Tag: ICC T20I Ranking

DUBAI: Pakistan spinner Sufiyan Muqeem has made significant strides in the latest ICC Men’s T20I Rankings, emerging as the country’s highest-ranked bowler.

The left-arm wrist spinner jumped 11 spots to claim 22nd position with 594 rating points.

Shaheen Afridi also enjoyed a boost, climbing eight places to 26th. In contrast, Haris Rauf slipped four spots to 28th, while Abbas Afridi dropped to 33rd.

Mohammad Nawaz recorded one of the biggest improvements, moving up 15 places to 43rd, while Abrar Ahmed and Shadab Khan fell to 66th and 81st, respectively.

New Zealand pacer Matt Henry retains the No.1 position in the ICC Men’s T20I Bowling Rankings, with England’s Adil Rashid second and West Indies spinner Akeal Hosein third.

Among batters, young middle-order player Hasan Nawaz rose two places to 31st with 580 points.

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Captain Salman Ali Agha registered the most notable jump, climbing 18 spots to 59th, while Fakhar Zaman, despite a lean patch, edged up two places to 77th.

Senior duo Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, who are currently out of Pakistan’s T20I setup, slipped to 21st and 22nd.

Saim Ayub dropped to 40th, and opener Sahibzada Farhan slid four places to 67th.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz climbed to 18th, and Ibrahim Zadran surged to 20th.

At the top of the batting charts, India’s Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma continue to occupy the first two spots, followed by England’s Phil Salt in third.

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DUBAI: India star Abhishek Sharma has made major strides in ICC T20I batting and all-rounders Rankings after his heroics against England in the five-match T20I series.

Abhishek Sharma jumped up to 38 places and replaced his compatriot Tilak Verma from second place in the T20I batter rankings along with climbing 31 spots in the all-rounders ranking.

Sharma climbed up to the rankings due to his all-round performance in the fifth and final match of the series in Mumbai. He smashed 135 runs on just 54 balls which included 13 sixes along with scalping took two wickets which also bagged him the Player of the Match award.

Australia’s explosive batter Travis Head is still on the top of the batting rankings in the above-mentioned format but Sharma is not far behind him sitting on second place with just 26 rating points difference.

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Varma and team India captain Suryakumar Yadav are in third and fifth place respectively after dropping down one position in the rankings.

Meanwhile, West Indies’ Akeal Hosein has reclaimed the number-one spot after he was dethroned by England’s Adil Rashid last week. Rashid has dropped down to second place, where he is now joined by mystery Indian spinner Varun Chakravarthy who has jumped three places.

Chakravarthy is closing up to the number one spot with Hosein with a difference of only two rating points after his fine performance with the ball against England.

In the T20I All-Rounder Rankings, Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya is still at the top while Nepal Dipendra Singh Airee is in the number two spot.

Meanwhile, Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah continues to rule the ICC Test Bowling Rankings following his superb series against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) where he took 32 wickets.

The ICC Test Batting Rankings are headed by England’s run machine Joe Root while his teammate Harry Brook sits in second place.

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DUBAI: Pakistan all-format captain Babar Azam has dropped one spot in the latest ICC T20I batting rankings after he missed the recently-held three T20Is against Afghanistan.

Babar had been rested for the away series against Afghanistan in Sharjah and as a result, he lost his place in the top three on the T20I batters’ list.

According to International Cricket Council’s latest ranking updates, New Zealand’s Devon Conway displaced Babar from the third position as the latter slipped one spot to fourth overall.

However, the New Zealand opener maintains a meagre 13 points lead over Babar, as he sits third on 768 points in the rankings.

Meanwhile, India’s Suryakumar Yadav and Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan retain first and second positions on the list, respectively.

On the other hand, Pakistan’s stand-in skipper Shadab Khan was duly rewarded for his impressive bowling in the three games against Afghanistan. He jumped eight places to fourth on the T20I all-rounder rankings and improved six spots to 12th overall on the list for bowlers.

It may be noted here Pakistan lost the three-T20I series by 2-1 against Afghanistan in the absence of experienced players from the squad. It was the first time Afghanistan had beaten the Green Shirts in a bilateral series.

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