{"id":784744,"date":"2026-07-07T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784744\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:16:12","slug":"mooney-returns-to-rankings-summit-after-t20-world-cup-heroics-icc-womens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784744\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooney returns to rankings summit after T20 World Cup heroics | ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 32-year-old hit 238 runs for the tournament at an average of 47.60, striking at a rate of 142.51. Mooney smashed 64 off 49 balls in the decider against England<\/a>, laying the platform for Australia’s nerve-free run chase. That followed a 61* (off 36 balls) in Australia’s semi-final win over the West Indies<\/a>, coming up clutch in both of the Aussies’ knockout games.<\/p>\n

Mooney (785 ranking points) has leapfrogged opening partner Georgia Voll<\/a> who drops down just one placing to 2nd (779 ranking points).\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is Mooney\u2019s fifth stint as number one, and only Karen Rolton has occupied that spot longer than Mooney, who has spent more than four years on top<\/p>\n

Laura Wolvaardt<\/a> (3rd, 771 points), Hayley Matthews<\/a> (4th, 754 points) and Smriti Mandhana<\/a> (5th, 746 points) hold their spots inside the top five.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s Tazmin Brits<\/a> (up three spots to 11th) and Nat Sciver-Brunt<\/a> (up five spots to 16th) were the big movers inside the world’s top 20 in batter rankings following the conclusion of the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n

For Sciver-Brunt, her two half-centuries in the T20 World Cup contests against South Africa (75) and Australia (58*) propelled her up the ladder following her return from injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 32-year-old hit 238 runs for the tournament at an average of 47.60, striking at a rate of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-784744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}