Dubai [UAE], January 21 (ANI): Following her high efficiency within the ongoing Girls’s Ashes, Australia’s Ash Gardner secured the highest spot within the Worldwide Cricket Council’s (ICC) newest Girls’s All-Rounder Rankings.
Gardner’s 4 wickets and 146 runs have helped her declare the highest spot on the All-Rounder’s mantle as she overtook South Africa veteran Marizanne Kapp, a launch from ICC acknowledged.
Gardner was productive with each bat and ball, because the Aussies claimed all three One-Dayers towards England down below. Her standout efficiency within the ODIs was a maiden worldwide century at Hobart’s Bellerive Oval within the third ODI.
The Aussie is now as much as a career-high 469 ranking factors within the All-Rounder ODI Rankings, 25 factors forward of the next-best Kapp.
She has additionally set a brand new career-best of 648 ranking factors as a batter, having climbed 5 spots to interrupt into the highest 10 of the checklist.
Gardner scored her first ODI ton towards England, compiling a run-a-ball 102 in Hobart. That efficiency adopted one other Participant of the Match effort within the first One-Dayer at North Sydney Oval, the place she took 19-3 off 6.1 overs earlier than hitting 42 off 44 balls to steer Australia residence and assist the hosts get off to a powerful Ashes begin.
West Indies star Hayley Matthews is again within the high 5 batters on this planet, leaping up 4 spots following her latest ton. Matthews smashed 104 off 93 balls in her first worldwide look of the calendar 12 months, as West Indies beat Bangladesh by 9 wickets in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt (773 ranking factors) is on the high of the Girls’s ODI Rankings, whereas Smriti Mandhana has closed in at second with 738 factors to her title after a stellar collection towards Eire at residence.
Within the Girls’s Bowling Rankings, some actions are seen with the continued Ashes collection.
Australian pair Kim Garth (up 4 spots to sixth) and Alana King (up 5 spots to seventh) are the opposite massive movers inside the highest 10, making it a complete of 4 Aussies within the high 10. (ANI)