Former Indian skipper, Virat Kohli has witnessed an exit from the top 10 of ICC T20I Batting Rankings once again after missing the recently-concluded 3-match series against Sri Lanka. Skipper Rohit Sharma has also come down a couple of places to 13th place after an ordinary outing against the visiting Lankans in Lucknow and Dharamsala.
Virat Kohli, who was at the standing at the 10th place after the conclusion of the 3-matchT20I series against the West Indies, was rested from the T20I series against Sri Lanka. Notably, Kohli had shown signs of a return to form when he hit a match-winning fifty against the West Indies in the 2nd T20I. Meanwhile, Rohit looked uncharacteristic in the Sri Lanka T20Is, getting out to Dushmantha Chameera in the last two games. He managed just 50 runs in the 3 matches against Sri Lanka.
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Shreyas Iyer, who was in stunning form during the series, has witnessed a jump fo 27 places to 18th in the T20I Rankings for Batters. Iyer scored three unbeaten half-centuries during India’s 3-0 rout of Sri Lanka last month, with the 27-year-old scoring as many as 204 runs at a strike rate of 174.
KL Rahul, who also missed the Sri Lanka series, is the only Indan among the top 10. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s Pathum Nissanka scored an impressive 75 in the second game of the series and he was rewarded with a six-spot rise to ninth on the rankings. In the bowling charts, Bhuvneshwar Kumar has taken a jump of 3 places to the 17th after a good showing against Sri Lanka. He is the only Indian bowler among the top 20 while Jasprit Bumrah dropped 3 spots to 28th.
ICC T20I Rankings – India batters in top 10
- KL Rahul – 10
- Rohit Sharma – 13
- Virat Kohli -15
- Shreyas Iyer – 18
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The biggest mover on the Test rankings was South African fast bowler, Kagiso Rabada, who shot up three places to third following his impressive display against New Zealand. Rabada had scalped 10 wickets during the two-match series, with his magnificent haul of 5/60 in the first innings of the second Test helping the Proteas on their way to an important win by a huge margin of 198 runs. Marnus Labuschagne remains as the top ranked Test batter, with New Zealander Devon Conway jumping six places to 17th following with his knock of 92 in the second innings of the second Test against South Africa.
