ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020, most runs and wickets after February 24: Chamari Athapaththu and Poonam Yadav claim the top

In the first match on February 24, Australia Women chased down a target of 123 in 19.3 balls with five wickets remaining. Batting first Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu scored a 38-ball 50 and helped her team post a decent total. During the chase, the hosts had a tough time initially but Rachael Haynes (60) and Meg Lanning (41*) stabilized the innings and won the match.

The next fixture of the day saw Shafali Verma once again showing her class with a 17-ball 39 as Jemimah Rodrigues (34) did her bit too. Bangladesh failed to reach the target of 143 and lost the match by 18 runs.

Athapaththu is currently leading the following table followed by Verma in third place. Meg Lanning has entered the top ten with two more Indian young players, Sharma and Rodrigues enjoying fifth and sixth places respectively. Alysa Healey after scoring a duck moved down to seventh rank.

Player	Team	R	Ave	SR	100	50
Chamari Athapaththu	Sri Lanka	91	45.50	133.8	0	1
Sophie Devine	New Zealand	75	–	136.4	0	1
Shafali Verma	India	68	34.00	212.5	0	0
Rachael Haynes	Australia	66	33.00	120.0	0	1
Deepti Sharma	India	60	60.00	96.8	0	0
Jemimah Rodrigues	India	60	30.00	85.7	0	0
Alyssa Healy	Australia	51	25.50	137.8	0	1
Natalie Sciver	England	50	50.00	122.0	0	1
Dane van Niekerk	South Africa	46	46.00	90.2	0	0
Meg Lanning	Australia	46	46.00	88.5	0	0

Poonam Yadav took three wickets to claim the top with a total of seven wickets to her name. Her colleague Shikha Pandey is in second place with five wickets. Australia’s Jess Jonassen and Nicola Karey are now in sixth and seventh place respectively.

Player	Team	W	Ave	Econ	4WI
Poonam Yadav	India	7	5.28	4.62	1
Shikha Pandey	India	5	5.60	3.57	0
Stafanie Taylor	West Indies	3	4.33	4.33	0
Hayley Jensen	New Zealand	3	5.33	4.00	0
Ayabonga Khaka	South Africa	3	8.33	6.25	0
Jess Jonassen	Australia	3	15.67	5.87	0
Nicola Carey	Australia	2	9.00	6.00	0
Sophie Ecclestone	England	2	9.50	4.75	0
Marizanne Kapp	South Africa	2	9.50	4.75	0
Dane van Niekerk	South Africa	2	10.00	5.00	0
Amelia Kerr	New Zealand	2	10.50	5.25	0
Panna Ghosh	Bangladesh	2	12.50	6.25	0
Salma Khatun	Bangladesh	2	12.50	6.25	0
Udeshika Prabodhani	Sri Lanka	2	16.50	4.12	0
Molly Strano	Australia	2	19.00	6.33	0
Shashikala Siriwardene	Sri Lanka	2	20.50	5.85	0
Chamari Athapaththu	Sri Lanka	2	27.00	7.71	0
Rajeshwari Gayakwad	India	2	28.00	7.00	0
Arundhati Reddy	India	2	33.00	8.25	0