India’s rising star Surya Kumar Yadav continues his leap to the top of the ICC T20 batting average rankings, passing Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan to become the number one T20 batsman in the latest rankings.
Pakistani veteran Mohammad made an impressive start to the Men’s ICC T20 World Cup, and Yadav overtook Rizwan. The 32-year-old has set consecutive records for half a century against the Netherlands and South Africa.
India’s Dynamo has been a revelation since making his debut in his T20I internationally last March, and his recent performance taking the top spot from Rizwan has been one of his best in recent times. It’s a tribute to the form.
Yadav says he has already scored eight and a half centuries in T20I this year and his two most recent strikes in Australia mean more can come from a right-arm attackis shown. His No. 4 position for India so far has scored 134 runs in three innings and is in good form at downs under and in style at Perth against the Proteas on Sunday with 68 runs being a clear highlight.
Yadav isn’t the only batsman heading into the T20 World Championship after a strong start. South African lefty girlfriend Rilee Rossouw and New Zealand dasher Glenn Phillips have also made notable moves within the top ten. The 33-year-old against Sydney in his Century against Bangladesh took him up 17 places in his latest T20I batting rankings to his eighth overall.
Phillips, who scored his 104 points against Sri Lanka at the SCG, moved up five spots to his seventh on the current batsmen list, while teammate Devon Conway (third) beat him. became the only New Zealander before
Rossouw had a stellar century against Bangladesh in Sydney, where the 33-year-old moved up 17 places to his 8th overall in his latest T20I hitters rankings.
England’s Sam Curran moved up two places to sixth overall after an impressive start to the T20 World Cup. South Africa’s Anrich Nolce moved up 11 places in the standings to eighth.
There has been little movement in the top 10 of his latest T20I All-rounder rankings, with Bangladeshi skipper Shakib his Al Hasan maintaining a narrow lead at the top of his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Nabi.
Namibian batsman J.J. Sumit swapped positions with Zimbabwean veteran Sikandar Raza for fifth and for sixth, while Australian duo Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell both finished in the top ten.
