The triumph helped India overtake England at the top of the T20 team rankings, with Rohit Sharma's side now matching the top rating of 269.
India opener KL Rahul gained a slot to occupy the fifth spot while middle-order batter Suryakumar Yadav galloped 24 places to the 59th position in the ICC men's T20I player rankings.
India's top-ranked bowler in the list is veteran pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar at 12th while injured off-spinner Washington Sundar is the other in the top-20 at 18th place.
Verma is holding onto her top rank with 759 ranking points, ahead of Australian Beth Mooney (744) and India T20 vice-captain Smriti Mandhana (716).
Rizwan is the second-highest ranked Pakistan batsman in the list, only behind captain Babar Azam, who is now in third place.
Verma, who had regained the top position last week, garnered 26 rating points for her knock in the final and is now currently on 776 rating points.
Ahead of India in the T20I Team Rankings, England is sitting on the top of the pile, seven points ahead of Kohli and Co.
With 744 rating points, Verma is behind leader Beth Mooney (748) of Australia while Mandhana has 693 points.
With 816 rating points, Rahul is behind England's Dawid Malan (915) who retained his top spot, while Kohli has 697 points.
In fact, Rahul and Kohli are the only two Indians to feature in the top-10 list of players rankings in all three categories -- batsman, bowlers and all-rounders.
Washington Sundar continues to remain India's highest-ranked T20I bowler, having moved a spot up to 11th place with 614 points
Hafeez moved 24 places from 68 to 44 in the latest rankings. Banton jumped a whopping 152 places to take the 43rd spot.
India's opener in the shortest format, KL Rahul remains second in the latest T20I rankings, but Virat Kohli has dropped down to 10th position.
Among the bowlers, Poonam Yadav dropped six places to fall out of the top 10 and take the 12th position.
Pakistan can only retain their No.1 ranking in T20Is if they beat Bangladesh in all the three T20Is to be played from January 24 to January 27 in Pakistan.
Among the batters, Jemimah Rodrigues continued to occupy the fourth spot, while Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur too remained static at the seventh and ninth positions respectively.
Indian captain Virat Kohli has entered the top 10 in the ICC T20I Rankings, while KL Rahul remains the highest-ranked Indian batsman.
In the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings, Pakistan continue at the top with 270 points but Australia are only one point behind them after winning their three-match series 2-0.
Australia have a 7-12 record against Pakistan in the 20 times they have faced each other in T20Is.
Lasith Malinga produced a stellar performance as he took four wickets off four successive deliveries against New Zealand, and has justifiably jumped 20 places in the latest T20I rankings.
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