Dubai: India women's cricket team has overtaken New Zealand to grab third position in the T20 rankings and remained static at second spot in the ODIs according to the ICC latest rankings released on Friday.
While Australia and England gave kept their No 1 and 2 spots intact with 291 and 280 Points.
India (270) who made the final of this year's ICC Women's T20 World Cup, have overtaken New Zealand by one point (269), the ICC statement said.
The biggest improvement in rankings has been registered by Brazil, who are up 11 places to 27th, after a gain of 15 rating points, while the biggest ranking fall has been for Malaysia, who are down from 31st to 38th.
Samoa (up two places to 16th), Indonesia (up two places to 20th) and the United States of America (up four places to 31st) are among other teams to have made notable progress.
Three teams have lost their place on the rankings table. Denmark and Belgium have not played any matches since October 2017 while Qatar have played fewer than the required six during the period.
India (121) and England (119) have lost four points each while clinging on to their second and third positions, respectively, while South Africa (107) enjoy a 13-point lead over New Zealand (94), with the West Indies (85), Pakistan (77), Bangladesh (61) and Sri Lanka (47) following in that order in ODI rankings.
Six-time ICC Women's Cricket World Cup champions and winners of both editions of the ICC Women's Championship, Australia's stellar display during the rating period saw them win 20 of 21 ODIs, increasing their tally by eight points to 160.
Their massive lead of 39 points over second-placed India is the largest by any team (men or women) in any form of the game.
It comes on the back of 3-0 series wins over India, Pakistan, New Zealand, England, West Indies, Sri Lanka and an earlier 2-1 win over England at the start of the ICC Women's Championship, only a few months after England had won the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup in 2017.
The latest update, expunges results from the 2016-17 season, weights the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons at 50 percent and the 2019-20 matches at 100 percent.(UNI)
