Top 10 Players in ICC T20I Rankings
ICC has released the latest ranking for the Batsman in T20I cricket. England beat New Zealand by 3-2 in the T20I series whereas India won the series against visitors Bangladesh by 2-1. Pakistan lost to Australia by 2-0. Lets have a look at the latest batsman rankings:
England’s Dawid Malan has made a grand re-entry to the latest ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings, grabbing third position in the batsmen’s list led by Pakistan’s Babar Azam, while Aaron Finch of Australia has taken the second spot after gaining two positions.
Malan, whose tally of 458 runs is more than anyone else in the first nine matches, though remains 94 rating points adrift of Babar in the latest update which includes the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019, the series between Australia and Pakistan, between New Zealand and England, as well as the one between India and Bangladesh.
England captain Eoin Morgan and New Zealand opener Martin Guptill have also made notable movements to take joint ninth place while Jonny Bairstow has reached a career-best 498 rating points and is in the top 40 for the first time.
Rohit Sharma ad Lokesh Rahul are the two Indian players that are in the top 10 list of T20I batsmen’s as per latest ranking.
Bangladesh batsman Mohammad Naim’s 143 runs in three matches see him at joint-38th position along with Bairstow, one slot behind Tony Ura, the top-ranked Papua New Guinea batsman.
Other batsmen to advance include Calum MacLeod of Scotland (up five places to 44th), Muhammad Usman of the United Arab Emirates (up 18 places to 45th) and Oman opener Jatinder Singh (up 54 places to 46th).
Top 10 T20I Batsman (As on 13th Nov.’19)
Babar Azam (Pakistan) - 876
Aaron Finch (Australia) - 807
Dawid Malan (England) - 782
Colin Munro (New Zealand) - 778
Glenn Maxwell (Australia) - 765
H Zazai (Afghanistan) - 727
Rohit Sharma (India) - 677
Lokesh Rahul (India) - 660
Eoin Morgan (England) & Martin Guptill (New Zealand) - 652