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England opener Tammy Beaumont has rocketed five places to grab the top position among batters in the MRF Tyres ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings after an excellent display in the three-match series against New Zealand which her team won 2-1.
- Sciver and Amelia Kerr move up in all three lists after reigning World champions England beat New Zealand 2-1
The 29-year-old from Kent has overtaken the likes of West Indian Stafanie Taylor and New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite to top the list and now leads Australia captain Meg Lanning by 16 points.
This is for the first time in her 12-year ODI career that Beaumont is No. 1, her previous best being fourth position in July 2019. She has gained a whopping 49 points after topping the series with 231 runs, which comprised knocks of 71, 72 not out and 88 not out.
Natalie Sciver has moved into the top 10 after scoring 96 runs in the series while captain Heather Knight has progressed three slots to reach 13th position after aggregating 135 runs. Amy Jones is another England batter to move up the rankings, from 27th to joint-25th position.
Sciver, who bowls medium pace, has progressed 12 places to a career-best 22nd in the list of bowlers after finishing with five wickets in the series. Her effort with both bat and ball also resulted in her moving up three places to fifth position in the list of all-rounders led by Ellyse Perry of Australia.
Other England bowlers to gain in the new weekly system of updating, which will see women player rankings updated each Tuesday and those for men each Wednesday, include Katherine Brunt (up two places to ninth), Sophie Ecclestone (up one place to 14th) and Sarah Glenn (up three places to 44th).
For New Zealand, who host the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup one year from now, all-rounder Amelia Kerr’s match-winning effort of 72 not out and four for 42 in the final ODI has lifted her 10 places to 47th position among batters and up two places to 11th among bowlers. She is now 13th in the list of all-rounders.
Brooke Halliday, who smashed half-centuries both times she batted in her debut series, has entered the rankings in 59th position while medium-pacer Hannah Rowe has gained three slots to reach 43rd position among bowlers.
MRF Tyres ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings (as of 2 March 2021 after the New Zealand v England ODI series):
Batters (top 10)
| Rank | (+/-) | Player | Team | Pts | Avge | Highest Rating |
| 1 | (+5) | T Beaumont | Eng | 765! | 45.13 | 765 v NZ at Dunedin 2021 |
| 2 | (-1) | Meg Lanning | Aus | 749 | 55.08 | 878 v NZ at Bay Oval 2016 |
| 3 | (-1) | Stafanie Taylor | WI | 746 | 44.01 | 788 v India at St Kitts (WP) 2012 |
| 4 | (-1) | Alyssa Healy | Aus | 741! | 32.81 | 741 v NZ at Brisbane – AB 2020 |
| 5 | ( – ) | A Satterthwaite | NZ | 740 | 39.48 | 781 v Aus at Bay Oval 2017 |
| 6 | (-2) | S Mandhana | India | 732 | 43.08 | 799 v Eng at Mumbai 2019 |
| 7= | ( – ) | Ellyse Perry | Aus | 691 | 52.1 | 776 v India at Vadodara 2018 |
| ( – ) | L Wolvaardt | SA | 691 | 45.36 | 712 v NZ at Auckland 2020 | |
| 9 | ( – ) | Mithali Raj | India | 687 | 50.64 | 880 v Aus at Baroda Vadodar 2004 |
| 10 | (+1) | Natalie Sciver | Eng | 685 | 39.62 | 715 v India at Mumbai 2019 |
Other selected rankings
| Rank | (+/-) | Player | Team | Pts | Avge | Highest Rating |
| 13 | (+3) | Heather Knight | Eng | 666 | 38.61 | 691 v WI at Leicester 2019 |
| 25= | (+2) | Amy Jones | Eng | 536* | 28.25 | 562 v WI at Chelmsford 2019 |
| 47 | (+10) | Amelia Kerr | NZ | 336* | 30.1 | 361 v Ire at Dublin 2018 |
| 55 | (RE) | L Winfiel-Hill | Eng | 302 | 23.15 | 438 v Aus at Brisbane – AB 2017 |
| 59= | (NEW) | Brooke Halliday | NZ | 269* | 55 | 283 v Eng at Dunedin 2021 |
| 66= | (+15) | Hayley Jensen | NZ | 244* | 14.07 | 271 v Eng at Christchurch 2021 |
| 85= | (+10) | Hannah Rowe | NZ | 186* | 11.87 | 190 v India at Napier 2019 |
Bowlers (top 10)
| Rank | (+/-) | Player | Team | Pts | Avge | Eco | Highest Rating |
| 1 | ( – ) | J Jonassen | Aus | 804! | 20 | 3.97 | 804 v NZ at Brisbane – AB 2020 |
| 2 | ( – ) | Megan Schutt | Aus | 735 | 22.5 | 4.22 | 766 v WI at Antigua 2019 |
| 3 | ( – ) | M Kapp | SA | 711 | 23.5 | 3.69 | 738 v NZ at Hamilton 2020 |
| 4 | ( – ) | Shabnim Ismail | SA | 708 | 20.7 | 3.61 | 717 v NZ at Hamilton 2020 |
| 5 | ( – ) | J Goswami | India | 691 | 21.48 | 3.28 | 816 v Eng at Chennai 2007 |
| 6 | ( – ) | Poonam Yadav | India | 679! | 20.84 | 3.76 | 679 v WI at Antigua 2019 |
| 7 | ( – ) | Shikha Pandey | India | 675 | 21.06 | 3.94 | 696 v SA at Vadodara 2019 |
| 8 | ( – ) | Ellyse Perry | Aus | 666 | 24.28 | 4.33 | 738 v India at Mumbai 2012 |
| 9 | (+2) | Katherine Brunt | Eng | 655 | 23.13 | 3.49 | 811 v Aus at Mumbai 2013 |
| 10 | ( – ) | Deepti Sharma | India | 639 | 27.18 | 3.84 | 653 v Eng at Mumbai 2019 |
Other selected rankings
| Rank | (+/-) | Player | Team | Pts | Avge | Eco | Highest Rating |
| 11 | (+2) | Amelia Kerr | NZ | 619*! | 23.98 | 4.35 | 619 v Eng at Dunedin 2021 |
| 14 | (+1) | S Ecclestone | Eng | 588* | 23.23 | 3.8 | 590 v NZ at Dunedin 2021 |
| 22 | (+12) | N Sciver | Eng | 510*! | 26.75 | 4.36 | 510 v NZ at Dunedin 2021 |
| 43 | (+3) | Hannah Rowe | NZ | 313* | 31.05 | 3.97 | 377 v Ire at Dublin 2018 |
| 44 | (+3) | Sarah Glenn | Eng | 312* | 17.27 | 4.05 | 330 v NZ at Dunedin 2021 |
| 50 | (+6) | Hayley Jensen | NZ | 270*! | 38.83 | 4.77 | 270 v Eng at Dunedin 2021 |
| 53 | (+44) | Jess Kerr | NZ | 249*! | 18 | 4.28 | 249 v Eng at Dunedin 2021 |
| 65 | (+36) | Freya Davies | Eng | 211*! | 41 | 3.72 | 211 v NZ at Dunedin 2021 |
All-rounders (top five)
| Rank | (+/-) | Player | Team | Pts | Highest Rating |
| 1 | ( – ) | Ellyse Perry | Aus | 460 | 545 v WI at Antigua 2019 |
| 2 | ( – ) | Stafanie Taylor | WI | 410 | 599 v NZ at Kingston 2013 |
| 3 | ( – ) | M Kapp | SA | 396 | 412 v Pak at Durban 2021 |
| 4 | ( – ) | Deepti Sharma | India | 359 | 401 v NZ at Hamilton 2019 |
| 5 | (+3) | Natalie Sciver | Eng | 349 /*! | 349 v NZ at Dunedin 2021 |
For more information on player rankings, please click here.
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