Abhishek Sharma has further established his T20I credentials with fine performances in the England T20I series. The Southpaw registered 279 runs in five matches including a sensational century in the last game.
Abhishek’s heroics helped him to further bridge the gap with Travis Head, who continues to top the ICC Men’s T20I batting rankings. But Abhishek is now just 26 rating points behind Head, who has accumulated 855 points so far. Among other Indians, Tilak Varma is positioned in 3rd place, while Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav is 5th as per the latest ICC rankings.
It also turns out to be Abhishek’s career-best rankings in T20Is and the youngster is tipped for more success in the near future for the ‘Men In Blue’.
It’s a similar story on the bowlers’ rankings with spinner Varun Chakravarthy moving up three places to joint second with Adil Rashid on the back of his 14 wickets and player-of-the-series effort against England.
Fellow spinner Ravi Bishnoi (up four places to sixth) also climbed the list after taking five wickets in the series against England. Left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh also finds himself in top 10 at ninth place.
West Indies spinner Akeal Hosein re-claims his spot as the No.1 bowler after he lost the mantle to Rashid a week earlier.
A host of Australian players gained ground in the latest Test rankings following their impressive effort in defeating Sri Lanka by an innings and 242 runs during the recent first Test in Galle.
Stand-in skipper Steve Smith gained three places to move up to fifth following his 35th Test century, while opener Usman Khawaja climbed six places to 11th after contributing his highest Test score of 232 during the romp.
Yashavi Jaiswal remained on the fourth spot in the Test batters list, which is being headed by England’s Joe Root, followed by Harry Brook and New Zealand’s Kane Williamson .
Jasprit Bumrah , who is recovering from back spasm, maintained his top spot. He was recently named ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year and ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year.
Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja is the other Indian in top 10 at the ninth spot. South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada jumped a spot to the second while Australia captain Pat Cummins is at third position, followed by Josh Hazlewood and Noman Ali of Pakistan .
Veteran Australia spinner Nathan Lyon has improved two spots to jump to sixth overall and pacer Mitchell Starc is up two places to 12th following their efforts in Galle.
