ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings: Athapaththu, Glenn, and Bell Make Notable Progress

Following a week of exceptional performances, Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu and England’s Sarah Glenn and Lauren Bell have made significant strides in the ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings.

Athapaththu, the Sri Lankan opener, delivered a match-winning performance of 102 against Scotland in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier final. This has propelled her two places up to the seventh position among batters, just shy of her career-best sixth position achieved in April this year.

Currently ranked number one in the ODI batting rankings, Athapaththu has also ascended to fifth among all-rounders in the T20I rankings.

England’s Glenn and Bell made their mark in the first of their three-match series against Pakistan in Birmingham. Glenn’s impressive haul of four for 12 and Bell’s figures of three for 22 have seen them rise to fourth and seventh positions respectively. Bell surpassed 700 rating points for the first time in her career.

England’s 53-run victory in Birmingham also brought about significant gains for other home team players. Captain Heather Knight advanced four places to 18^th position following her knock of 49, which led to a remarkable recovery from 11 for four. Amy Jones, Player of the Match, moved up three places to 26^th after scoring 37 off 27 balls in her 100^th T20I appearance.

In the latest weekly update, which also takes into account performances in the last T20I of the five-match bilateral series in Bangladesh that India won 5-0, India’s left-arm spinner Radha Yadav has moved up seven places to 23^rd position. Other players making progress include captain Harmanpreet Kaur (up three places to 13^th), Richa Ghosh (up two places to 23^rd), and Dayalan Hemlatha (up 298 places to 78^th).

Other notable advancements in the batting rankings include Papua New Guinea’s Tanya Ruma (up three places to joint-27^th), Zimbabwe’s Modester Mupachikwa (up two places to 41^st), and Sri Lanka’s Nilakshi de Silva (up two places to 48^th). In the bowling rankings, Sri Lanka’s Inoshi Fernando (up five places to 19^th), Bangladesh’s Marufa Akter (up two places to 27^th), and Sri Lanka’s Udeshika Prabhodhani (up five places to 30^th) have made progress.