Indian leggie Yuzvendra Chahal broke into the top-10 bowlers list of the latest ICC rankings, while opener Shikhar Dhawan slipped four places in the batsmen list after a torrid home series against West Indies. Indian skipper Virat Kohli, who bagged a staggering 453 runs in the ODI series against the Windies and completed his 10,000 ODI runs, retained his position as the top-ranked batsman in the world.
Kohli earned 15 points, which took his points tally to 899, 28 ahead of his second-ranked team mate and deputy Rohit Sharma, who collected 29 points after a brilliant home series against Windies in which he scored 389 runs. Rohit’s point tally of 871 is his highest to-date.
Dhawan, who didn’t even score a half century in the five-match series against the Windies, has slipped four places to be ninth.
In the bowler’s list, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravindra Jadeja and Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya made huge strides, with No.1 ranked Jasprit Bumrah achieving a career-high of 841 points, which is the highest since Shaun Pollock’s 894 in 2008.
Meanwhile, Kuldeep Yadav also hit a career-high points of 723, while his team mate Chahal broke it into the top 10 for the first time in his career by rising three places to eighth. While, Jadeja has climbed 16 places to move to 25th spot after notching seven wickets.
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For Windies, talismanic duo of Shai Hope and Shimron Hetmeyer are the biggest gainer in the batsmen rankings. The duo are having their best career rankings and are separated by only nine points.
However, England are the numero uno side, with India being the second. The Men in Blue trail England by five points and lead the third-ranked New Zealand by nine points.
ICC ODI BATSMEN RANKINGS:
1 Virat Kohli IND 899
2 Rohit Sharma IND 871
3 Joe Root ENG 807
4 David Warner AUS 803
5 Babar Azam PAK 798
6 Ross Taylor NZ 785
7 Kane Williamson NZ 778
8 Quinton de Kock SA 769
9 Shikhar Dhawan IND 767
10 du Plessis SA 753
ICC ODI BOWLERS RANKING
1 Jasprit Bumrah IND 841
2 Rashid Khan AFG 788
3 Kuldeep Yadav IND 723
4 Trent Boult NZ 699
5 Josh Hazlewood AUS 696
6 Kagiso Rabada SA 691
7 Imran Tahir SA 685
8 Yuzvendra Chahal IND 683
9 Adil Rashid ENG 683
10 Hasan Ali PAK 681