Varun Chakravarthy has consolidated his top spot in the ICC T20I bowling rankings with a career-best rating of 818. This is the result of a brilliant performance against South Africa. Arshdeep Singh has reached 16th position and batsman Tilak Verma has reached fourth position.
Lucknow: India’s mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy has further strengthened his top position in the ICC Men’s T20I bowler rankings. Reached a new career-high rating. According to the ICC website, the Indian bowler achieved his personal best rating of 818 points after taking two wickets for the third consecutive time in the ongoing 5-match home T20I series against South Africa. This right-arm leg-spinner has taken 6 wickets in the first three matches of the series. His stellar performance of 2/11 in four overs in the third T20I of India vs South Africa in Dharamsala played a key role in India’s impressive seven-wicket win. With 818 rating points, Chakraborty now has a huge lead of 119 points over second-placed New Zealand pacer Jacob Duffy (699). The 34-year-old has also made it into the all-time top 10 for highest bowling ratings in T20Is.
Improvement in ranking of Arshdeep Singh
This is good news at the right time for India, as there are less than two months left to defend the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup title won in West Indies last year. Chakraborty is expected to be a key player in India’s efforts to win the title for the second consecutive time in this shortest format. In more good news for India, left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh has moved up 4 places to 16th in the T20I bowling rankings after his ‘Player of the Match’ performance in the third match of the series against South Africa. At the same time, South African players have also benefited, with Marco Jansen jumping 14 places to 25th, Lungi Ngidi climbing 11 places to 44th, and Otniel Baartman moving out of the top 100 to 68th.
2 Indian cricketers in top 5 of ICC T20I rankings
India now have 2 batsmen in the top 5 of the ICC T20I rankings, with Tilak Verma moving up 2 places to fourth after 3 good innings against South Africa. His teammate Abhishek Sharma continues to maintain his comfortable lead at the top of the batting rankings, while South African pair Aiden Markram and Quinton de Kock have also made good progress. Markram has moved up 8 places to 29th and De Kock has jumped 14 places to 43rd after some good recent performances.