Following a significant shift in the most recent MRF Tyres ICC Men`s Player Rankings, Pakistan`s Babar Azam has reclaimed the top spot for ODI batsmen from India`s Shubman Gill, while an English spinner has emerged as the newest player to hold the top spot for T20I bowlers.
In the T20I rankings for bowlers, Adil Rashid has been rewarded for his strong, consistent play in the Caribbean. Less than six months before the ICC Men`s T20 World Cup begins, he moves up two spots to take the top spot from Afghanistan`s Rashid Khan (second) and India`s Ravi Bishnoi (third).
Rashid becomes just the second player from England to hold the No.1 ranking for T20I bowlers after off-spinner Graeme Swann held the top spot back more than a decade ago.
On a busy day for the rankings, West Indies spinner Akeal Hosein (up three spots to sixth) and his South Africa counterpart Tabraiz Shamsi (up three places to ninth) also made impressive moves inside the top 10. This means that three different players have held the top spot on the list for T20I bowlers over the last three weeks.
While Phil Salt rises to 20th after his outstanding run for England in the Caribbean, West Indies quartet Brandon King (up six spots to sixth), Nicholas Pooran (up two spots to 12th), Rovman Powell (up 14 places to 23rd), and Kyle Mayers (up nine spots to 33rd) made some ground on top-ranked T20I India batter Suryakumar Yadav.
In the last match of India`s series against South Africa, Suryakumar scored a fast century to extend his lead at the top to 100 rating points. His nearest competitors are South Africa`s Aiden Markram (third) and Pakistan`s Mohammad Rizwan (second).
Markram moves up one place to third behind Bangladesh`s Shakib Al Hasan on the latest T20I rankings for all-rounders, with England spinner Moeen Ali (up two spots to equal eighth) and West Indies seamer Jason Holder (up one rung to 24th) also making the ground.
