Taylor closer to No.1 batting ranking
Published:Monday | November 28, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Dottin breaks into top 10
DHAKA, Bangladesh (CMC):
Deandra Dottin, the exciting West Indies player, has broken into the top 10 of the Reliance ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings for batters for the first time, following a career-best 95 against Pakistan in the final of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier 2011 (WWCQ) at Mirpur on Saturday.
Dottin, a 20-year-old Barbadian, is now occupying seventh place in the table, which is topped by India's Mithali Raj. Dottin is a cousin of Ottis Gibson, the West Indies men's team head coach.
Her teammate, Stafanie Taylor, is fast closing in on Mithali's position.
The ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2011 and the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier Player of the Tournament, Taylor, also aged 20, is now just nine points away from displacing Mithali at the top of the table.
Top odi placement
Taylor's 325 runs and 10 wickets during the tournament, which West Indies won, also saw the outstanding Jamaican cement her place at the top of the Reliance ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings for all-rounders, with Australia's Lisa Sthalekar in second place.
In the Reliance ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings for bowlers, the table is still topped by India captain Jhulan Goswami and there has been no change in the top 10, albeit West Indies' Anisa Mohammed, sitting in fifth, has improved her ratings points after the 23-year-old off-spinner from Trinidad and Tobago took seven wickets for 14 runs in the win against Pakistan in Mirpur. Mohammed's figures were the third best of all time by a woman in an ODI.
Beneath the top 10, West Indies' Shanel Daley has broken into the top 20 for the first time. The 22-year-old Jamaican left-hander has risen five places to achieve her highest ranking to date of 18th.
In the Reliance ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings for all-rounders, that is topped by Taylor, Sri Lanka's Shashikala Siriwardena has dropped three places to now sit 12th, while her teammate, Suwini de Alwis, has gained two places to now sit 19th. De Alwis shares the position with Pakistan captain and all-rounder Sana Mir, which is both players' highest ranking to date.