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After India’s capitulation in Pune, Virat Kohli said that he had not asked for such a pitch but saw nothing wrong with the track

Sidharth Monga in Pune25-Feb-2017Lowest match total for two all-out innings in India. Quickest end to two all-out innings in India. India’s fourth-lowest match total. The third-quickest they have taken to be bowled out. If India asked for this pitch, they have been hoisted by their own petard. India’s captain Virat Kohli, though, insisted that he had not asked for this pitch, saw nothing wrong with the pitch, and pulled himself and his fellow batsmen up for capitulating for a total of 212 runs in 74 overs.Asked if he or his team had asked for this pitch at a ground with a reputation for flat hard surfaces, Kohli said: “I don’t know. I didn’t speak to anyone.”About the pitch itself Kohli said: “I don’t think it was any different from the turners that we played on in the past. We just didn’t play good cricket. You can ask me any sort of question or any perception about the loss. We know exactly what happened, the mistakes that we made. External perceptions don’t matter to us, they have never mattered to us.”We played good cricket, that’s why we won. We played bad cricket, and that’s why we lost. That’s how simply we look at this defeat. We just want to take the learnings forward, improve and come back stronger in the next game. I can assure you that we are going to come back with more intent for sure, and put Australia under pressure straight from ball one.”Once the pitch was laid out, India had the option of strengthening the batting like they did on a similar pitch in Nagpur against South Africa. Kohli defended the selection. “We wanted to pick up 20 wickets, we did manage to do that,” Kohli said. “I mean, not in time. I would say we did make breakthroughs but we could’ve done it quicker and if you don’t grab your chances in the second innings, if you drop five chances of one batsman, then you certainly don’t deserve to win. If you get bowled out within 11 runs and lose seven wickets, you don’t deserve to win a Test match.”You can speak about combinations… I’m sure you wouldn’t have asked this question had we won the game. The question changes drastically when you win or lose. A lot of things are result-oriented, but not with our team. We focus on what we can do right, and what we need to do right on field, and we don’t drift away from that. Our mindset doesn’t change with the results.”Kohli said Indian saw the defeat as “no big deal”. “It’s fine,” Kohli said of the mood in the dressing room. “It’s just another international game. It’s no big deal. It’s how you should stay calm and composed when you win, how you shouldn’t get overexcited. The same way you react when you lose, something that you take on the chin. We take failures and losses as an opportunity to learn.”The defeat ended India’s 19-Test unbeaten streak, and Kohli looked back to their previous defeat for inspiration. “The last time we had a performance like this [in Galle, against Sri Lanka], we had the most outstanding run after that,” Kohli said. “I would say that we needed something like this for us to get a reality check and understand what are the things we need to work on and keep persisting with it. Not take anything for granted at any stage, especially at the Test-match level.”Kohli blamed his batsmen for not applying themselves, but defended his bowlers, who were outdone by Australia who had little experience of bowling in such conditions. “The way we batted in the first innings, I think we put ourselves under a lot of pressure to be honest,” Kohli said. “Conceding a 160-run lead on that kind of wicket is criminal actually. If we were close enough to their first-innings total, the bowlers’ mindset is different in the second innings. The moment you give away 50-60 runs, the game is drifting away already.”It’s very difficult to pull things back from there, even a single run hurts from thereon. And I would say our batsmen put us in that position where it was very difficult for us to come back into the game. Am not blaming the bowlers at all, they tried their level best, someone like Umesh [Yadav] bowling well in the first innings was great to see on a slowish wicket. They bowled in good areas, they put Australia under pressure, they were going well in the first innings and we pulled things back nicely. A few things we can take away from this game but [only] from bowling aspect. Our batting wasn’t up to standard, and that’s certainly how we shouldn’t bat from here onwards.’When asked what the Australia spinners did right in comparison to India’s, Kohli found no flaw with his unit. “I think our spinners bowled really well as well,” he said. “I wouldn’t say what they did better. As I said, if you don’t apply yourself, any bowling attack can look dangerous. It’s as simple as that. Even a part-timer can get four wickets if you don’t apply yourself. And I certainly would like to think that that was the case with our batting line-up in this game. It rarely happens that four-five batsmen make errors in judgement in both the innings, especially with the way we batted in the last few months. I would say this was our worst batting performance and we need to accept that.”One of the errors was Kohli’s, when he shouldered arms to become one of Steve O’Keefe’s 12 wickets in the match. This image was the most symbolic of all. Ravindra Jadeja had done this to Steven Smith in Delhi in 2012-13, and to Hashim Amla in Mohali in 2015-16. Now Kohli watched in horror as his off stump was laid flat. Kohli was forthcoming about his mistake.”It was a judgement error from my side,” he said. “I left the ball too early. I should have waited for the ball a little more. You can’t say which ball is going to turn or which isn’t. You’ve got to play the line, and I certainly didn’t do that. It was my fault.”

Hamilton Masakadza, whose unbeaten 93 from 58, set up Zimbabwe’s series-leveling win, was happy with the way he built his innings and is also proud of the way his team has bounced back after losing the T20I series to Afghanistan earlier this month

Mohammad Isam22-Jan-2016Hamilton Masakadza fired Zimbabwe off to a rapid start, held the middle order together and remained unbeaten till the last over of the innings. A few hours later he was named Man of the Match and Man of the Series having played a big part in his team coming from behind to level the T20 series against Bangladesh 2-2.Masakadza’s unbeaten 93 in Khulna on Friday sealed a hat-trick – the top three scores for Zimbabwe in T20s belong to him. He also holds the record for most runs in a bilateral T20I series, and in the second game became the first from his country to complete 3,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket. Zimbabwe will hope his form continues with the World T20 coming up in just over a month.Masakadza needed only 58 balls to almost score a T20 century thanks to five sixes and eight fours, most of which came on the leg side. But there was beauty in his brutality as well.He used singles to feed an 80-run partnership with Richmond Mutumbami, but let the big-hitting Malcolm Waller take most of the strike during their 61-run third-wicket stand. Then when he saw Elton Chigumbura miss a few, Masakadza took the lead in their unbroken 31-run fifth-wicket stand to power Zimbabwe to 180 for 4.”I thought [my innings] went almost exactly like I wanted it to go,” Masakadza said. “We started off playing quite a few shots in the Powerplay. Then, just tried to support the guys in the middle and play some more big shots in the death overs.”Masakadza’s regret was more about failing to get a bigger total for Zimbabwe than missing out on a hundred. “I think I didn’t get as many as I would have liked to in the end overs. I didn’t clear the ropes as much as I wanted to. Other than that it set up the team quite brilliantly. I was more disappointed at not getting 190-odd. We were in a good position to get to the score.”In the first two T20s, Zimbabwe made good starts with the bat but their middle order gave it away at crucial stages. That shortcoming was addressed in the third T20 with Waller playing finisher. Zimbabwe had laid the foundation today as well and a set batsman was able to make sure they got to a formidable total.Masakadza said all the team needed to win was the middle order to take advantage of a fast start, and their self-belief had shot up after winning the third T20.”We were always confident, especially the way we played in the first game. We lost after posting 160 on the board but I thought the way the batsmen had gone, especially to start with, we just needed the middle order to click. We knew we could get over the line.”The momentum definitely helped after the third game. Obviously the guys got more confident with what they were doing. They had a little bit more belief after getting the first victory.”Masakadza said the 2-2 result would go a long way in helping the side overcome their 2-0 loss to Afghanistan earlier this month.”I thought the guys showed a lot of character to come back from 2-0 down. It is a big positive for us. We needed to put what happened against Afghanistan behind us. I think the guys showed good will power to make this comeback. It was very good for the team.”

Officials at Cricket South Africa (CSA) do not believe their recent problems with corporate governance had any effect on them being left out of the ICC’s major tournament plans for the next decade

Firdose Moonda09-Jul-2013Officials at Cricket South Africa (CSA) do not believe the board’s recent problems with corporate governance had any bearing on them being left out of the ICC’s major tournament plans for the next decade. The problems began because of unauthorised bonuses paid to CSA staff after the 2009 IPL and Champions Trophy, which were held in South Africa, and resulted in the dismissal of chief executive Gerald Majola, for whom a permanent replacement has yet to be found.CSA’s corporate governance was exposed as severely lacking in the aftermath of the affair and the board had to be restructured after ministerial intervention. While that process is now complete, CSA is yet to appoint a new boss and ESPNcricinfo has learned the revolving door of interim suits had led to a loss of stature for CSA at higher levels.The current administration, however, denied that CSA’s state of flux had any effect on the ICC’s scheduling. “CSA enjoys a high standing with the ICC as our administration and organisation of major events has always been out of the top drawer,” Naasei Appiah, the acting chief executive, told ESPNcricinfo.South Africa is not scheduled to host a major tournament for the next decade after profiting handsomely in the past ten years. The country staged the 2003 World Cup, the inaugural World T20 in 2007 and the 2009 Champions Trophy, but have not been penciled in for any such events until at least 2023.The next two 50-over World Cups, after 2015, will be in England and India, with the two countries also due to host the Test championship in 2017 and 2021. The World T20s after Bangladesh next year will be held in India in 2016 and Australia in 2020, with South Africa hosting an Under-19 World Cup in 2020.Instead of considering itself snubbed, CSA is taking it in its stride. “We would obviously like to host more events but we have to bear in mind that we hosted three events in the previous decade, not to mention the IPL and the Champions League twice,” Appiah said. “Australia have only hosted the Women’s World Cup and the U-19 World Cup since they last hosted the World Cup in 1992, so they went through two decades without the main events. We are confident we will get our turn again in the following decade.”While CSA accepted the luck of the draw as the main reason for its exclusion, it also identified a few other reasons. Appiah mentioned the commercial interests in relation to the Test Championship, which some believed South Africa should have hosted given their sporting surfaces, turned the ICC to more established markets.”It is disappointing not to host the Test Championship but it is understandable that the ICC opted for countries that are likely to draw big crowds,” he said. “It will also make it easier to get a major sponsor.”Despite being left out of the elite club of hosts, South Africa will not lose out financially. Appiah confirmed the profit-sharing agreement with the ICC would leave CSA well-heeled as long as the ICC continued to make money. “Our share of ICC’s net profit from events is 7.5%. Thus if the ICC secures its events in countries where there are significant commercial values, CSA stands to benefit as the distributions increases.”

A five-wicket haul by Ryan McLaren helped South Africa A take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series after an innings win over Sri Lanka A in the first unofficial Test in Durban

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A five-wicket haul by fast bowler Ryan McLaren helped South Africa A take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series with an innings win over Sri Lanka A on the third day in Durban. McLaren removed three top-order batsmen in his first five overs to squash any chances of a second-innings revival by the visiting batsmen.South Africa A declared their first innings on their overnight score of 425, leading by 255 runs, and gave Sri Lanka A a stiff task to avoid an innings defeat. They fell short by eight runs.McLaren, who opened the bowling instead of Wayne Parnell, struck twice off consecutive balls in the fourth over of the day to remove Dimuth Karunaratne and Chamara Silva. In his fifth over, Kaushal Silva nicked a full delivery to the wicketkeeper to leave Sri Lanka A in further trouble. An 83-run stand between Dilruwan Perera and Roshen Silva for the fourth wicket resisted the South African charge for 22 overs. The fall of Perera, however, signalled the end of Sri Lanka A’s challenge. South Africa A picked up regular wickets thereafter to win the match early in the third session with a day to spare.The victory was set up by big hundreds from Dean Elgar and Faf du Plessis, who set up the match-winning total with a 292-run stand on the second day. The second unofficial Test will be played in Durban from July 6.

Uncertainty continues to surround Rashid Latif’s position as Afghanistan coach, after an Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) official said his contract would not be renewed

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Jun-2011Uncertainty continues to surround Rashid Latif’s position as Afghanistan coach, after an Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) official said his contract would not be renewed. Latif, however, says he has not been contacted yet about any decision.Following the 3-0 series defeat to Pakistan ‘A’ last month Latif had said he was disappointed with the attitude and effort put in by some of the players, who he believed did not perform to the best of their abilities because they wanted to see former coach Kabir Khan back in the post.Now, according to a report in the Pakistan newspaper the ACB has decided against renewing Latif’s contract. “We believe he has failed to fulfill our expectations and that has prompted us to look at other options,” ACB chief executive Naseemullah Danish told the newspaper. “We all respect Latif, but the recent drubbing at the hands of Pakistan A forced us to ponder over our future. We need someone who is mentally tough and does not make lame excuses for defeats.”I can tell you that we have received the CVs from England and one of them is a big name with a ten years coaching experience in county cricket, and he is likely to be appointed as our batting coach.”Latif told ESPNcricinfo, however, that his contract was currently valid until the end of next month. “I have not been contacted about this. My contract is valid as far as I know till July 20th,” he said.Danish said the board is looking to reappoint Khan as bowling coach. “Kabir will help us in two ways, firstly he is very close to our players and secondly he will help our players understand what the foreign coach will instruct them, since most of our players cannot understand and communicate in English.”The former Pakistan fast bowler Kabir has been coaching United Arab Emirates since October last year after his stint as Afghanistan coach ended abruptly in August 2010; alleged interference from ACB officials forced him to leave the team then.The situation, however, may not be as clear-cut as it appears. It is believed that there has been contact between ACB chairman Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal and Latif in a bid to clear the fog around what has gone wrong between team members and Latif during the Pakistan ‘A’ series. That intervention, observers believe, may yet have a role to play in the conclusion of this matter.

Bangladesh A worked themselves into a position of comfort thanks to fighting knocks from Nazimuddin and Faisal Hossain who capitalised on the continued excellence from Syed Rasel and Suhrawadi Shuvo that earned them both five-wicket hauls

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ScorecardBangladesh A worked themselves into a position of comfort thanks to fighting knocks from Nazimuddin and Faisal Hossain who capitalised on five-wicket hauls from Syed Rasel and Suhrawadi Shuvo. At stumps, Faisal held fort for the hosts, who were 64 adrift of first-innings honours, with an unbeaten 64 inclusive of six fours and four sixes, having realised 75 for the unbroken sixth-wicket with Saghir Hossain.Brendan Nash, who began the day on 64, held the key for West Indies A to aim for a 300-plus score. Bangladesh focused on prising wickets at the other end, and as on day one, it was down to Rasel and Shuvo to make the break-throughs. 26 runs had been added when Shuvo got Gavin Tonge to play back to him for a well-deserved five-for. Rasel responded promptly from the other end, packing off numbers 10 and 11, as Nash was left stranded one short of three-figures.Nelon Pascal accounted for Shahriar Nafees early to thwart the hosts’ reply before Mehrab Hossain and Nazimuddin steadied things. Mehrab had worked his way to 29 with five fours when Shane Shillingford got the better of him. Odean Brown then got into the thick of things, accounting for three wickets – two as a bowler, and one as a fielder – in the space of 13 overs. Raqibul Hasan offered a catch to Shillingford and Farhad Hossain was struck in front of the stumps to leave the hosts stuttering at 107 for 4. The big fish succumbed soon after, as Brown ran Nazimuddin out for a fine 72 off 123 balls, inclusive of 12 fours. The hosts’ hopes of securing a first-innings advantage looked bleak at that stage, but by stumps Faisal and Saghir had brought their side right back into the contest, leaving them with a good chance of dictating terms on Day 3.

Raghvi Bist helped India A recover from a tricky start to post a decent total in Mackay

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Aug-2024Katie Mack’s superbly-constructed 129 led Australia A to a four-wicket victory over India A which was more comprehensive that the final scoreline suggested in the first one-day match in Mackay.Mack’s hundred controlled the chase as she added 122 in 20 overs for the third wicket with captain Tahlia McGrath who continued the form she showed in the last two T20s with a brisk half-century.Mack took 106 balls to bring up her century and the innings ensured the home side was never under significant pressure. She added 50 for the first wicket with Maddy Darke and 65 for the second with Charli Knott before the latter was run out by a direct hit. Mack was yorked by Meghna Singh with five runs needed.”It swung a little bit early then died down,” Mack said. “Think the challenge was finding the boundaries on a bit of a slower wicket with not much pace on the ball so it was a bit of a slog with a lot of running, but I was super focused to make sure I made the most of the start. Got a couple of starts in the T20s so just wanted to make sure I capitalised today.”McGrath was given a life on 10 when Sayali Satghare dropped a return catch. She later appeared unhappy to be given out sweeping although by then the result was assured despite a flurry of late wickets which included two falling with the scores level.India A had earlier been put into bat and were soon under pressure as Nicola Hancock struck with the new ball, nipping one back through Shweta Sehrawat in the first over then having Priya Punia edging to slip.From 56 for 3 the innings was rebuilt by consecutive stands of 55, 52 and 68 all involving Raghvi Bist. Legspinner Grace Parsons again impressed, producing a sharp leg-break to remove Tejal Hasabnis for 53.Maitlan Brown closed out the innings well, ending Bist’s hopes of a century and then claiming three wickets in the final over.There are two more one-day games in Mackay on Friday and Sunday before a four-day match on the Gold Coast next week. Australia A won the T20 series 3-0.

While the tournament is set to be played between October 5 and November 19, the BCCI is yet to finalise the schedule

Nagraj Gollapudi27-May-2023The schedule for the 2023 World Cup will be unveiled during the World Test Championship final at The Oval, BCCI secretary Jay Shah has said. The board has prepared a list of more than a dozen venues across India, and the final shortlist will be shared with the ICC soon.Shah made these comments during a media briefing after the BCCI’s special general meeting in Ahmedabad which will host the IPL final on Sunday. While the ten-team World Cup is set to be played between October 5 and November 19, the BCCI is yet to finalise the schedule, with just about four months left for the start of the tournament.Related

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A total of 48 matches, including the three knockout games, are set to be played across the 46-day period. Ahmedabad aside, the original shortlist of cities on BCCI list comprised: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Dharamsala, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore, Rajkot and Mumbai and Trivandrum. It is understood that Nagpur and Pune, too, are under consideration. It is likely that the league matches will be hosted across 10 cities, with two more cities staging the warm-up fixtures preceding the main tournament.

Asia Cup to be formally discussed at ACC meeting

Shah, who is also the current president of the Asian Cricket Council, said an emergent meeting of the ACC will be held to finalise whether the hybrid model proposed by the PCB for the 2023 Asia Cup is feasible.On Sunday, Shah will be meeting his counterparts from Sri Lanka Cricket, Bangladesh Cricket Board, and Afghanistan Cricket Board to informally discuss their views on the Asia Cup.Pakistan are the hosts of this year’s Asia Cup, scheduled for September, but with India declining to travel there, the ACC has been looking at alternatives. Recently, the PCB had suggested a hybrid model for the six-team tournament, where four of the 13 matches will be held in Pakistan. Both India and Pakistan are grouped together along with Nepal. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are part of the second group.The biggest challenge about the hybrid model concerns the travel involved. Shah said “two or three countries” had sent in their views, which will be formally discussed at the ACC meeting in the next ten days.Shah said, in his capacity as ACC chairman, he wanted the Asia Cup to go ahead this year. The tournament has not been be hosted in Pakistan or India since 2008 due to the political differences between both countries.

Shaheen shines at the death; Zalmi will face Islamabad United in the first Eliminator

Danyal Rasool21-Feb-2022Peshawar Zalmi 158 for 7 (Fawad 2-26) tied with Lahore Qalandars 158 for 8 (Hafeez 49, Afridi 39*) – Zalmi won after Super OverIt looked as if a lacklustre chase from Lahore Qalandars would doom them to defeat in this season’s final group stage game against Peshawar Zalmi, but a scarcely credible blitz from Shaheen Shah Afridi got them through to a Super Over. He thwacked an unbeaten 39 off 20 balls, including 23 in the final over and six off the last ball, to take his side there, but that was as good as it got for the Qalandars. A splendid Super Over with the ball from Zalmi skipper Wahab Riaz saw the Qalandars manage just five, and Shoaib Malik put away the first two Afridi balls of the chase for boundaries, wrapping up a win that should have been Zalmi’s half an hour earlier, but ensuring they take momentum with them into the Eliminator against Islamabad United on Thursday.Until the thrilling finish, it seemed that a brace of top-order wickets from Arshad Iqbal had broken the Qalandars’ resistance to allow Zalmi to cruise towards their fourth successive win. A handful of cameos with the bat had helped them post a target of 159, and a Qalandars side which appeared less than fully engaged in what was effectively a dead rubber never maintained the tempo required for the chase.Mohammad Hafeez may have top scored in the chase with 49 off 44, but for the bulk of his innings, he failed to ensure his side was on top of the asking rate. With the big hitters failing to fire, the requirement kept ballooning to the point where the Qalandars needed 24 off the final over.Shaheen smashed a four and two sixes, and suddenly the Qalandars were back within seven of victory, only for a couple of dot balls from Mohammad Umar to take it down to the death. His final ball was in the slot, Shaheen pumped it over long-on for a huge six, and a Gaddafi crowd that had begun to filter out stormed back in for the one-over shootout.Coming into the game, both sides were assured passage to the next round, and barring a heavy defeat, the Qalandars were guaranteed to get two bites at the cherry. They ensured that remained the case despite defeat in a game where the lack of intensity was palpable for much of the contest. Malik top-scored for Zalmi with 32 off 28, with five of the top six reaching double figures. The electric Mohammad Haris was the only one who fell short, his Qalandars namesake Haris Rauf dismissing him in the second over, while Fawad Ahmed, playing his first game this season, was the pick of the crop, taking 2 for 26 in his allotted four.Related

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Fakhar Zaman fell off the first ball, just the second time all tournament he departed early. The other occasion came against Karachi Kings two days ago, and as on that day, the Qalandars’ ability to hunt down a target melted away. No one was able to replace him nearly as effectively, and at one point the Qalandars went almost seven full overs without a boundary.Right up until the frenetic final two overs, Zalmi’s discipline with the ball was excellent, with Wahab, Amad Butt and Khalid Usman all keeping the Qalandars on a leash. There was plenty of sloppiness in the field though, to the chagrin of an increasingly agitated Wahab, though for the best part, it appeared as if it wouldn’t make a difference to the outcome.Shaheen’s belligerence, though, meant the game with little riding on it turned into something of a cult classic. The high of that glorious final-ball six, though – after which Shaheen held his arms aloft in that iconic pose usually reserved for a top-order wicket – was followed by a flat Super Over. It wasn’t the result that mattered tonight, but the entertainment, and Shaheen had ensured, belatedly, there was enough of that to sate a nearly full house.

Lanning achieves No. 1 ODI position for fifth time, spinner Jess Jonassen retains the bowlers’ top spot

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Oct-2020Australia captain Meg Lanning vaulted to No. 1 in the ICC rankings for women’s ODI batters for a fifth time on the back of her 163-run tally in her side’s 3-0 whitewash of New Zealand that culminated in a record-equalling 21st ODI win in a row. Left-hand batter Rachael Haynes, the Player of the Series, advanced to a career-best 13th position while left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen retained the top spot in the bowlers’ list.Lanning amassed 163 runs in the first two ODIs, including a series-clinching Player-of-the-Match unbeaten 101 in the second game, before a hamstring strain ruled her out of the third and final fixture on Wednesday. Her move up to No. 1 in the ODI batters’ rankings, displacing West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor, marks her return to the top spot for the first time since October 2018.ALSO READ: Lanning interview – ‘I want to be the best in the world’In an international career nearing its tenth year, Lanning, 28, has been the No. 1-ranked ODI batter for a total of 902 days since the first time she achieved the feat in November 2014. Last week she rose one spot to No. 5 on the T20I batters’ rankings after finishing as the second-highest run-scorer in Australia’s 2-1 series win against New Zealand.Haynes, who led Australia in the final ODI and opened for the hosts, gained seven places after finishing as the leading run-scorer in the series with 222 runs, compiled through knocks of 44, 82 and 96.ALSO READ: Coach Mott praises ‘drummer in the band’ Haynes after record winJonassen, who topped the ODI bowlers’ rankings for the first time in July 2017, took eight wickets in the series, including 4 for 36 in the second ODI. She has been No. 1 for 599 days spread over six spells, including the ongoing streak that began in October last year.Notable gains made by other bowlers include Australia spinners Georgia Wareham (up from 35th to 24th) and New Zealand spin-bowling allrounder Amelia Kerr (up from 18th to 13th) along with pace bowler Rosemary Mair (up 14 places to 49th).Amy Satterthwaite, the New Zealand top-order batter, re-entered the ODI rankings in fifth position after scoring 111 runs in the series, while Suzie Bates exited the top 10 after a shoulder injury sidelined her for the second and third ODIs.Following the T20I rankings update, Satterthwaite, for whom the New Zealand tour marked a return to international cricket post-childbirth, had re-entered the rankings in 35th position after finishing as New Zealand’s leading run-scorer in the three-match T20I series with a 69-run tally.Australia and New Zealand retained their first and fifth positions respectively in the ODI team rankings.