Axar Patel vaults into top 10 ODI rankings for bowlers
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Indian spinners Axar Patel and Amit Mishra have made impressive gains in the latest ICC ODI Player Rankings after they achieved career-high rankings following their side’s 3-2 series victory over New Zealand.
Left-arm spinner Patel has broken into the top 10 for the first time in his career after rising five places to ninth, while wrist spinner Mishra has vaulted 25 places to enter the top 20 for the first time to share 12th position with South Africa’s Dale Steyn.
Patel grabbed four wickets in the series, but Mishra, who was adjudged the player of the series, snapped up 15 wickets.
While breaking into the top 10, Patel has also become India’s highest-ranked bowler after Ravichandran Ashwin has slipped three places to 16th after missing the just-concluded series, while Mishra is now his side’s second highest-ranked bowler.
India’s fast bowler Umesh Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah have also made upward movements following the series, which concluded on Saturday.
Yadav took eight wickets in the series which has lifted him from 42nd to 35th position, while Bumrah has been rewarded for his six wickets in four matches with a rise of 29 places that has put him in a career-best 57th position.
Trent Boult of New Zealand, who took six wickets in four matches, leads the field, while Sunil Narine of the West Indies is second and South Africa’s Imran Tahir is third.
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The good news for New Zealand are the movements of its fast bowler Tim Southee and opener Tom Latham.
Southee was New Zealand’s leading wicket-taker with seven wickets which have helped him rise three places to 31st, while Latham was the pick of his side’s batsmen with 244 runs. This is reflected in the latest rankings in which the left-hander has jumped 32 places to a career-high 39th position.
Leading batsmen losing ground include Martin Guptill in eighth (down by two places), Rohit Sharma in ninth (down by two places), Ross Taylor in 15th (down by one place) and Ajinkya Rahane in 30th (down by two places).
India’s Virat Kohli finished as the lead run-getter with 358 runs at an average of just under 120, and although he has remained behind AB de Villiers in second place, the former Under-19 player who led India to victory in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2008 in Malaysia has reduced the South African’s lead from 48 points to just 13 points.
There is no change in the top five of the all-rounders’ list, which is headed by Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, fourth-ranked India has reduced the pre-series three-point gap with third-ranked New Zealand to just one point. Had India won the series 4-1, it would have swapped places with New Zealand.
New Zealand will now travel to Australia in December for a three-ODI series, while India’s next ODI assignment is a three-match series against England in January 2017.
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ICC ODI Team Rankings (as on 30 October, after India-New Zealand series)
Rank Team Points
- Australia 118
- South Africa 116
- New Zealand 112 (-1)
- India 111 (+1)
- England 107
- Sri Lanka 101
- Bangladesh 95
- Pakistan 89
- West Indies 88
- Afghanistan 52
- Zimbabwe 46
- Ireland 42
ICC ODI Player Rankings (as on 30 October, after India-New Zealand series)
Batsmen (top 10)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Highest Rating
1 ( – ) AB de Villiers SA 861 53.63 902 v NZ at Auckland 2015
2 ( – ) Virat Kohli Ind 848 52.93 886 v Ban at Fatullah 2014
3 ( – ) David Warner Aus 786! 41.00 786 v SA at Cape Town 2016
4 ( – ) Quinton de Kock SA 779 43.84 799 v Aus at Centurion 2016
5 ( – ) Kane Williamson NZ 770 46.71 798 v SA at Centurion 2015
6 (+2) Hashim Amla SA 748 51.33 901 v Eng at Trent Bridge 2012
7 (+2) Joe Root Eng 747 45.71 776 v Pak at Trent Bridge 2016
8 (-2) Martin Guptill NZ 729 42.35 751 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
9 (-2) Rohit Sharma Ind 728 41.37 761 v Aus at Sydney 2016
10 (+1) Faf du Plessis SA 721 40.90 732 v Aus at Port Elizabeth 2016
Other selected rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Highest Rating
13 ( – ) MS Dhoni Ind 704 50.89 836 v Aus at Delhi 2009
15 (-1) Ross Taylor NZ 682 43.15 743 v Zim at Harare 2015
30 (-2) Ajinkya Rahane Ind 599 32.88 630 v Aus at Melbourne 2016
39 (+32) Tom Latham NZ 569! 33.17 569 v Ind at Visakhapatnam 2016
55 (-6) Ambati Rayudu Ind 528* 50.23 541 v Zim at Harare 2016
57 (-6) Corey Anderson NZ 522* 29.91 604 v Ind at Hamilton 2014
Bowlers (top 10)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Highest Rating
1 ( – ) Trent Boult NZ 735 23.89 4.83 766 v Ind at Delhi 2016
2 ( – ) Sunil Narine WI 725 26.46 4.12 791 v SL at Jamaica 2013
3 ( – ) Imran Tahir SA 712 23.44 4.65 735 v SL at Sydney 2015
4 ( – ) Mitchell Starc Aus 690 19.61 4.78 783 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
5 ( – ) Matt Henry NZ 661* 22.92 5.43 675 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
6 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 660 27.93 4.32 717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
7 ( – ) Adil Rashid Eng 655! 35.17 5.59 655 v Ban at Chittagong 2016
8 ( – ) Kagiso Rabada SA 628* 25.11 5.24 646 v Aus at Johannesburg 2016
9 (+5) Akshar Patel Ind 624*! 30.20 4.38 624 v NZ at Visakhapatnam 2016
10 (-1) M. Mortaza Ban 623 30.07 4.70 653 v Zim at Mirpur 2009
Other selected rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Highest Rating
12 (+25) Amit Mishra Ind 618! 23.60 618 v NZ at Visakhapatnam 2016
35 (+7) Umesh Yadav Ind 519 33.35 600 v Ban at Melbourne 2015
57 (+29) Jasprit Bumrah Ind 451*! 14.64 451 v NZ at Visakhapatnam 2016
All-rounders (top five)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Highest Rating
1 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 391 453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
2 ( – ) Angelo Mathews SL 352 427 v Eng at Colombo (RPS) 2014
3 ( – ) Mohammad Nabi Afg 332 335 v Ban at Mirpur 2016
4 ( – ) James Faulkner Aus 315 361 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
5 ( – ) Mitchell Marsh Aus 299*/* 302 v WI at Barbados 2016
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