The Indian women’s cricket team has surpassed New Zealand to attain the third position in the T20I standings and retained the second spot in the ODI chart of the latest ICC rankings released on Friday (October 2).

Australia and England maintained the top two slots in the shortest format with 291 and 280 rating points, respectively.

India (270), who made the final of this year’s T20 World Cup, are a point ahead of New Zealand (269), the ICC said in a statement.

Brazil has recorded the biggest gain in the rankings table, moving up 11 places to 27 while the biggest ranking fall has been for Malaysia, who are down from 31st to 38th.

Samoa (up two places to 16th), Indonesia (up two places to 20th) and the United States of America (up four places to 31st) are among other teams to have made notable progress.

Coming to the ODI rankings, India (121) and England (119) have lost four points each while retaining their second and third positions respectively.

Australia’s brilliant showing during the rating period saw them win 20 of 21 ODIs, taking their rating tally to 160 points.  

South Africa (107) are placed at the fourth spot followed by New Zealand (94), West Indies (85), Pakistan (77), Bangladesh (61) and Sri Lanka (47).

The latest update doesn’t take into account the results of 2016-17 season, weights the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons at 50 per cent and the 2019-20 matches at 100 percent.

(With PTI inputs)