Liezel Lee tops ICC ODI rankings, Punam Raut is up 8 places

South Africa opener Liezel Lee has shot seven places to become the top ranked batsman in the ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings released on Tuesday. On the back of a stunning run in the ongoing series against India, Lee displaced Tammy Beaumont from the top spot. India’s opener Punam Raut has also moved up to the eighth position. Raut is ranked 13th in the list of Indian batsmen after Mandhana (seventh) Mithali (ninth) and Harmanpreet Kaur (15th). Raut is in excellent form and has scored an unbeaten 62, 77 and 104 not out runs in his last three ODIs.

Harmanpreet is up two places among the batsmen and has gained three places to reach 49th place in bowling.

Left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gaikwad is one to achieve remarkable feat, finishing 18th among bowlers with five wickets in three matches and a five-place lead among batsmen at 71st.

Sushma Varma (81st position among batsmen) and Mansi Joshi (5th from 64th position among bowlers) have also received the latest weekly update.

Coming back to Lee, the Proteas batsman had scored four, 132, and 69 in three matches during the previous week, after scoring an unbeaten 83 with the opener in the series from the 11th to the eighth week during the previous week. Was.

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This is the second time Lee has topped the ODI batting chart, having previously ranked number one in June 2018 when he scored 117 against England at Howe. Her reign lasted only three days when she overtook Elise Perry of Australia. Lee is the only South African to top the women’s ODI batting rankings.

Laura Goodall, whose career-best 59 runs helped her win a decisive win in Lucknow, moved up 27 places to 48th, while off-spinner Nondumiso Shangse rose 18 places to 68th among bowlers. Arrived. Ayabonga Khaka has entered ninth place among the bowlers and has gained two slots to finish 100th among the batsmen.