ICC Women's ODI Ranking: Smriti Mandhana becomes No 1, surpasses Mithali, Ellyse Perry

Smriti Mandhan becomes World No.1 ODI batswoman moving up three places on Saturday along with steady Virat Kohli at the top in the ICC ODI rankings

Following her stunning outing with the bat in the New Zealand tour, India’s opening batswoman Smriti Mandhana notched up the No.1 spot in the latest ODI women's batters rankings on Saturday. She moved up three spots, surpassing Australians Ellyse Perry and Meg Lanning at second and third spots respectively.

New Zealand captain Amy Satterthwaite is at the fourth slot, who made her way into the top after jumping 10 places. On the other hand, Indian captain Mithali Raj, who moved down a spot, completes the top five.

Smriti cracked her fourth ODI century and an unbeaten 90 in India's 2-1 win in the three-match rubber against New Zealand. In the 15 ODIs Smriti has played since the beginning of 2018, she has scored two centuries and eight half-centuries.

According to an International Cricket Council (ICC) statement, it was fine recognition for Smriti, who has been in an exemplary form in the one-day format.

@mandhana_smriti becomes World No.1 ODI batswoman moving up three places on Saturday along with steady @imVkohli at the top in the ICC ODI rankings. So Team India has the World No.1 batter in men's and women's cricket now! @Wahcricketlive

— G. S. Vivek (@GSV1980) February 2, 2019

Smriti's opening partner Jemimah Rodrigues was another Indian to rise in the rankings. She has played just seven ODIs since making her debut in March 2018, but a half-century in the first ODI at Napier helped the 18-year-old to rise 64 places to the 61st spot in the rankings.

Lizelle Lee (down two places to No.7), Tammy Beaumont (down two places to No.8), Stafanie Taylor and Chamari Athapaththu (both falling by a place each) complete the top 10.

Among the bowlers, there was less activity in the rankings. But there was good news for India's spin trio—Deepti Sharma, Poonam Yadav and Ekta Bisht.

Both Poonam and Deepti jumped five places each and now figure at No.8 and No.9, respectively. Poonam took six wickets in the series to Deepti's four, while Ekta jumped nine places to No.13 after claiming five wickets in the series.

Veteran fast bowler Jhulan Goswami, whose 3/23 in the second ODI set up the series win, rose one place to No.4 and is the highest-ranked Indian in the top five, with Pakistan's Sana Mir, Australia's Megan Schutt and South Africa's Marizanne Kapp figuring above her.

There was largely no change among the all-rounders. Australia's Ellyse Perry still tops the all-rounders' charts. Apart from Sophie Devine, who moved up one place to No.9, and pushed down Deandra Dottin to No.10, there was no change in the top 10.