India skipper Virat Kohli, who smashed unbeaten 77 in the third T20I towards England on Tuesday, has moved again into the highest 5 whereas England star batsman Jos Buttler has re-entered the highest 20 in the newest ICC males’s T20I rankings after blistering performances in their ongoing five-match sequence in Ahmedabad.
Kohli, a previously top-ranked batsman in the format and at the moment primary in ODIs, has gained one slot and a large 47 score factors after unbeaten knocks of 73 and 77 in the second and third T20I respectively. The India skipper is on the fifth spot and that has made him the one batsman to be positioned in the top-5 throughout all three codecs.
Back-to-back fifties in the continued #INDvENG sequence have helped Virat Kohli reclaim the No.5 spot in the @MRFWorldwide ICC T20I Player Rankings
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— ICC (@ICC) March 17, 2021
Meanwhile, Buttler’s match-winning 83 not out in the third match has helped him advance 5 locations to the nineteenth place, simply two shy of his career-best seventeenth place attained in October 2018.
Shreyas Iyer (up 32 locations to thirty first) and Rishabh Pant (up 30 locations to eightieth) have gained amongst batsmen whereas all-rounder Washington Sundar (up two locations to eleventh) and seam bowlers Shardul Thakur (up 14 locations to twenty seventh) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (up seven locations to forty fifth) have moved up the record for bowlers.
For England, Jonny Bairstow, who chipped in with 40 runs and was related in an unbroken 77-run stand with Buttler in the eight-wicket win on Tuesday, has moved up two slots to 14th place in the record led by his compatriot Dawid Malan. Jason Roy has superior 4 slots to twenty fourth with scores of 49 and 46 in the primary two matches.
Fast bowlers Jofra Archer (up 43 locations to thirty fourth) and Mark Wood (up 59 locations to thirty ninth), in addition to left-arm seam bowler Sam Curran (up 41 locations to 74th) have gained in the weekly replace for males, carried out on Wednesdays.
In the boys’s ODI rankings, wicketkeeper-batsman Shai Hope’s Player of the Series effort towards Sri Lanka, in which he had scores of 110, 84 and 64, has helped him achieve 5 slots and attain joint-seventh place, three off his career-best fourth place attained in May 2019.
Nicholas Pooran (up one place to thirty second), Evin Lewis (up 10 locations to forty fourth) and Darren Bravo (up eight locations to 99th) are the opposite West Indies gamers to transfer up in the batting record after their staff gained the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League sequence 3-0. Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph’s 4 wickets see him advance seven locations to a career-best twenty seventh place.
For Sri Lanka, Danushka Gunathilaka has gained 20 slots to attain 51st place after scoring 187 runs in the sequence whereas PWH de Silva (up from 94th to 66th) and Lakshan Sandakan (up from 124th to 99th) are amongst these to transfer up the bowlers’ record.
In the boys’s Test Rankings, Hashmatullah Shahidi has entered the highest 100 after notching up Afghanistan’s first Test double century, which helped his staff beat Zimbabwe by six wickets to degree the two-match sequence 1-1. He has rocketed 47 locations to ninetieth place.
(With ANI inputs)
