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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