India batter Suryakumar Yadav and South Africa spinner Tabraiz Shamsi have made remarkable gains in the ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings, they moved to No 2 Position for T20I Batter and Bowler Respectively.
Surya Kumar Yadav has moved up three spots and reached his career best 2nd Spot. He is only two rating points behind of top-ranked Babar Azam.
He achieved this feat after classy 44-ball knock of 76 that won him the Player of the Match award in the 3rd T20I against West Indies. He scored 111 runs from three matches in the series against the West Indies which his side leads 2-1.
South Africans Wrist Spinner Tabraiz Shamsi, who was top-ranked for most of the period from April to October last year. He has gain one spot and reach Nom2 from No.3 after his Career best 5-24 in the Decider Match against England. But he remains 64 rating points adrift of top-ranked Josh Hazlewood, who is on 792 rating points. He gained 19 Rating Points after his 8 wickets in three games.
After three Consecutive Fifties South African batter Reeza Hendricks has moved 16 slots to No 15 and West Indies Opener Brandon King moved 29 places up to 27th after his Brilliant Performance against India.
England Jonny Bairstow up to 13 places to 31st and South African batter Rillee Rossouw who coming back to the side after 6 years moved to No.37 among Batters.
West Indies spinner Akeal Hosein (up three places to sixth), England’s Chris Jordan (up one place to 16th), New Zealand spinners Mitchell Santner (up three places to 17th) and Ish Sodhi (up two places to 19th) are among T20I bowlers.
Sri Lanka players have made notable gains in the ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings after winning the second match of their ICC World Test Championship series against Pakistan in Galle which ended 1-1.
Off Spinner Ramesh Mendis reached 31st Position after taking nine wickets in the match, Left arm Spinner Prabhath Jayasuriya gained 11 Slots and moved to 33rd Position after finishing with eight wickets in the match.
Dinesh Chandimal is up two places to 16th among batters with 101 runs in two innings and Dhananjaya de Silva has moved from 49th to 41st after scoring a century in the second innings.
For Pakistan, Mohammad Rizwan (up three places to 17th). And Imam-ul-Haq (up 15 places to 49th) have moved up the list for batters. And Naseem Shah (up seven places to 60th) and Mohammad Nawaz (up 21 places to 68th) among bowlers.
In the ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings, Indian opening Batter Shikhar Dhawan has moved up one slot to 12th position. After getting a half-century in the last match of their ODI series against West Indies. India bowlers Yuzvendra Chahal (16th) and Shardul Thakur (72nd) have also gained in the latest ranking. West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran is up two places to 30th.