Mithali Raj held on to the top spot in the batting list, while Jhulan Goswami was the best-placed Indian in the bowling chart after climbing a spot to third in the latest ICC ODI rankings for women cricketers.
The next two Indian batters in the list after Mandhana are Jemimah Rodrigues and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, who are placed 14th and 15th respectively.
Rohit Sharma followed up his knock of 73 in the second ODI in Adelaide with a match-winning unbeaten 121 in Sydney to be named the Player of the Series.
India opener Smriti Mandhana has jumped three places to reach a career-best third position in the latest ICC Women's T20I Player rankings released on Sunday.
Kane Williamson was included in the New Zealand squad for December's three-Test series against West Indies.
Washington Sundar jumped seven places to move to 46th on the same list for Test bowlers.
Suryakumar Yadav has dropped one spot to fourth place in the latest ICC Men's T20I Players Rankings
India's One-day captain Mithali Raj and top batter Harmanpreet Kaur were placed 2nd and 10th in the ICC batswomen's rankings released after the World Cup qualifier that ended on Tuesday.
In the latest ICC ODI Rankings, Mohammed Siraj was dethroned from the top as he slipped to third place, while Josh Hazlewood climbed to the top.
Among the all-rounders, Deepti Sharma retained her fourth spot with 359 points in the list headed by Ellyse Perry of Australia with 460 points.
Former Australian captain Brad Haddin encouraged the Aussie public to go out and watch Indian icons Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in action
Kohli trails Smith by 26 points and will have to produce a string of strong performances to leapfrog the Australian.
Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne occupy the top two slots in bowling rankings after the Super Test
Australia captain Steve Smith reached a career-high 939 rating points which are the sixth-best ever after Don Bradman (961), Len Hutton (945), Jack Hobbs and Ricky Ponting (both 942) and Peter May (941).
Virender Sehwag's career best 319 against South Africa catapulted him to the 12th spot in the ICC Test Rankings.
The humiliating 0-4 whitewash at the hands of Australia resulted in India dropping a rung to third spot in the ICC Test rankings with Michael Clarke's team breathing down their neck just a fraction of a point behind in the table.
The number one tag still eludes them but newly-crowned World Champions India have closed the gap on top-placed Australia even as the team's in-form players moved up in the individual standings of the latest ICC ODI rankings issued in Dubai on Monday.
Suryakumar smashed three fifties in five innings
India off-spinner Deepti Sharma has been rewarded for her excellent recent form as she moved up two places to reach career-high second spot in the latest ICC women's ODI rankings for bowlers on Tuesday.
Jasprit Bumrah continues to dominate the ICC Test bowling rankings, retaining his position as the No. 1 bowler.
India and England managed to retain top spots in the Test and ODI team rankings respectively, following the annual update of the ICC rankings on Thursday.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued to top the ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen, while young guns Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli made big strides in the chart following stellar performances in the just-concluded tri-series in Bangladesh.
Smriti Mandhana achieved a career-best world number two rank in T20Is and climbed to the seventh spot in ODIs
India gained five points to move up to third place with South Africa maintaining its pole position in the latest International Cricket Council ODI team rankings.
Sachin Tendulkar moved up a rung to 11th while dashing opener Virender Sehwag also broke into the top-20 in the latest ICC ODI Rankings in which India held on to the third position in the team chart.
Sachin Tendulkar gained one place to be joint 16th and Yuvraj Singh climbed eight places up to 56th in the latest ICC Test rankings after they guided India to win in the first cricket Test against England in Chennai.
Virat Kohli became only the second batsman in the history of the game to cross the 900-point mark
Mohammed Siraj has revealed the close bonding he shares with Test captain Shubman Gill, highlighting both their on-field and off-field camaraderie.
Following his brilliant 202, Wasim Jaffer has jumped 17 places to 23rd in his best career-rating on the ICC charts.
Zaheer Khan has jumped ten places to 27th position in the latest ODI Player Rankings.
Bumrah leads a competitive field, including South African speedster Kagiso Rabada (856) and Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood (851).
Harmanpreet has moved up three places and now has 613 rating points while Shafali rose two rungs
As India chase history at home in Navi Mumbai, while Laura Wolvaardt's South Africa will look to script their own fairytale, by finally breaking their run of heartbreaks at ICC events.
Senior spinner Ravichandran Ashwin's five-wicket haul in the second innings has helped him narrow the gap with top-ranked Jasprit Bumrah to 21 rating points at 846 after the fast bowler was rested for the Ranchi Test.
Pakistan's batting great Javed Miandad is not happy with the present ranking system of the International Cricket Council even though the team has just become the number one ranked side. Miandad said while he was happy that Pakistan, despite the many problems it was facing as a cricket nation, had topped the test ranking table, the ICC needed to come out with a better system. "The present system is not satisfactory as there is not a proper system to rank a team on the matches it plays on home and away basis," he told PTI.
With 899 points, the Indian captain remained in pole position, while limited overs vice-captain Rohit Sharma remained second in the list.
India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin slipped a place to take the third position in the latest ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers in Dubai on Thursday.
Deepti Sharma breaks into the top-five of the latest ICC ODI Women's all-rounders rankings.
Indian One-day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is within touching distance of regaining the top spot in the ICC ODI Player Rankings after his consistent show with the bat in the just-concluded Asia Cup helped him jump two spots in the chart.
Marnus Labuschagne, who was dropped from the Test side during the tour of West Indies in June-July, has since hit three centuries in one-dayers and a couple more in Sheffield Shield for Queensland.
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