New Delhi: Team India’s rising star Vaibhav Suryavanshi has made a big jump in the ICC Men’s T20I Batting Rankings after a stellar start to his international career. During India’s 3-0 T20I series win against Zimbabwe in Harare, the 15-year-old scored 151 runs at an average of 50.33 and was named the Player of the Series. Suryavanshi’s impressive performance helped him climb 230 places to a career-best 48th in the T20I batsmen’s list, released by the ICC on Wednesday.
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Suryavanshi currently has 536 rating points and is behind his India teammate Ishan Kishan, who currently leads the T20I Batting Rankings. Kishan reached a career-best rating of 916 points after scoring 81 in the second match against Zimbabwe, the third-highest ever by a T20I batsman. He finished the series with 910 points, but is well ahead of second-placed Sahibzada Farhan (848 points). Kishan’s career-best rating is also higher than the ratings of other Indian stars Suryakumar Yadav (912) and Virat Kohli (909).
According to the ICC, Abhishek Sharma holds the record for the highest T20I batting rating of all time with 931 points, followed by England’s Dawid Malan (919 points) and Kishan (916 points). Tilak Varma also moved up two places to sixth, while Shreyas Iyer climbed seven places to 24th in the T20I batsmen’s rankings. Ravi Bishnoi made the biggest jump in the bowling rankings; he rose 31 places to 41st after taking three wickets in the Zimbabwe series. The positions of Zimbabwean players also changed in the rankings. Ryan Burl moved up six places to joint 85th in the T20I batsmen’s rankings. Fast bowler Blessing Muzarabani moved up 10 places to 26th in the T20I bowlers’ rankings.
In the ODI rankings, Shubman Gill regained the No. 1 spot among batsmen after New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell missed the recent series against the West Indies. Mitchell had been at the top since January, according to the ICC. Namibian spinner Bernard Scholtz also made a significant gain, moving up five places to No. 7 in the ODI bowlers’ rankings following his performance in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League2 tri-series in Utrecht.
West Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves also made significant gains in the Test rankings after a stellar performance against Pakistan in Trinidad. He climbed 21 places to 48th among Test bowlers and eight places to ninth among all-rounders after taking wickets in five consecutive maiden overs. His West Indies teammate Jayden Seales moved up five places to 24th among Test bowlers, while Pakistan’s Mohammad Abbas climbed nine places to 17th. Babar Azam also moved up four places to 15th among Test batsmen after scoring his 32nd Test half-century in the second innings.