ICC Cricket Rankings: Virat Kohli remains the No.1 batsman

Dixit Bhargav | 08/10/2018
ICC Cricket Rankings

ICC Cricket Rankings: ICC released the latest cricket rankings after the culmination of Zimbabwe’s tour of South Africa.

ICC (International Cricket Council) have released the latest edition of the ODI rankings after South Africa whitewashed Zimbabwe 3-0 at Paarl. Despite demolishing the opposition, South Africa remained at No. 4 in the ODI rankings (below New Zealand, India and England).

Talking of England, they will now have to defeat Sri Lanka in the upcoming ODI series (starts from October 10) in a bid to remain at No. 1 for India have a chance to snatch the top spot during their series against West Indies.

If both England and India win all their matches in the respective series, England will finish at 128 and India at 123 points. India will become the No. 1 ranked team if India whitewash West Indies and Sri Lanka beat England 3-2. If India wins the series 4-1 and England loses with the same margin, both teams will be equal on 122 points.

Talking about the batsmen, Virat Kohli has retained his No. 1 spot. The bottom half of the Top 10 batsmen’s list saw some minor changes with Kane Williamson and Jonny Bairstow rising up by a spot to No. 8 and 10 respectively. With South Africa’s Quinton de Kock missing the series against Zimbabwe, he has fallen by a spot to No. 9.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has had a below par 2018, has been successful enough to retain his No. 18 spot in the ODI rankings.

With Jasprit Bumrah still at No. 1, the bottom half of the Top 10 Bowlers’ list also saw some changes. South African duo of Kagiso Rabada (five wickets in two matches at an average of 13.20, an economy rate of 3.66 and a strike rate of 21.6) and Imran Tahir (10 wickets in three matches at an average of 9.10, an economy rate of 4.33 and a strike rate of 12.6) jumped three places each to reach No. 6 and 7 respectively.

Each one of Adil Rashid, Hasan Ali and Mujeeb-ur-Rehman stepped down by a couple of places to No. 8, 9 and 10 respectively.

Read some of the recent Twitter reactions on the ICC rankings below:

 

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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