Dubai, 27 October 2026: Deepti Sharma has moved up in all three ICC women’s ODI player rankings after India took an unbeatable 2-0 lead over Zimbabwe in their three-match ICC Women’s Championship series in Vadodara.
India won the two matches by nine wickets and 121 runs. Deepti took five wickets across the two games and scored 106 off 86 balls in the second, her first ODI century in nine years.
She climbed four places to 23rd in the batting rankings, one place to eighth among bowlers and two places to fourth among all-rounders.
Career-best for Pratika Rawal
Pratika Rawal made her third ODI hundred, 100 off 96 balls, in the first match and followed it with 61 off 67 in the second. She rose seven places to a career-best 21st with 598 rating points.
Harmanpreet Kaur hit 126 off 121 balls in the second ODI and moved up two places to eighth. Shafali Verma jumped 15 places to 73rd, and Kranti Gaud’s three for 43 in the first ODI lifted her two places to 25th among bowlers and three places to 33rd among all-rounders.
Wolvaardt replaces Mandhana at No. 1
India captain Smriti Mandhana scored 32 and 0 in the first two games and slipped to second in the batting list. South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt goes back to No. 1 for the first time since November 2025. It is her ninth separate spell at the top; she first reached No. 1 in March 2022.
Zimbabwe’s Modester Mupachikwa rose five places to a career-best 39th with 508 rating points. Chipo Mugeri-Tiripana moved up four places to 47th and Beloved Biza 16 places to a career-best 56th with 431 points.
T20I gains for Verma and Nandani Sharma
India had earlier swept the T20I series against Zimbabwe. In the T20I batting rankings, Verma moved up one place to third, with Mandhana fourth on 753 rating points, three behind her.
Nandani Sharma’s three for 18 in the third T20I took her up 13 places to 32nd among bowlers. Gaud rose five places to 38th after taking one for 19. Both had already climbed the T20I bowling list after the first two matches.
Elsewhere, Australia won their home T20I series against New Zealand in North Sydney. They took the first match by two wickets and the second by 40 runs before the third was washed out. Ash Gardner’s 84 off 45 balls in the second match lifted her nine places to 19th among batters. Georgia Wareham (three for 18) moved up four places to joint seventh among bowlers and Kim Garth returned to the top 10 at joint 10th. New Zealand’s Bree Illing and Nensi Patel each rose six places, to 17th and 29th.
Read more on Deepti Sharma’s century in Vadodara.