered her way to an unbeaten 143 runs in just 111 balls. The captain led from the front as India whitewashed England 3-0 and registered their first ODI series win on English soil in 23 years.
Riding on her stupendous show against England, Harmanpreet on September 27 (Tuesday) jumped four spots to reach the fifth spot in the ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings. She leads a bunch of Indian players who have made rapid gains in the rankings after the team's 3-0 sweep over England.
Opener Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma have also moved up in the latest update that considers performances in the last two matches of that series as well as the IWC series between the West Indies and New Zealand.
Mandhana, a formerly top-ranked batter who scored 40 and 50 in the two matches, has moved up one place to take the sixth position while Sharma's unbeaten 68 not out in the third match at Lord's has lifted her eight places to 24th position.
Pooja Vastrakar (up four places to 49th) and Harleen Deol (up 46 places to 81st) are other Indian players to move up the batters' list while new-ball bowler Renuka Singh has galloped 35 places to take 35th position after grabbing four wickets each in the two matches.
Fast bowler Jhulan Goswami, a formerly top-ranked bowler, retired in the fifth position.
England's Danny Wyatt, who scored 65 in the second match, has gained two slots to reach 21st position among batters while Amy Jones is up four places to 30th. Charlie Dean has progressed 24 places to get to 62nd among batters and one slot to 19th among bowlers.
West Indies captain Hayley Matthews has grabbed the No. 1 position for all-rounders in the ODI format for the first time in her career after aggregating 88 runs and grabbing five wickets in a 2-1 series win over New Zealand.
(With PTI inputs)
