{"id":3220,"date":"2022-01-25T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T10:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=185550"},"modified":"2022-01-25T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T10:35:30","slug":"shafali-verma-reclaims-her-top-spot-in-icc-womens-t20-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/shafali-verma-reclaims-her-top-spot-in-icc-womens-t20-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafali Verma reclaims her top spot in ICC Women\u2019s T20 rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian cricketer, Shafali Verma has reclaimed her No.1 position on the ICC Women\u2019s T20 rankings for batters on Tuesday. While Shafali\u2019s opening partner Smriti Mandhana spot dropped to the fourth position.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian duo of Beth Mooney and Meg Lanning has held the second and third spot of the rankings respectively. The sixth position has also been occupied by another Australian, Alyssa Healy. The fifth and seventh spots have been occupied by two New Zealand players, Sophie Divine and Suzie Bates respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Chamari Athapaththu has gained six positions to break the top 10 after her incredible performance in Commonwealth game qualifiers, where she accumulated 221 runs with an outstanding average rate of 55.25 and strike rate of 185.71. She has currently acquired the eighth position in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>English Cricketer, Danni Wyatt has also risen three places to the thirteenth position after recently having an amazing score of 70 against Australia in the first T20 of Women\u2019s Ashes. Whereas, Australia\u2019s Tahlia McGrath acquires 29 places in the rankings to reach up to the 28th position.<\/p>\n<p>In the bowler\u2019s rankings, the top three remained constant with England\u2019s Sophie Ecclestone and Sarah Glenn holding the first and second places respectively, while the third spot was held by South Africa\u2019s Shabnim Ismail.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Deepti Sharma has acquired one position up to overcome Australia\u2019s Megan Schutt from fourth place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd39 Shafali Verma back on \ud83d\udd1d <br \/>\ud83d\udd39 Big gains for Chamari Athapaththu \ud83d\ude4c <\/p>\n<p>Here are the movements in this week's <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MRFWorldwide?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MRFWorldwide<\/a> ICC Women's Player Rankings \ud83d\udcc8 <\/p>\n<p>Details \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vgKLeRzB8D\">https:\/\/t.co\/vgKLeRzB8D<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eh6A9fi7bj\">pic.twitter.com\/Eh6A9fi7bj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1485890895501316100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Shafali\u2019s opening partner Smriti Mandhana spot dropped to the fourth position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":26297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1534],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-shafali-verma"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}