The International Cricket Council Player Rankings are a popular technique for evaluating international cricketers based on their most recent performances. Currently, 10 teams are included in WODI rankings, but all qualified ICC association members are considered for WT20I. The rankings feature the top ten WODI and WT20I batters, bowlers, and all-rounders based on each player’s rating. Let us take a look at the top 10 best ICC women ODI bowlers in the world.
Ranking Of ICC Women ODI Bowlers
| Player | Team | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Sophie Ecclestone | England | 771 |
| Shabnim Ismail | South Africa | 732 |
| Jess Jonassen | Australia | 725 |
| Megan Schutt | Australia | 722 |
| Jhulan Goswami | India | 663 |
| Marizanne Kapp | South Africa | 662 |
| Ayabonga Khaka | South Africa | 635 |
| Anya Shrubsole | England | 629 |
| Kate Cross | England | 617 |
| Hayley Matthews | West Indies | 612 |
1. Sophie Ecclestone
Sophie Ecclestone was born on 6 May 1999. She is an English cricketer who plays for the England women’s team and the Manchester Originals. In July 2021, she was selected as the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for June 2021. At the age of 17, she started her WT20I debut during Pakistan’s tour to England on July 3, 2016. She took her first wicket during the match. In September 2016, she was picked to the England women’s One Day team for the following month’s tour to the West Indies.
She made her Test debut for England against Australia in the Women’s Ashes on November 9, 2017. She was selected to England’s team for the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies in October 2018. Ecclestone was one of the players to watch prior to the competition. She was picked to England’s team for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia in January 2020. Ecclestone grabbed her 50th wicket in WT20Is and 100th wicket in international cricket on March 1, 2020. She became the youngest woman in WT20I history to take 50 wickets. She also emerged as the world’s number one WT20I bowler.
2. Shabnim Ismail (One Of The Best ICC Women ODI Bowlers)
Shabnim Ismail was born on October 5, 1988. She is a South African cricketer who made her national team debut in January 2007. Ismail is a right-arm fast bowler who has taken the most wickets for South Africa in both the One Day International and Twenty20 International forms. Further, she has developed a reputation as one of the world’s fastest female bowlers. She has played in every ICC Women’s World Twenty20 event since 2009. Ismail has played in seven ICC World Twenty20s, in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.
Initially, she was a second change bowler. Subsequently, she became a frontline bowler. She leads the bowling attack from the front and frequently opened the bowling. For more than a decade, she has been a critical player in South Africa’s bowling attack. She mostly opens the bowling with Marizanne Kapp. Ismail became the fourth bowler in WT20I history to collect her 100th wicket in January 2021. As of 2022, she holds the record for taking the most wickets at a single venue.
3. Jess Jonassen
Jess Jonassen was born on 5 November 1992. She is an Australian cricketer from Queensland. Jonassen, a left-arm bowling all-rounder, has been a part of Australia’s women’s side since 2012. Further, she played a crucial role in helping the team in winning four ICC T20 World Cups. Further, she became the fourth woman to take 100 One Day wickets. Domestically, she is the captain of both the Queensland Fire and the Brisbane Heat. Jonassen started playing against New Zealand in a Twenty20 match on January 20, 2012. She also started playing in the ODI match against New Zealand on January 25, 2012. Four days later she took her first ODI wicket.
Jonassen played in all five games and took five wickets in the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka. She had her best tournament performance in the final against England, taking 3/25 from four overs as Australia won the match. Jonassen made a great comeback on 20 August 2013, leading Australia to victory at Lord’s in the opening ODI of the 2013 Women’s Ashes. Jonassen played in all six matches and got six wickets in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
4. Megan Schutt (One Of The Best ICC Women ODI Bowlers)
Megan Schutt was born on 15 January 1993. She is an Australian cricketer. Schutt is a medium-fast bowler for the national team since 2012. She was the first Australian cricketer to score a hat-trick in a Women’s Twenty20 match. Schutt made her debut against New Zealand as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. She took two wickets in her second match against the same team. She was named a player to watch in ESPNcricinfo’s review of women’s cricket in 2012. Schutt was included in Australia’s Women’s Cricket World Cup team in 2013. During the World Cup, Schutt played in all seven games of Australia, taking 15 wickets. In each of the matches, she took at least one wicket. She opened the bowling attack for Australia in the World Cup final against the West Indies.
Her best bowling performance for Australia was three wickets for 40 runs against New Zealand in a World Cup group match. She was chosen as a member of the ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year in December 2017. Schutt became the first bowler for Australia Women to take a hat-trick in WT20Is in March 2018. She was picked to Australia’s team for the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies in October 2018. She was one of the players to watch before the competition. Schutt was picked to Australia’s team for the Women’s Ashes series against England in January 2022. She was picked in Australia’s selection for the 2022 Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand later that month. Schutt recorded her 100th wicket in WODI cricket on 3 February 2022, in the opening ODI match of the Women’s Ashes.
5. Jhulan Goswami
Jhulan Goswami was born on November 25, 1982. She is an Indian cricketer and former captain of the India women’s cricket team. Goswami is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast. Further, she is one of the finest women fast bowlers of all time. Further, she is also one of the fastest bowlers in women’s cricket history. In 2007, she was named ICC Women’s Player of the Year. In 2011, she received the M.A. Chidambaram Trophy for Best Women’s Cricketer. In January 2016, Goswami was rated first in the ICC Women’s ODI bowling rankings.
Goswami has the most wickets in Women’s ODI cricket. Further, she became the first bowler in ODI history to take 200 wickets in February 2018. In her honor, an Indian postage stamp was released in April 2018. Goswami became the first bowler in ODI history to take 250 wickets in March 2022, during the Women’s Cricket World Cup.
6. Marizanne Kapp
Marizanne Kapp was born on 4 January 1990. She is a South African cricketer who plays for the national women’s team. She was the first South African cricketer to score a hat-trick in a Women’s Twenty20 match. Kapp was chosen as a member of the ICC Women’s ODI Team of the Year in December 2017. During the series against the West Indies in September 2018, she took her 100th WODI wicket.
She was picked to South Africa’s team for the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies in October 2018. Kapp was South Africa’s top run-scorer in the tournament, scoring 98 runs in four matches. She was picked to South Africa’s team for the 2022 Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand in February 2022. Kapp recorded her maiden five-wicket haul in WODI cricket on 14 March 2022, during South Africa’s World Cup match against England.
7. Ayabonga Khaka
Ayabonga Khaka was born on 18 July 1992. She is a South African cricketer who plays for the national cricket team as a right-arm medium bowler. In March 2018, she was one of fourteen players to be awarded a national contract by Cricket South Africa ahead of the 2018–19 season. Initially, Khaka started playing for the national team in September 2012 against Bangladesh. In May 2018, she took her 50th wicket in Women’s ODIs, during the series against Bangladesh.
She was picked to South Africa’s team for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia in January 2020. Khaka recorded her first five-wicket haul in WODIs in January 2022, when she took 5 for 26 against the West Indies in the second match. Further, she was picked to South Africa’s team for the 2022 Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand in February 2022. Finally, Khaka grabbed her 100th WODI wicket against Bangladesh in South Africa’s first match of the tournament.
8. Anya Shrubsole
Anya Shrubsole was born on 7 December 1991. She is a cricketer from England who presently plays for Berkshire, the Southern Vipers, and the Southern Brave. She represented England from 2008 to 2022 and has previously played for Somerset, Western Storm, and Perth Scorchers in domestic cricket. Shrubsole bowls right-arm medium speed and bats right-handed in the lower order. She started playing for England in 2008 and was named Player of the Match in the Women’s World Cup Final in 2017. Further, she was the first woman to be on the cover of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack in 2018. Finally, Shrubsole announced her retirement from international cricket in April 2022.
9. Kate Cross (One Of The Best ICC Women ODI Bowlers)
Kate Cross was born on 3 October 1991. She is a cricketer from England. In 2007, she made her debut for England’s Under-21 team. She joined the England senior squad for a tour of the West Indies in October 2013. Further, Cross made her T20 debut against the West Indies and her One Day International debut against the West Indies in November 2013. She took 4 for 51 against the West Indies in her second game of the series, earning her the Player of the Match award. England won the final two games in a three-game series against the West Indies in the Caribbean, becoming the first side to do it.
10. Hayley Matthews
Hayley Matthews was born on March 19, 1998. She is a Barbadian sportswoman. Matthews plays for the West Indies as an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling right-arm off break. She has also represented Barbados in the javelin throw in various tournaments. Matthews made her Barbadian cricket team debut when she was 12 years old. Her West Indies debut came at the age of 16 in a Twenty20 International against New Zealand in September 2014. A few months later, Matthews made her One Day International (ODI) debut, hitting 55 runs off 86 balls in the first game of a four-ODI series against Australia.
Matthews has been a regular player for the West Indies since her debut, and she was an important player in the side that won the World Twenty20 in 2016, scoring 66 runs off 45 balls in the final.
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