ICC T20I rankings: Seifert and Southee achieve career-bests

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Tim Seifert New Zealand

Black Caps batsman Tim Seifert and fast bowler Tim Southee have attained career-best positions in the ICC T20I rankings after their contributions to a 2-1 series win over Pakistan.

Seifert shot up 24 places to a career-best ninth position after a hot streak in the home series saw him top the runscoring with 176 runs.

Southee and Seifert on the charge

Seifert, who was named player of the series with the high point being a career-best 84 not out off 63 balls in the second match in Hamilton, had a previous highest ranking of 32nd in August this year.

Southee’s six wickets in the series lifted him from 13th to seventh position in the T20I rankings for bowlers. His six scalps included a haul of four for 21 in the second match and enabled him to better his previous best of 10th position achieved in November last year. Southee has reached the top 10 in all three formats during his career, having career-bests of fourth in Tests and ninth in ODIs.

Devon Conway (up 10 places to 62nd) and Glenn Phillips (up 15 places to a career-best 72nd) are the other New Zealand players to move up in the batting list while fast bowler Scott Kuggeleijn has progressed from 134th to 92nd place after finishing with five wickets in the series.

For Pakistan, Mohammad Hafeez’s 140 runs, which included an unbeaten 99 in the second match, see him gain 14 places to reach 33rd position. Mohammad Rizwan’s 158 runs, including a match-winning 89 in the final game, have lifted him 152 places to 158th position.

Pakistan’s bowlers had more to cheer about, with Faheem Ashraf moving up 22 places to 13th position, Shaheen Afridi gaining up 11 ranks to reach a career-best 16th position and Harif Rauf’s five wickets in the series helping him climb 42 places to 67th on the chart.

In the Men’s T20I Team Rankings, Pakistan have lost three points and New Zealand have gained three, but the two retain their fourth and sixth positions, respectively. 

T20I Rankings

Batting (top 10)

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge S/R Highest Rating
1 ( – ) Dawid Malan England 915! 53.43 149 915 v SA at Cape Town 2020
2 ( – ) Babar Azam Pakistan 820 50.93 130 896 v Eng at Cardiff 2019
3 ( – ) Lokesh Rahul India 816 44.05 145 854 v Eng at Old Trafford 2018
4 ( – ) Aaron Finch Australia 808 37.70 154 901 v Zim at Harare 2018
5 ( – ) Rassie van der Dussen South Africa 744*! 38.71 137 744 v Eng at Cape Town 2020
6 (+1) Glenn Maxwell Australia 701 33.07 158 838 v SL at Adelaide 2019
7 (+1) Virat Kohli India 697 50.48 138 897 v Eng at Edgbaston 2014
8 (-2) Colin Munro New Zealand 695 31.34 156 830 v Pak at Dubai 2018
9 (+24) Tim Seifert New Zealand 685! 27.83 139 685 v Pak at Napier 2020
10 (-1) Hazratullah Zazai Afghanistan 676* 40.71 155 736 v WI at Lucknow 2019

 

Other selected rankings

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge S/R Highest Rating
33 (+14) Mohammad Hafeez Pakistan 516 27.98 121 650 v SL at Dubai 2013
62= (+10) Devon Conway New Zealand 431* 58.00 150 459 v WI at Bay Oval 2020
72= (+15) Glenn Phillips New Zealand 400*! 24.84 137 400 v Pak at Napier 2020
158= (+152) Mohammad Rizwan Pakistan 232*! 22.35 109 232 v NZ at Napier 2020

 

Bowling (top 10)

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Eco Highest Rating
1 ( – ) Rashid Khan Afghanistan 736 12.62 6.14 816 v Ban at Dehradun 2018
2 ( – ) Mujeeb-ur-Rahman Afghanistan 730 17.72 6.15 745 v Ire at Greater Noida 2020
3 ( – ) Adil Rashid England 700 25.80 7.52 716 v WI at St Kitts 2019
4 ( – ) Adam Zampa Australia 685 21.23 6.60 720 v SL at Brisbane 2019
5 ( – ) Tabraiz Shamsi South Africa 680 33.28 7.68 699 v Eng at Paarl 2020
6 ( – ) Ashton Agar Australia 664 20.86 6.87 717 v Eng at Southampton 2020
7 (+6) Tim Southee New Zealand 636* 25.95 8.42 638 v Eng at Nelson 2019
8 (+1) Sheldon Cottrell West Indies 634 21.81 7.89 648 v NZ at Auckland 2020
9 (-2) Mitchell Santner New Zealand 628 22.03 7.49 724 v Pak at Wellington 2018
10 ( – ) Chris Jordan England 618 25.31 8.70 659 v NZ at Wellington 2019

 

Other selected rankings

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Eco Highest Rating
13 (+22) Faheem Ashraf Pakistan 609 23.06 7.20 656 v SA at Cape Town 2019
16 (+11) Shaheen Afridi Pakistan 597! 23.77 7.78 597 v NZ at Napier 2020
67 (+42) Haris Rauf Pakistan 422*! 23.25 8.65 422 v NZ at Napier 2020
92= (+42) Scott Kuggeleijn New Zealand 373*! 33.38 9.07 373 v Pak at Napier 2020

 

 

All-rounders (top five)

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Highest Rating
1 (-) Mohammad Nabi Afghanistan 294 355 v Ban at Mirpur 2019
2 (-) Shakib Al Hasan Bangladesh 268 409 v Pak at Mirpur 2015
3 (-) Glenn Maxwell Australia 220 368 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2016
4 (-) Richie Berrington Scotland 194 204 v Ire at Malahide 2019
5 (-) Sean Williams Zimbabwe 190 225 v Nepal at Singapore 2019
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