ICC Rankings: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma in Top 3, Babar Azam holds No 1

ICC Rankings: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma in Top 3 as Pakistan’s Babar Azam continues to top ODI rankings – India captain Virat Kohli and vice-captain Rohit Sharma continue to be India’s best batsmen in ODIs, occupying the 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Pakistan captain Babar Azam kept his No 1 ranking in July’s updated ICC ODI rankings. England all-rounder Chris Woakes has reached a career-best third position among bowlers.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who are currently on a 20-day break after the ICC WTC Final, haven’t played ODI cricket since the England series. The next ODI will be after the ICC T20 World Cup. With Babar Azam and others having plenty of bilateral series, they are likely to gain additional ranking points and topple the Indian duo.

ICC Rankings: Virat Kohli & Rohit Sharma are now concentrating on the five-match Test series against England, starting August 4. It will be followed by IPL 2021 Phase 2 and the ICC T20 World Cup.

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Chris Woakes, who grabbed six wickets in two matches including a haul of four for 18 in the first ODI, has advanced four slots in the list led by New Zealand’s Trent Boult with Bangladesh’s Mehidy Hasan Miraz in second place. Woakes’s previous best was fourth position attained in September last year. He is also up one place to third among all-rounders after overtaking team-mate, Ben Stokes.

ICC Rankings: Other England fast bowlers David Willey and Tom Curran too, have gained in the latest men’s weekly rankings update. Willey has moved up 13 places to 37^th position after a Player of the Series effort of nine wickets that included a haul of four for 64 in the second match, while Tom Curran’s four wickets in two matches see him advance 20 places to 68^th position.

England’s 2-0 series win, which helped them to the top of the CWC Super League Standings powered by MRF Tyres, also sees England’s Test captain Joe Root move up two places to 13^th position with a series-topping aggregate of 147 runs and captain Eoin Morgan inching up from 26^th to 25^th.

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ICC Rankings: For Sri Lanka, captain Kusal Perera is up one place to 41^st after scoring 82 runs in the series while Dhananjaya de Silva has gained 10 slots to reach 74^thposition. Dasun Shanaka and Wanindu Hasaranga are in joint-98^th position after advancing 13 and 12 places, respectively.

ICC T20 Rankings: In the ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings, South Africa’s Quinton de Kock has advanced nine places to 13^th after aggregating 255 runs in their five-match series against the West Indies. Aiden Markram is up 23 places to 19^th position while George Linde (up 30 places to 43^rd) and Lungi Ngidi (up 25 places to 56th) are among the bowlers to gain after their 3-2 win.

🔺 After entering the top 10 last week, @windiescricket opener Evin Lewis moves up a spot on the @MRFWorldwide ICC Men’s T20I Batting Rankings. pic.twitter.com/TugCjFugmb

— ICC (@ICC) July 7, 2021

ICC Rankings: For the West Indies, Evin Lewis is up one place to ninth position after finishing with 178 runs. Nicholas Pooran has gained 20 places to reach 87^th position while Shimron Hetmyer is up 15 places to 99^th.

All-rounder Dwayne Bravo has moved from 95^th to 44th among bowlers after finishing with 10 wickets in the series while Obed McKoy has moved up 65 places to 53rd with nine wickets.

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