Delhi: Smriti Mandhana, opener of the Indian women’s cricket team, has once again shown amazing. She has finished first in the rankings of ICC Women’s ODI batsmen. He has achieved this point again after about six years. Earlier she was number 1 in early 2019. This time he left behind South Africa’s captain Laura Volvard, whose 19 rating points were reduced.

Mandhana appeared in great form

Smriti Mandhana’s performance in the recent tri -series played in Sri Lanka was excellent. He scored a total of 264 runs in 5 matches. His average was 52.80 and the strike rate was 90.41. In the final match, Mandhana scored a brilliant century against Sri Lanka and South Africa, which was the 11th century of his ODI career. Thanks to this performance, he surpassed the Volvard in the ranking, which could only score only 27 and 28 runs against the West Indies in recent matches.

Mandhana’s performance in 2024

In the year 2024, Mandhana performed the best of her ODI career. He scored a total of 747 runs in 13 innings, which has the highest number of runs in any year. Due to this, the ICC also gave her the title of “Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year”.

Mandhana on tops also in records

Smriti Mandhana has now joined only four women players whose names are 10 or more ODI centuries. So far, she has scored 4473 runs and she is at number 10 in the list of batsmen scoring the most runs of women’s cricket.

Other Indian batsmen rankings

The other two batsmen of the Indian team – Jemima Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur – are also making it to the top 30. Jemima is 15th and Harmanpreet is ranked 16th.