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Pakistan’s players have shone in the latest ICC ODI rankings
Haris Rauf has achieved a career-best ranking in ODIs
New Delhi. Pakistan defeated Afghanistan by a huge margin of 142 runs despite scoring 201 runs in the first match of the three ODI series. Pakistan’s win has helped the team’s players in the latest ODI rankings. Team opener Imam-ul-Haq and fast bowler Haris Rauf shone in this match. Haris took 5 wickets while Imam-ul-Haq scored a half-century. Both these players have benefited from this in the recent ODI rankings.
Imam-ul-Haq Imam-ul-Haq has moved up one place to third in the latest ICC ODI rankings for batsmen. Babar Azam was dismissed for a wicket in the first ODI against Afghanistan. Despite this, he is the number-1 ODI batsman. It has 880 rating points. Fakhar Zaman has certainly lost two places and has come down to the 5th position.
India’s Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli are among the top-10 batsmen. Gill moves up one place to fourth and Virat to ninth.
Australia’s Josh Hazlewood is still at the top spot in the ODI bowlers’ rankings and his partner Mitchell Starc is at the second spot. Afghanistan spinner Mujeeb ur Rehman, who took three wickets in the first ODI against Pakistan, has moved up three places to third place. Haris Rauf took 5 wickets in the first ODI against Afghanistan. This has paid off and he has moved up 7 places to 36th in the ODI bowlers’ rankings with a career-best rating point. Two Indian bowlers Mohammad Siraj and Kuldeep Yadav are included in the top-10.
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Tags: Babar Azam, Haris Rauf, ICC ODI Rankings, Shubman Gill
First published: August 23, 2023, 14:44 IST