England Adil Rashid claims top spot in ICC T20I Rankings

DUBAI: England cricket team star spinner Adil Rashid claims top spot in ICC T20I Rankings after his excellent recent form against India in a five-match T20I series.

Adil Rashid moved up one place and replaced West Indies Akeal Hosein as the number-one bowler in the T20I rankings.

The right-arm leg spinner bowled economically in all three T20I matches played against India. Rashid claimed the economical figures of 1/15 from four overs in the third T20I to help England clinch a narrow 26-run victory that kept the five-match series alive.

The 36-year-old now has collected a total of three wickets across the first three matches of the five-game series that India leads 2-1.

Meanwhile, the major mover inside the top 10 of the ICC T20I bowling Rankings was Indian Spinner Varun Chakravarthy who climbed 25 places to fifth following his five-wicket haul in Rajkot.

England fast bowler Jofra Archer jumped 13 spots to sixth overall after two wickets in the same match.

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Australia’s star Travis Head is at the top of the rankings for T20I batters but after young Indian left-hander Tilak Varma’s recent form, he is poised to challenge Head’s number-one position.

Varma jumped one spot to second after his scorers of 9*, 72* and 18 from three matches against England. According to the International Cricket Council (ICC), if the left-hand batter topples Head for the number one spot, he will become the youngest-ever player to top the rankings.

The current record for that is held by Pakistan’s Babar Azam, who became the No.1-ranked T20I batter at the age of just 23 years and 105 days.

In Men’s T20i All-Rounder Rankings, India cricketer Hardik Pandya is still at the top while Nepal
Dipendra Singh Airee is on the number two spot.

In Men’s Test Bowler Rankings West Indies spinner Jomel Warrican gained 16 spots to climb to 25th place after his Player of the Series heroics against Pakistan that netted 19 wickets.

India pacer Jasprit Bumrah remains on top of the Test bowlers rankings following his superb series against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) where he took 32 wickets. His compatriot Ravindra Jadeja is still on the top of ICC Men’s Test All-rounder Rankings.

The top position for Test batter is still headed by England run-machine Joe Root while his teammate Harry Brook sits in second place.

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