The English batsman, Dawid Malan has attained the highest-ever rating points for batsmen in the latest ICC Men’s T20I batsman’s Rankings after amassing 173 runs in the series against South Africa which England won 3-0. He has reached the tally of 915 points as he also became the first batsman to surpass the 900-point mark.
England, who had started the series at 271 points, are now level with Australia at 275 points but ahead on decimal points. South Africa and New Zealand have retained their fifth and sixth positions respectively while the West Indies have slipped behind Afghanistan to 10th place after losing 2-0 to New Zealand in another series. England’s Jos Buttler has taken a leap of seven spots to reach 21st position while South Africa’s Rassie van der Dussen has lifted him 17 places to a career-best fifth position.
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Faf du Plessis’s return to form has helped him to regain his position in the top 20. Among the bowlers, England’s leg-spinner Adil Rashid is back to the 700-point mark, as he is standing at 4th place. He is just one spot below his career-best third position achieved in November 2018. The top seven bowlers are all spinners, with Tabraiz Shamsi, South Africa’s top-ranked bowler in 5th place.
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Chris Jordan has also taken a leap of a position to reach the 12th rank. Fast bowler Lungi Ngidi makes an entry into the top 50 bowlers for the first time after taking four wickets in the series. Glenn Phillips celebrated his recall to the New Zealand T20I side for the first time in a couple of years by smashing a century in the second match and climbing into the top 100 batsmen for the first time – ending the series in 86th place.
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Kieron Pollard was the West Indian star of the series, scoring 103 runs at a strike rate of 198. That was good enough to take him up 18 places to the 57th rank with the bat and up to seventh place in the all-rounders’ table. For India, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, and Rohit Sharma are standing at 4th, 9th and 10th positions repectively.
