{"id":387,"date":"2025-12-23T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/?post_type=news&#038;p=387"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:02:23","slug":"deepti-sharma-icc-womens-t20i-bowling","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/news\/deepti-sharma-icc-womens-t20i-bowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepti Sharma ICC Womens T20I Bowling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India star all-rounder Deepti Sharma has etched her name into the record books by becoming the World No.1 T20I bowler for the first time in her career.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The historic rise comes after her impressive performance in the opening T20 International against Sri Lanka, played at the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday, December 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deepti dethroned Australia fast bowler Annabel Sutherland to claim the top spot in the latest ICC Women\u2019s T20I bowling rankings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indian all-rounder now sits at the summit with 737 rating points, holding a narrow one-point lead over the Australian pacer, highlighting the closely fought battle at the top of women\u2019s cricket rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Match-Winning Spell Against Sri Lanka<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deepti\u2019s ascent was powered by a disciplined and economical spell in India\u2019s dominant eight-wicket victory over Sri Lanka.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bowling with her trademark control, she conceded just 20 runs in her four overs and picked up the crucial wicket of Sri Lanka\u2019s No.3 batter Hasini Perera.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the figures may appear modest on paper, her accuracy through the middle overs played a key role in building pressure and restricting the opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The performance earned Deepti five valuable rating points, enough to push her past Sutherland, who had held the No.1 position since August. At 28 years of age, Deepti\u2019s achievement marks a significant milestone in a career defined by consistency across formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rankings Shuffle Across Formats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest ICC rankings update also witnessed notable movement in the ODI and T20I batting charts. Indian vice-captain Smriti Mandhana slipped to second place in the ODI batting rankings, with South Africa\u2019s Laura Wolvaardt reclaiming the top spot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolvaardt\u2019s return to No.1 was driven by back-to-back centuries in South Africa\u2019s 3-0 ODI <a href=\"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/series\">series<\/a> sweep against Ireland, which also saw her achieve a career-best rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India had more positives in the T20I rankings, with Arundhati Reddy climbing five places to 36th among bowlers following her performance against Sri Lanka.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jemimah Rodrigues emerged as one of the biggest movers, jumping five spots to ninth in the T20I batting rankings after scoring an unbeaten half-century and winning Player of the Match honours. She now joins Mandhana (third) and Shafali Verma (10th) inside the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":388,"template":"","tags":[214,215,216],"ppma_author":[493],"class_list":["post-387","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-deepti-sharma-t20i-bowler","tag-deepti-sharma-world-no-1","tag-icc-womens-t20i-bowling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbex.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}