Imran Tahir moves to no. 3, Axar Patel at career best rank in ICC ODI Rankings
England will aim to move ahead of fifth-ranked Sri Lanka in the ICC ODI Team Rankings when the two sides go head to head in a five-match ODI series in Nottingham on Tuesday, 21 June.
England is currently in sixth position on 103 points, two behind Sri Lanka, and requires a 4-1 series win to leapfrog Sri Lanka. A 5-0 sweep of the series will mean England will finish on 108 points as compared to Sri Lanka’s 100 points.
On the other side of the coin, if Sri Lanka wins all the five matches of the series, then it will rise to 109 points to claim fifth position behind third-ranked South Africa and fourth-ranked India. A 3-2 series will gain one points, while England will drop one point.
Meanwhile, the West Indies has gained five valuable points and has moved to 93 points after winning a match each against world champion Australia and South Africa in the ongoing tri-series in the Caribbean. The West Indies had started the series on 88 points and can potentially move ahead of seventh-ranked Bangladesh if it remains unbeaten in its forthcoming matches.
As England along with the next seven highest ranked sides as on 30 September 2017 will qualify directly for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, every point earned in the lead up to the cut-off date is extremely crucial and vital. And more importantly for the teams bunched in the middle of the pack, with fifth-ranked Sri Lanka separated by ninth-ranked Pakistan by 18 points.
After seven matches of the tri-series, number-one ranked Australia is on 122 points after dropping two points, while third-ranked South Africa is on 111 after dropping one point. If South Africa loses to the West Indies on Friday, 24 June, then it will end up on 110 points and a fraction of a point behind India.
Meanwhile in the ICC ODI Player Rankings, there have been changes in the top 10 of the batting table.
Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan and New Zealand team-mates Kane Williamson of New Zealand and Martin Guptill have benefitted from Rohit Sharma’s absence from the series against Zimbabwe and Quinton de Kock’s ordinary form to rise up the chart. Dilshan and Williamson now share fourth position while Guptill is in sixth position following Sharma’s drop to seventh (down by two) and de Kock’s eighth (down by four).
Outside the top 10, the Australia trio of David Warner, Steve Smith and George Bailey have made upward movements.
Warner, who with 165 runs is the third highest scorer in the tri-series, has gained three places and is now in 12th position. Smith has moved up two places to 15th position after scoring 140 runs in four innings of five matches while Bailey has earned one place and is now in 17th spot.
Outside the top 20, Usman Khawaja is the biggest mover. The left-hander has vaulted 70 places to 87th after having scored 187 runs in the series to date.
Other batsmen to make impressive gains in the latest player rankings are James Faulkner 26th (up by two places), Marlon Samuels 29th (up by two places), Johnson Charles 34th (up by 23 places), Kusal Perera 41st (up by 10 places), Ambati Rayudu 45th (up by 15 places) and Farhaan Behardien 55th (up by nine places).
AB de Villiers, whose 200th ODI lasted just six deliveries in Barbados on Sunday, is the number-one ranked batsman. He is followed by India’s Virat Kohli, 79 points behind, while Hashim Amla is third.
In the bowlers’ rankings, Sunil Narine has returned to his number-one position. He had led New Zealand’s Trent Boult by three points going into the series. The off-spinner now leads Boult by 28 points after claiming eight wickets in the tri-series to date.
South Africa’s Imran Tahir has jumped three places to second position. The wrist spinner is the leading wicket-taker in the series with 13 wickets to date, including a career-best seven for 45 against the West Indies.
However, India’s Axar Patel and Australia’s Josh Hazlewood are the bowlers to have achieved career-best rankings.
Patel, who took three wickets against Zimbabwe, has lifted 20 places to 13th and is now just three places behind India’s highest-ranked bowler Ravichandran Ashwin. Hazlewood’s five wickets to date means he has broken into the top 20 for the first time and is in 17th position after rising 19 places.
India’s Jasprit Bumrah, who with nine wickets was the most successful bowler in the series, has stormed up 125 places to 97th, while Dhawal Kulkarni’s five wickets in the series have lifted him 29 places to 88th.
Other bowlers to improve their rankings include Sri Lanka’s Suranga Lakmal 30th (up by four places), South Africa’s Kyle Abbott 38th (up by five places), Zimbabwe’s Tendai Chatara 47th (up by five places), South Africa’s Wayne Parnell 52nd (up by six places), Ireland’s Tim Murtagh 57th (up by 20 places), Australia’s Mitchell Marsh 62nd (up by two places), West Indies’ Sulieman Benn 66th (up by 14 places), Australia’s Nathan Coulter-Nile 68th (up by 20 places) and Adam Zampa 126th (up by 38 places).
The top batsmen who will target to improve their rankings in the upcoming series between England and Sri Lanka include Joe Root (ninth), Jos Buttler (19th), Angelo Mathews (22nd), Eoin Morgan (25th), Alex Hales (31st) and Lahiru Thirimanne (33rd).
10th-ranked Moeen Ali will lead the bowlers’ charge as the other bowlers to make an impression in the series include Steven Finn (17th), Sachithra Senanayake (21st), Angelo Mathews (41st) and Adil Rashid (51st).
The ODI player rankings will now be updated on 27 June, after the conclusion of the tri-series in the West Indies and third ODI between England and Sri Lanka.
Forthcoming ODI series:
West Indies, Australia and South Africa
21 June – West Indies v Australia, Bridgetown
24 June – West Indies v South Africa, Bridgetown
26 June – Final, Bridgetown
England v Sri Lanka
21 June – 1st ODI, Nottingham
24 June – 2nd ODI, Edgbaston
26 June – 3rd ODI, Bristol
29 June – 4th ODI, The Oval
2 July – 5th ODI, Cardiff
ICC ODI Team Rankings (as on 20 June, after seventh match in the tri-series between the West Indies, Australia and South Africa, and before the start of England and Sri Lanka series)
Rank Team Points
1 Australia 122 (-2)
2 New Zealand 113
3 South Africa 111 (-1)
4 India 110 (+1)
5 Sri Lanka 105
6 England 103
7 Bangladesh 98
8 West Indies 93 (+5)
9 Pakistan 87
10 Afghanistan 51
11 Zimbabwe 46
12 Ireland 41 (-1)
(Developed by David Kendix)
ODI Player Rankings (as on 20 June, after seventh match in the tri-series between the West Indies, Australia and South Africa, and before the start of England and Sri Lanka series)
Batsmen (top 20)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) AB de Villiers SA 892 53.95 902 v NZ at Auckland 2015
2 ( – ) Virat Kohli Ind 813 51.51 886 v Ban at Fatullah 2014
3 ( – ) Hashim Amla SA 788 52.26 901 v Eng at Trent Bridge 2012
4= (+2) T. Dilshan SL 752 39.44 802 v Sco at Hobart 2015
(+3) Kane Williamson NZ 752 47.00 798 v SA at Centurion 2015
6 (+2) Martin Guptill NZ 751! 43.25 751 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
7 (-2) Rohit Sharma Ind 750 42.08 761 v Aus at Sydney 2016
8 (-4) Quinton de Kock SA 749 42.44 789 v Eng at Centurion 2016
9 (+1) Joe Root Eng 739 44.34 743 v SA at Johannesburg 2016
10 (-1) Shikhar Dhawan Ind 737 43.97 794 v SA at Melbourne 2015
11 ( – ) Faf du Plessis SA 730! 41.06 730 v Aus at Barbados 2016
12 (+3) David Warner Aus 719 39.15 726 v SA at St Kitts 2016
13 (-1) MS Dhoni Ind 706 51.25 836 v Aus at Delhi 2009
14 (-1) Ross Taylor NZ 702 43.90 743 v Zim at Harare 2015
15 (+2) Steve Smith Aus 678 40.40 709 v Ind at Canberra 2016
16 ( – ) Aaron Finch Aus 677 37.62 743 v Eng at Melbourne 2015
17 (+1) George Bailey Aus 665 41.35 867 v SA at Harare 2014
18 (+1) Jos Buttler Eng 663 35.25 706 v SA at Port Elizabeth 2016
19= (+1) Mushfiqur Rahim Ban 661 31.61 671 v Zim at Mirpur 2015
(+1) Soumya Sarkar Ban 661* 49.42 671 v SA at Chittagong 2015
Bowlers (top 20)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge HS Rating
1 ( – ) Sunil Narine WI 759 25.40 4.05 791 v SL at Jamaica 2013
2 ( – ) Trent Boult NZ 731* 22.96 4.81 745 v Aus at Auckland 2016
3 (+3) Imran Tahir SA 701 22.75 4.66 735 v SL at Sydney 2015
4 (-1) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 699 27.89 4.30 717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
5 (-1) Mitchell Starc Aus 678 19.54 4.83 783 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
6 (-1) Matt Henry NZ 675*! 22.17 5.42 675 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
7 ( – ) Dale Steyn SA 649 25.93 4.86 746 v Ind at Durban 2013
8 ( – ) Morne Morkel SA 642 24.36 4.93 717 v SL at East London 2012
9 ( – ) Mohammad Irfan Pak 616 31.14 4.91 641 v UAE at Napier 2015
10 (+1) Moeen Ali Eng 610*! 37.81 4.91 610 v SA at Cape Town 2016
11= (+1) James Anderson Eng 606 29.22 4.92 719 v SA at The Oval 2013
(-1) R. Ashwin Ind 606 31.73 4.85 691 v SL at Hambantota 2012
13= (+20) Axar Patel Ind 603*! 28.09 4.40 603 v Zim at Harare 2016
( – ) Kagiso Rabada SA 603* 22.44 4.89 635 v Aus at Guyana 2016
15 (-1) M. Shami Ind 580 24.89 5.54 654 v Ban at Melbourne 2015
16 (-1) M. Mortaza Ban 579 30.76 4.73 653 v Zim at Mirpur 2009
17= ( – ) Steven Finn Eng 575 28.96 5.09 755 v NZ at Auckland 2013
(+19) Josh Hazlewood Aus 575* 24.71 4.57 587 v SA at St Kitts 2016
19 (-3) Rangana Herath SL 570 31.91 4.41 703 v SA at Pallekele 2013
20 (-1) M. Hafeez Pak 568 34.86 4.10 769 v Ind at Kolkata 2013
All-rounders (top five)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Rating
1 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 416 453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
2 ( – ) M. Hafeez Pak 363 438 v Ind at Kolkata 2013
3 ( – ) T. Dilshan SL 341 415 v Sco at Hobart 2015
4 ( – ) Angelo Mathews SL 330 427 v Eng at Colombo (RPS) 2014
5 ( – ) James Faulkner Aus 317 361 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
*indicates provisional rating; a batsman qualifies for a full rating after a minimum of 40 started innings; a bowler qualifies for a full rating after he has conceded 1,500 runs.
!indicates career-highest rating
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