Indian Stars Jump Up In ICC T20I Rankings: Multiple Indian Cricket Team starts have made massive jumps in the ICC T210I player rankings following the recent 3-1 series win over India.
The recent India vs South Africa T20I series finished in a fine 3-1 win for the Men in Blue. The Indians took the series’ first, third, and fourth matches, scoring over 200 runs in each of their victories.
The series saw several stars rise to the occasion for the national team and be rewarded by hiking up the official player rankings.
Indian Stars Jump Up In ICC T20I Rankings
The first one of these would be Hardik Pandya. The Mumbai Indians captain has now climbed to the top of the all-rounder rankings in the ICC rankings. Following the series win against the Proteas, he leapfrogged England’s Liam Livingstone and Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee to reach the top spot with 244 rating points.
Pandya did not have the best of the series against South Africa initially. In the first two matches, he did not take any wickets. While he did not score much in the first match, he did in the second. But his slow innings played a big role in India losing that game.
He had a mediocre outing in the third T20I as well, scoring 18 runs and taking just a wicket, but the star all-rounder showed his mettle. While he did not get to bat in that match, he bowled three overs, just gave up eight runs, and took a wicket.
With Livingstone and Dipendra Airee not playing T20 cricket at the moment, this was enough to push Pandya to the top of the rankings. Although they might have received a massive push from being the Player of the Series in T20Is against Bangladesh the month before.
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But that is not all, as India’s explosive batting has seen a few batters jump up the rankings, as Player of the Series Tilak Varma also jumped up the batter’s ranks. In the first two matches of the series, he scored 33 and 20 runs, respectively, while in the final two matches of the series, he scored centuries, becoming only the fifth player to score consecutive tons in T20Is.
All this was enough for him to jump 93 ranks to now sit at third in the batter’s ranking in T20Is with 806 points, behind Travis Head and Phil Salt at No. 1 and 2. Tilak Varma is also the highest-ranked Indian in the format, above skipper Suyakumar Yadav at fourth and Yashasvi Jaiswal at eighth. Sanju Samson, who also scored two tons in this series, jumped 22 ranks to now sit at 17th.
As for bowlers, Arshdeep Singh jumped three rankings to enter the top 10 in ninth, right behind Ravi Bishnooi in eighth.
The Indian Cricket Team will now shift their focus from T20Is to Test cricket as the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia Down Under is about to commence, with the first match starting on November 22 in Perth.
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