Smriti Mandhana slips to second spot in ICC rankings after missing ODI series against South Africa due to injury

Dubai: Injured India opener Smriti Mandhana has lost her number one status after being toppled by New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite in the batting chart of the latest ICC ODI rankings. [caption id=“attachment_6107701” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Smriti Mandhana. Image credit: Twitter/@WHITE_FERNS[/caption] Mandhana, who has 755 points, slipped to the number two spot after she missed India’s recently concluded ODI series against South Africa due to injury. The 23-year-old suffered a fracture in her right toe after being struck by a ball during a net session before the start of the ODI series against South Africa which India won 3-0. Among others batters, skipper Mithali Raj moved down to the seventh spot while Harmanpreet Kaur rose in the rankings to the occupy the 17th place. In the bowlers’ rankings, Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey and Poonam Yadav moved down to be placed sixth, eighth and ninth respectively. Among the all-rounders, Deepti Sharma has moved down to the third place while Shikha Pandey broke into the top 10.