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ICC Men's Players Rankings: Suryakumar Yadav drops to fourth spot, Mohammad Rizwan becomes top batter in T20Is
India captain Rohit Sharma has gained four slots to reach 13th position after scoring 72 against Sri Lanka in their Super Fours match
India's in-form T20I batter Suryakumar Yadav has dropped one spot to fourth place in the latest ICC Men's T20I Players Rankings issued on Wednesday. India captain Rohit Sharma has gained four slots to reach 13th position after scoring 72 against Sri Lanka in their Super Fours match while former captain Virat Kohli has gained four places and is 29th in the list after scoring 60 against Pakistan. Ravichandran Ashwin (up eight places to 50th) and Arshdeep Singh (up 28 places to 62nd) have also progressed.
Also, Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan has overtaken his opening partner and captain Babar Azam to seize the top position among batters in the ICC Men's T20I Player Rankings after the weekly update. Rizwan followed up his Player of the Match effort of 78 off 57 deliveries in an Asia Cup Group A match against Hong Kong with a crucial 71 off 51 against India in a Super Fours match in Dubai, to move from 796 rating points to a career-best 815 and claim the top position for the first time.
Rizwan is only the third Pakistan batter to be No. 1 in the T20I batting rankings after Babar, who has been at the top of the table for 1,155 days in all, and Misbah-ul-Haq, who was at the top for 313 days, from 20 April 2008 to 27 February 2009. Meanwhile, Mohammad Nawaz's match-winning 42 off 20 in the same match sees him move up 142 slots to 358th in the rankings.
Sri Lanka openers Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis have made notable progress after scoring half-centuries in a memorable win against India on Tuesday. Nissanka is up one place to eighth while Mendis has advanced 63 places to 41st position. Dasun Shanaka (up 11 places to 39th) and Bhanuka Rajapaksa (up 31 places to 68th) have also moved up the rankings for batters while off-spinner Maheesh Theekshana has progressed five places to eighth among bowlers.
Afghanistan opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz's Player of the Match effort of 84 off 45 balls that helped beat Sri Lanka in a group match, has helped him progress 14 places to 15th while Najibullah Zadran has moved up two places to 28th after scoring 43 against Bangladesh. Spinners Mujeeb ur Rehman (up three places to sixth) and Mohammad Nabi (up two places to 32nd) have also gained in the latest update. In the ICC Men's ODI Player Rankings updated after the second and third Australia versus Zimbabwe matches and first Australia versus New Zealand match, Australia's David Warner has moved up one place to sixth position among batters and New Zealand's Kane Williamson up one place to 10th.
