ICC Women’s T20 Rankings: Harmanpreet Kaur moves up two places, Deepti loses top spot

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Indian women’s cricket squad  skipper  Harmanpreet Kaur.

Indian women’s cricket squad skipper Harmanpreet Kaur. | Photo Credit: The Hindu

India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) moved up 2 spots to scope 13th presumption successful the latest ICC Women's T20I ranking for batters, pursuing her match-winning sound successful the 5th and last crippled against Sri Lanka successful Thiruvananthapuram.

India won the crippled by 15 runs, making a cleanable expanse for the five-match bid which concluded connected December 30.

Harmanpreet smashed 68 disconnected 43 deliveries to container the Player of the Match grant and moved towards the apical 10.

Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma continued to clasp connected to their 3rd and sixth spots respectively arsenic Australia's Beth Mooney extended her enactment astatine the top.

Jemimah Rodrigues, however, slipped retired of the apical 10, and is placed 12th.

Deepti Sharma mislaid the apical spot successful the bowling rankings, arsenic her instrumentality of 1 for 28 successful the 5th T20I was not capable to halt Australia's Annabel Sutherland's ascent to the top.

Deepti has 1 standing constituent little than Sutherland's 736 arsenic the Australian fast-bowling all-rounder regained the No 1 position, which she archetypal attained successful August 2025 erstwhile Pakistan spinner Sadia Iqbal had likewise conceded the apical spot to her.

The bowling rankings besides saw Indian left-arm spinner Shree Charani beforehand 5 places to 47th.

For Sri Lanka, Kavisha Dilhari (up 1 spot to 32nd) and Chamari Athapaththu (up 3 places to 48th) gained successful the bowling rankings.

Published - January 06, 2026 04:25 p.m. IST

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