Records tumble in women’s cricket as Wolvaardt and Shree Charani make history

Wolvaardt joins Mandhana at summit

Laura Wolvaardt created history with a blistering 126 and joined Smriti Mandhana at the top of the Women’s century chart.

Indian breakthrough in rankings

In the ICC Women’s T20I Rankings, Shree Charani created history by becoming the first Indian to cross the 800-point mark.

Captaincy and other milestones

Nigar Sultana is set to make a big call on Bangladesh T20I captaincy and step down after the Asian Games. Jos Buttler broke Rohit Sharma’s record to become the second-highest T20I run-scorer. In the men’s T20I Rankings, Abhishek Sharma leapt past Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan while Jasprit Bumrah broke into the top 10.

Elsewhere, 21 years after Australia’s last ODI century against Zimbabwe, Matt Renshaw hit Australia’s first ODI century against Zimbabwe since 2004. Zimbabwe’s Brendan Taylor made history against Australia as Sachin Tendulkar’s ODI record was broken.