Rashid tops Twenty20 International rankings
Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan has moved up to take top position among bowlers in the latest T20I Player Rankings with some fine performances in a 2-0 series win over Zimbabwe.
Rashid, who last week became the youngest male cricketer to be top-ranked in the ICC rankings when he rose up to joint-first in ODIs, has moved up after taking five wickets in the two-match series in Sharjah to complete the double.
The 19-year-old Rashid’s movement was not the only one at the top as New Zealand opener Colin Munro and Australia’s Glenn Maxwell became the top-ranked batsman and all-rounder, respectively.
The latest update includes performances in the Trans-Tasman series in New Zealand that also featured Australia and England, a three-match series in South Africa that India won 2-1, and Sri Lanka’s 2-0 win over hosts Bangladesh.
Left-handed Munro has gained three slots after scoring 176 runs in the Trans-Tasman series, which came with the help of two fifties and at a strike-rate of almost 210.
Maxwell regained the top slot for all-rounders scoring 233 runs and grabbing three wickets in the tournament.
In the list of batsmen, New Zealand opener Martin Guptill (up six places to fifth) has made significant movement after scoring 258 runs while England’s Dawid Malan (up 127 places to a career-best 22nd), India opener Shikhar Dhawan (up 14 places to a career-best 28th), South Africa captain Jean-Paul Duminy (up four places to 24th) Bangladesh’s Soumya Sarkar (up three places to 20th) and Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis (up 66 places to 75th) are among the others to gain.
Among bowlers, New Zealand leg-spinner Ish Sodhi has gained one position to take second rank but is 59 points adrift of Rashid.
India pace bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar (up 20 places to 12th) and England leg-spinner Adil Rashid (up eight places to 15th) have made noteworthy gains while Australia fast bowler Andrew Tye’s 10 wickets have helped him jump 53 places to a career-best 49th position.
Meanwhile, India have gained one point and South Africa have lost one point in the T20I Team Rankings after their closely-fought series and retain their third and seventh positions, respectively. Pakistan are on the top of the table at 126 points but only fractionally ahead of Australia.
ICC T20I Team Rankings (as of 25 February):
Rank
Team
Points
1
Pakistan
126
2
Australia
126
3
India
122 ( 1)
4
New Zealand
116
5
Windies
115
6
England
114
7
South Africa
111 (-1)
8
Sri Lanka
91
9
Afghanistan
88
10
Bangladesh
72
11
Scotland
67
12
Zimbabwe
61
13
UAE
52
14
Netherlands
49
15
Hong Kong
46
16
PNG
39
17
Oman
38
18
Ireland
36
(Developed by David Kendix)
T20I Player Rankings (as of 25 February):
Batsmen (top 20)
Rank
( /-)
Player
Team
Pts
Avge
S/R
Highest Rating
1
( 3)
Colin Munro
NZ
801
33.51
164
805 v Pak at Wellington 2018
2
( 5)
Glenn Maxwell
Aus
799
34.58
166
801 v NZ at Auckland 2018
3
(-2)
Babar Azam
Pak
786*
48.08
122
787 v NZ at Auckland 2018
4
(-2)
Aaron Finch
Aus
763
40.20
152
892 v Ban at Mirpur 2014
5
( 6)
Martin Guptill
NZ
747
34.40
133
793 v SA at Hamilton 2012
6
(-3)
Virat Kohli
Ind
741
50.84
137
897 v Eng at Edgbaston 2014
7
(-2)
Evin Lewis
Win
734*
36.00
155
780 v Eng at Durham 2017
8
(-2)
Lokesh Rahul
Ind
683*
50.88
148
757 v SL at Indore 2017
9
(-1)
Alex Hales
Eng
679
31.65
136
866 v Ind at Edgbaston 2014
10
( 2)
M. Shahzad
Afg
653
31.85
136
706 v Ire at Greater Noida 2017
11
(RE)
H. Masakadza
Zim
648
29.20
118
699 v Ban at Khulna 2016
12
(-3)
H. Amla
SA
643
34.51
133
683 v Ban at Potchefstroom 2017
13
( – )
Kane Williamson
NZ
634
31.33
121
760 v Ban at Napier 2017
14
(-5)
Joe Root
Eng
630
39.10
129
750 v Win at Kolkata 2016
15
( 2)
Eoin Morgan
Eng
618
29.96
132
872 v Ind at Old Trafford 2011
16
( – )
Shaiman Anwar
UAE
615
31.12
121
636 v PNG at Abu Dhabi 2017
17
(-2)
Rohit Sharma
Ind
604
30.52
136
681 v Ban at Mirpur 2016
18
(-4)
Fafs du Plessis
SA
594
36.09
133
843 v Ban at Mirpur 2015
19
( – )
David Warner
Aus
589
26.74
140
826 v Win at St Lucia 2010
20
( 5)
Soumya Sarkar
Ban
581*
20.89
129
599 v SL at Mirpur 2018
Bowlers (top 20)
Rank
( /-)
Player
Team
Pts
Avge
ECO
Highest Rating
1
( 1)
Rashid Khan
Afg
759!
13.72
5.86
759 v Zim at Sharjah 2018
2
( 1)
Ish Sodhi
NZ
700
19.33
7.43
739 v Pak at Wellington 2018
3
( 2)
Samuel Badree
Win
691
18.72
5.98
855 v Pak at Mirpur 2014
4
( 3)
Imad Wasim
Pak
677
20.25
6.01
780 v Win at Trinidad 2017
5
(-1)
Jasprit Bumrah
Ind
674
20.43
6.85
764 v Eng at Bengaluru 2017
6
(-5)
Mitchell Santner
NZ
665
21.37
7.14
731 v Pak at Wellington 2018
7
( 1)
M. Rahman
Ban
656
16.92
6.55
695 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2017
8
(-3)
Imran Tahir
SA
650
15.85
6.80
795 v NZ at Auckland 2017
9
( 2)
Sunil Narine
Win
636
20.68
6.02
817 v Pak at St. Vincent 2013
10
(-1)
Shakib Al Hasan
Ban
635
20.65
6.79
672 v Pak at Mirpur 2014
11
( 1)
M. Naveed
UAE
626
17.27
6.06
632 v Afg at Dubai (GCA) 2016
12
( 20)
B. Kumar
Ind
622!
22.07
6.74
622 v SA at Cape Town 2018
13
( 1)
Shadab Khan
Pak
608*!
16.15
6.41
608 v NZ at Bay Oval 2018
14
( 2)
Y. Chahal
Ind
605*
19.14
8.40
617 v SA at Centurion 2018
15
( 8)
Adil Rashid
Eng
601!
30.17
7.79
601 v NZ at Hamilton 2018
16
( 1)
Trent Boult
NZ
599
21.18
8.53
622 v Aus at Sydney 2018
17
(-2)
Chris Jordan
Eng
598
27.88
8.77
628 v Ind at Nagpur 2017
18
(-9)
James Faulkner
Aus
597
19.00
7.96
688 v SL at Adelaide 2017
19
(-6)
Hamza Hotak
Afg
590
24.68
6.75
627 v Ire at Greater Noida 2017
20
(RE)
Graeme Cremer
Zim
589
18.85
6.94
669 v Ban at Khulna 2016
All-rounders (top five)
Rank
( /-)
Player
Team
Pts
Highest Rating
1
( 1)
Glenn Maxwell
Aus
390
396 v Eng at Melbourne 2018
2
(-1)
Shakib Al Hasan
Ban
326
408 v Pak at Mirpur 2015
3
( – )
Mohammad Nabi
Afg
292!
292 v Zim at Sharjah 2018
4
( – )
Marlon Samuels
Win
239
321 v SL at Mirpur 2014
5
( – )
JP Duminy
SA
235
276 v Ban at Mirpur 2015
*indicates provisional rating
! indicates best rating
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