Virat Kohli surpasses Babar Azam in ICC men’s ODI rankings:Rohit Sharma retains the top spot, Tilak Varma drops down two places in T20I format

Virat Kohli has jumped up in the ICC men’s ODI rankings as per the latest update from the International Cricket Council. Notably, India’s star cricketer has achieved the feat despite scoring just 74 runs in the ODI series vs Australia Down Under and departing for two ducks in two respective one-day games. Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma has retained his spot as the No. 1 ODI batter after he became the oldest batter to crown the best one-day batter title at the age of 38 years and 182 days. In addition to it, the top five rankings have also included another Indian in the list. Virat Kohli replaces Babar Azam Notably, Virat Kohli has replaced Babar Azam to occupy the fifth place in the ICC men’s ODI rankings. Meanwhile, the Pakistan star cricketer has not scored a single century in the last four one-day games against South Africa and Sri Lanka, respectively. That’s why Babar has dropped down to the 7th ranking with 709 rating points. Meanwhile, Kohli has come up to the 5th spot with 725 rating points. Salman and Abrar reach career-best ranking Pakistan’s Salman Agha and spinner Abrar Ahmed achieved career-best ranks in ODIs. Both benefited from their excellent performance in home ODIs against South Africa and Sri Lanka. Salman scored an unbeaten 105 runs off 87 balls in the first ODI against Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi. He had scored 69 and an unbeaten 5 runs against South Africa. He has moved up 14 places in the rankings to reach 16th position in the list of batters. Shubman Gill gains 8 places in T20I batters In the T20 Batters rankings, apart from Tilak Varma, Shubman Gill gained 8 ranks. He has moved up to the 22nd position. Gill played innings of 46 and an unbeaten 29 runs against Australia. New Zealand’s Tim Robinson has moved up to the 23rd position with a gain of 18 places. West Indies’ Rovman Powell gained 4 places. He has moved up to the 30th position. Jacob Duffy gains 8 places in the T20I bowlers’ rankings New Zealand’s Jacob Duffy has moved up 6 places. He is in third place. Mitchell Santner has moved up 5 places to 23rd position. West Indies’ Roston Chase is at number 32. Abrar Ahmed achieved figures of 3/53 and 4/27 respectively against South Africa. This has helped him climb 17 places in the bowlers’ rankings to 20th position. He is now just four places away from Pakistan’s top ODI bowler, Shaheen Shah Afridi (16th position). England rises to no. 2 in Test team rankings The English team has risen to number 2 in the Test team rankings. Ben Stokes captained the English team and surpassed the World Champion South Africa. The Australian team is number 1 on this list. The Kangaroos have 124 rating points. Meanwhile, England is in second place with 112 points and South Africa is in third with 111 points. India is in fourth place with 108 points.