DTVHINDITilak Verma, who scored two centuries in T20I, took a huge leap in the ICC rankings, know which number he reached?
Tilak had scored two centuries in the recently concluded four-match T20 series against South Africa. TILAK VARMA (Image Credit- Twitter X) Indian cricket team’s 22-year-old young all-rounder Tilak Verma has made a huge leap in the latest ICC rankings released recently. Let us tell you that now he has reached the third position in the category of batsmen in T20 International cricket. Tilak has got the golden gift of batting stormy in the recently concluded four-match T20 series against South Africa. It is noteworthy that Tilak had created history by playing century innings in consecutive matches against the Proteas team. In this series, Tilak scored a total of 280 runs in the four matches played at a stormy strike rate of 198.58 and an average of 140. So now in T20 cricket, he has reached the third position in the category of batsmen with 806 rating points. Tilak has achieved this feat in just 20 matches. After the series against South Africa, Tilak has made a big and huge jump of 69 points. In T20 cricket, Australia’s opening batsman Travis Head is at the first position with 855 rating points, while England’s wicketkeeper batsman Phil Salt is at the second position with 828 rating points. TILAK VARMA MOVES TO NUMBER 3 IN ICC T20I BATTERS RANKING….!!! – Tilak jumps 69 positions after 2 terrific hundreds 🤯 pic.twitter.com/kFwxvXXXte —Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) November 20, 2024 A look at Tilak Varma’s cricket career On the other hand, if we tell you about Tilak Verma’s cricket career, he plays domestic cricket for Hyderabad. He was born on 8 November 2002 in Hyderabad. Tilak was the leading run-scorer for Hyderabad in the 2021–22 Ranji Trophy. Apart from this, till the time of writing the news, he has played 4 ODI and 20 T20 matches for Team India. Tilak has 68 runs in ODI at an average of 22.67 and 616 runs in T20 at an average of 51.33. Apart from this, he has scored a total of 1156 runs in 38 IPL matches at an average of 39.86.
Rishabh Pant took a huge leap in ICC Test rankings, Rohit-Virat out of top-20
Kohli is out of top-20 for the first time since December 2014 Rishabh Pant (Photo Source: Getty Images) India suffered a crushing 3-0 defeat in the Test series against New Zealand. Indian batsmen performed very poorly, but Rishabh Pant batted well. He scored half-centuries in both the innings of Mumbai Test. Now they have got the benefit of this. Pant made a tremendous leap in the new Test batting rankings released by ICC and has reached the top-10. Apart from this, Kiwi batsman Daryl Mitchell has also managed to make it to the top 10. Pant has jumped five places and has now reached sixth position. Mitchell, who was in third place before slipping down the table in September this year, has moved up eight places to seventh after scores of 82 and 21. Apart from this, Will Young, who won Player of the Series, has climbed 29 places to 44th position with a career-best 550 rating points. While another New Zealand batsman, Glenn Phillips has moved from 45th to 42nd position. Rohit-Virat got a big shock Shubhman Gill moved from 20th to 16th position after scoring 90 runs in the first innings, but opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has dropped to fourth position. Whereas former captain Kohli has been out of the list of top-20 Test batsmen in the world for the first time since December 2014. Rohit Sharma has also lost two places. Virat Kohli is now at 22nd position and Rohit Sharma is at 26th position. Talking about Test bowling rankings, Indian spinner Ravindra Jadeja and Kiwi spinner Ajaz Patel have got huge advantage. Jadeja has jumped two places to sixth position. Whereas Patel has reached career best 22nd position with a jump of 12 places. Ravichandran Ashwin has dropped one place to fifth. Jasprit Bumrah is at third position.
ICC Test Batting Rankings: Rohit Sharma’s worst ranking since December 2018
Rohit was in the top-10 between February 27, 2021 and February 21, 2023. Rohit Sharma (Source X) ICC has recently released new batting rankings, in which many changes have been seen. There has been a tremendous decline in the ranking of Indian captain Rohit Sharma. Before the New Zealand series, the T20 World Cup-winning captain was ranked 15th in the ICC Men’s Test batting rankings. But after a very poor performance in three out of four innings of the ongoing Test series, he dropped nine places to 24th. This is the lowest ranking of Rohit Sharma in the last 6 years. After Rohit’s innings of 63* and 5 runs against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in December 2018, he had reached 44th position. And after scoring a few centuries against South Africa in October 2019, he made a tremendous improvement in his ranking, reaching 17th position. Not only this, Rohit was in the top-10 between February 27, 2021 and February 21, 2023. He achieved an all-time high rating of 813, which came in September 2021. This was a time when he was the fifth best Test batsman in the world. In the ongoing Test batting rankings, his teammates Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant have also dropped six and five places to reach 14th and 11th position respectively. Kagiso Rabada overtook Jasprit Bumrah On the other hand, if we talk about bowling rankings, South African pacer Kagiso Rabada has snatched the first place from India’s star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah. He has now reached the top in the men’s test bowling rankings. Rabada is performing brilliantly against Bangladesh. He recently took nine wickets in the first Test of the series. Pakistan’s Noman Ali has also shown his talent in the Test bowling rankings. After his brilliant performance in two test matches against England, he has reached the top-10.
ICC Test Rankings: Kagiso Rabada became number-1 Test bowler by defeating Bumrah, Ashwin-Jadeja also suffered loss
Kagiso Rabada topped the Test bowling rankings with 860 rating points. Kagiso Rabada & Jasprit Bumrah (Photo Source: ICC Test Rankings: Kagiso Rabada has become the number-1 bowler in the ICC Men’s Test bowling rankings, overtaking Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah. Rabada had shown a brilliant performance in the first match of the ongoing Test series against Bangladesh, for which he has been rewarded. Rabada took three wickets in the first innings and 6 wickets in the second innings. Kagiso Rabada also took his 300th Test wicket during the first Test against Bangladesh. He is the third fastest South African bowler (11817 balls) to achieve this feat. Kagiso Rabada reached first place with 860 rating points. Kagiso Rabada reached the first position in the ICC Test bowlers’ rankings for the first time in 2018. He remained at number-1 position till February 2019. The thing to note is that Rabada has been continuously in the top-10 in the rankings recently. After taking 9 wickets against Bangladesh, he left behind Jasprit Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood and Ashwin and secured the first position with 860 rating points. Josh Hazlewood (847) is at second place, Bumrah (846) is at third place and Ashwin (831) is at fourth place. Pakistani spinner Noman Ali reached 9th place On the other hand, Pakistan’s spin bowlers Noman Ali and Sajid Khan have also benefited, who recently performed brilliantly in the Test series against England. Noman Ali took 11 and 9 wickets in two matches, Sajid took 9 and 10 wickets in two matches. Noman Ali achieved a career-high ranking of 9th. While Sajid has jumped 12 places to reach 38th position. ICC Men’s Latest Test Bowling Rankings Kagiso Rabada (South Africa) – 860 rating Josh Hazlewood (Australia) – 847 rating Jasprit Bumrah (India) – 846 rating R Ashwin (India) – 831 rating Pat Cummins (Australia) – 820 rating Nathan Lyon (Australia) – 801 rating Prabhat Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) – 801 rating Ravindra Jadeja (India) – 776 rating Noman Ali (Pakistan) – 759 rating Matt Henry (New Zealand)- 743 rating Rachin Ravindra and Saud Shakeel took a long jump England’s legendary batsman Joe Root is still at first place in the ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings. Kiwi batsman Rachin Ravindra played brilliantly in the first two test matches against India. He has jumped 8 places to 10th position. At the same time, Saud Shakeel of Pakistan made a huge jump of 20 places and has reached 7th position. ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings Joe Root (England) – 903 rating Kane Williamson (New Zealand) – 813 rating Yashasvi Jaiswal (India) – 790 rating Harry Brook (England) – 778 ratings Steve Smith (Australia)- 757 rating Usman Khawaja (Australia) – 728 rating Saud Shakeel (Pakistan) – 724 rating Marnus LaBution (Australia) – 720 rating Kamindu Mendis (Sri Lanka) – 716 rating Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)- 711 rating
ICC Women’s Ranking: Deepti Sharma and Sophie Devine reach career best rankings
Deepti Sharma and Sophie Devine Indian women’s team’s star all-rounder Deepti Sharma and New Zealand captain Sophie Devine have achieved career best ranks in the ICC Women’s ODI Rankings. Both the players have performed brilliantly in the ongoing ICC Women’s Championship series, which has benefited them in the ODI rankings. Deepti Sharma took three wickets in the first two matches, which has lifted her to second place in the bowling rankings. On the other hand, Sophie Devine played a tremendous inning of 79 runs in the second match, due to which she has reached the best batting ranking of 8th position in her career. Deepti’s dominance continues in the ranking of all-rounders also. He scored 41 runs and one wicket in the first match and played an important role in India’s victory. She has now moved up one place to fourth place. Whereas Devine has moved from 9th to 7th in the rankings of all-rounders after taking three wickets in the second match. Devine has gained 9 places in the bowling rankings and is now at 30th position. Amelia Kar, who was out of the series, improved her ranking. New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr is ranked 11th and 13th in the batting and bowling rankings respectively. He scored unbeaten 25 runs in the first match against India, apart from this he also took four wickets. After this she was out of the entire series due to injury. Along with this, due to good performance in the series, there has been improvement in the batting ranking of many batsmen. This includes New Zealand’s Suzie Bates (up two places to 15th), Maddy Green (up seven places to 18th) and Brooke Halliday (up three places to 36th), while Jemimah Rodrigues (up three places to 30th) and Shafali Verma (up two places) Has reached 54th position. Lee Tuhuhu has moved up three places to 12th in the bowling rankings. The players who performed well in the five-match series between Zimbabwe and the United States in Harare have gained in the rankings. The home team won the series 3-2. Zimbabwe batsman Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano has achieved a career-best 21st position after scoring 28, 33 and 60 in the last three matches of the series. Modest Mupachikwa (up nine places to 46th) and Ashley Ndiraya (up 28 places to 47th) are the other Zimbabweans to gain in the batting rankings, while Josephine Nkomo (up 13 places to 32nd) has moved up the bowling rankings. For the USA, Disha Dhingra (up 22 places to 55th) and Sindhu Sriharsh (up 42 places to 57th) have moved up in the batting rankings and Aditya Chudasama (up 12 places to 58th) has moved up in the bowling rankings.
ICC Test Rankings: Rishabh Pant made a big jump in the rankings, left Kohli behind, Hitman-Gill suffered loss
Rishabh Pant has moved to sixth position in the rankings, leaving behind Virat Kohli. Rishabh Pant (Photo Source: Getty Images) Under the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 cycle, Test series are currently being played between India and New Zealand, South Africa and Bangladesh, Pakistan and England. India had to face defeat by 8 wickets against New Zealand in the first test match of the series. On the other hand, Pakistan defeated England by 152 runs in the second test, after which the series is tied at 1-1. Meanwhile, ICC has released the latest Test rankings. Indian young batsman Rishabh Pant has seen a big rise in his Test batting ranking. He has left Virat Kohli behind and has come to sixth position. At the same time, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill have suffered huge losses. Rishabh Pant reached sixth position with 745 rating. England player Joe Root is at first place in the ICC Test batting rankings with 917 rating points. New Zealand player Kane Williamson is not part of the series against India due to injury. He is at second position with 821 rating points. England player Harry Brook is in third place with 803 rating points. Whereas, Yashasvi Jaiswal (780) is at fourth place and Steve Smith (757) is at fifth place. Rishabh Pant played a brilliant inning of 99 runs in the second innings of the first Test against New Zealand. After this inning, he has jumped three places from 9th to 6th in the rankings with a rating of 745. At the same time, Virat Kohli has slipped one place to 8th position with 720 rating points. Salman Ali Aga also benefited England player Ben Duckett also got an increase in the ranking. He has jumped three places to reach 11th position with 706 rating points. Whereas Salman Ali Aga has jumped 8 places and is at 14th position with 684 rating points. Rohit and Gill suffered loss Rohit Sharma scored 2 and 52 runs in the first test against New Zealand. He has slipped two places to joint 15th position with 683 rating points. At the same time, Shubman Gill who could not play the first test due to injury. He has lost four places and is joint 19th with 677 rating points. Rachin Ravindra jumped 36 places Rachin Ravindra scored 134 and 39 runs in the first test against India. He has made a huge jump of 36 places and reached 18th position with 681 rating points. This is also his best ranking till date. ICC latest test batting ranking- 1. Joe Root (England) – 917 rating points 2. Kane Williamson (New Zealand) – 821 rating points 3. Harry Brook (England) – 803 rating points 4. Yashasvi Jaiswal (India) – 780 rating points 5. Steve Smith (Australia) – 757 rating points 6. Rishabh Pant (India) – 745 rating points 7. Usman Khawaja (Australia) – 728 rating points 8. Virat Kohli (India) – 720 rating points 9. Marnus Labuschagne (Australia) – 720 rating points 10. Kamindu Mendis (Sri Lanka) – 716 rating points
Joe Root reaches new heights in latest ICC Test batting rankings, achieves career best ranking
The route has reached 932 rating points. Joe Root (Photo Source: Former England captain and veteran batsman Joe Root has achieved new heights in the category of batsmen in the latest ICC Test rankings. The inning of 262 runs played in the first Test match against Pakistan in Multan has been of great benefit to the experienced batsman. Root currently has 932 rating points and is currently the number 1 Test batsman in the world. Apart from this, he has become the fourth player from England to achieve the all-time best ranking in Tests. This is also his career best ranking. Before Root, Len Hooton (945), Jack Hobbs 942 and Peter May (941) had achieved the best ranking in the batsmen’s category for England. After scoring two centuries in the home Test match against Sri Lanka before Pakistan, he had achieved 923 rating points, his career best ranking, but later slipped to 899 points, but in the first Test against Pakistan in Multan. After his brilliant innings in the match and the record partnership of 454 runs with Harry Brook for the fourth wicket, he has been progressing continuously. Apart from Joe Root, Ben Duckett has gained five points in the batsmen’s category for England in the latest rankings. He has currently reached the 14th position with 685 rating points, while after scoring a triple century, Harry Brook has reached the third position with a jump of 10 points. Former New Zealand captain Kane Williamson is at second place with 829 rating points. Pakistani batsmen also benefited in ranking In the latest rankings, the ranking of three players who scored centuries for Pakistan in the first Test match played in Multan has also improved. Salman Ali Aga has reached career best 22nd ranking, while Shan Masood has reached 51st position with a jump of 12 points. Besides, Abdullah Shafiq has also reached 39th position.
ICC T20I Rankings: Arshdeep takes a huge leap and reaches top 10 for the first time, while Hardik is in top 3 among all-rounders.
Arshdeep has achieved career best ranking in T20. Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya (Image Credit- Twitter Indian fast bowler Arshdeep Singh has got a big advantage in the latest ICC T20 rankings. Let us tell you that by achieving career best ranking, he has taken a huge jump of 8 points and reached 8th position in the category of bowlers in T20 format. Arshdeep Singh has been rewarded for his brilliant performance in the first T20 match against Bangladesh in Gwalior. He has reached number 8 with 642 rating points in the latest ICC T20 rankings released on October 8, 2024. On the other hand, there has been no change in the top 3 in the bowlers’ category. England’s legendary spinner Adil Rashid is at number one with 721 rating points. So West Indies’ Akil Hussain is at second place with 685 rating points and Afghanistan’s all-rounder Rashid Khan is at third place with 668 rating points. Hardik Pandya reached top 3 On the other hand, in the latest T20 rankings released, Hardik Pandya has got a big advantage in the all-rounder category. Pandya has reached third place with a jump of three places. Hardik currently has 216 rating points. Pandya had performed amazingly in the first T20 match against Bangladesh. Along with taking 1 wicket, Hardik played a stormy inning of 39* runs in 16 balls with the help of 5 fours and 2 sixes. Apart from this, in the all-rounder category, England’s Liam Livingstone is at first place with 253 rating points. Whereas Deependra Singh Ari of Nepal has reached second place with 235 rating points. He has gained 4 places in the latest ranking. Arshdeep and Hardik would like to perform well in Delhi T20 match So, both Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya will be seen playing in the second T20 match against Bangladesh to be held in Delhi on 9th October. Both will be eyeing to strengthen their respective positions in the ICC rankings by performing brilliantly in this T20 match.
Pakistan’s Sadia Iqbal made headlines in ICC Women’s T20 Rankings, this happened for the first time
She has reached second place in the category of bowlers. Sadia Iqbal (Image Credit- Twitter X) In the latest ICC rankings released today, Thursday, October 8, Pakistan’s spin bowler Sadia Iqbal has created history. Let us tell you that she has now become the first player in the country who has secured second position in the category of bowlers in T20 format. This is Iqbal’s career best ranking in T20. Also, she is the first woman bowler from Pakistan to achieve 754 rating points. Iqbal is just 8 points behind England’s Sophie Aselton (762) at number one. Apart from Iqbal in the top 10, Nashra Sandhu from Pakistan has reached 8th position with a jump of four places. Sarah Glenn of England women’s cricket team is at third position with 746 rating points. Apart from this, Sadia Iqbal became only the second Pakistani player to reach the top in the women’s rankings. Earlier, former Pakistani captain Sana Mir had reached the top in the ODI bowling rankings in 2018-2019. Also, after the England and South Africa match in the ongoing ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, a lot of changes have been seen in the rankings. After this match, South African captain Laura Bulfart has jumped two places and is at third position in the batsmen’s category in T20 with 746 rating points. Also, South Africa’s Tazmin Britts has got the benefit of playing an inning of 57 runs against West Indies and she has reached sixth position with a jump of 1 place. ICC Cricket Rankings T20 Format batting: 1. Beth Mooney (761), 2. Tahila McGrath (748), 3. Laura Bulfart (746) bowling: 1. Sophie Aselton (770), 2. Kate Cross (686), 3. Megan Schutt (682) allrounder: 1. Marijan Kapp (404), 2. Haley Matthews (394), 3. Nat Seaver Brunt (388) (Note: Till October 8, 2024)
ICC Test Rankings: Jasprit Bumrah becomes number one bowler, Virat Kohli returns to top 10
Team India (Image Credit- Twitter X) ICC has released the latest rankings of Test players on Wednesday after the end of India vs Bangladesh Test series. India’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has again become the number one Test bowler. He is at number one with 870 rating points. He has left behind veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who is at second place with 869 ratings. India’s star cricketer Virat Kohli has returned to the top-10. Virat Kohli has jumped six places to reach sixth position in the list of batsmen. Virat currently has 724 rating points. Young opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal has also benefited after this Test series. He has gained two places. Yashasvi is at third place with 792 rating points. Jasprit Bumrah performed brilliantly in India vs Bangladesh series Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah took 11 wickets in the two-match Test series played between India and Bangladesh. Now they have got the benefit of this. He reached the top by jumping one place. This is the second time that Bumrah has reached the top of the Test rankings. Earlier in February this year, the fast bowler had secured the first position after the series against England. Then he had gained three places. Talking about others, Bangladesh’s Mehdi Hasan (up four places to 18th) and experienced spinner Shakib Al Hasan has moved up five places to 28th. Sri Lankan spinner Prabhat Jayasuriya (801) achieved the highest rating of his career. He is jointly at number nine. He performed well in the Test series against New Zealand. Jayasuriya won the Player of the Series award by taking 18 wickets in that series. India’s star cricketer Virat Kohli has returned to the top-10 in the list of batsmen. He scored 47 runs in the first innings of Kanpur Test and 27 not out in the second innings. He was out of the top-10 after his poor performance in the Chennai Test. England’s legendary batsman Joe Root (899) is at number one in the ranking of batsmen. New Zealand’s Kane Williamson (820) is at the position.
