3 min readMar 10, 2026 10:20 PM IST Swashbuckling Indian batter Smriti Mandhana retained the top spot in the latest women’s ODI batting ranking released here on Tuesday. Mandhana was joined by her captain Harmanpreet Kaur who remained static on eighth spot. However, Jemimah Rodrigues dropped a rung to 12th after India lost the three-match ODI series 0-3 against Australia. A host of New Zealand’s best white-ball stars have been the big winners on the latest update. The White Ferns have been in superb form at home having opened up an unassailable 2-0 lead over Zimbabwe in the three-match ODI series and it’s no surprise that new skipper Melie Kerr is leading the way with both bat and ball. Kerr collected four wickets in the opening match of the series and then backed that up with a magnificent seven-wicket haul during the second contest in Dunedin when she became just the seventh player overall to collect seven wickets or more in a women’s ODI. That effort saw Kerr jump five places to 11th overall on …