Suryakumar Yadav has played just 20 T20I innings, but he has already accomplished enough to pass Babar Azam for first place among batters in the ICC T20I rankings. Suryakumar has moved up to No. 2 because of his most recent impressive performance, a match-winning 76 from 44 balls in the third T20I against the West Indies on Tuesday in Basseterre. With two T20Is left in the series, he is currently only two rating points behind Babar’s 818.
In the ongoing series against West Indies, he got off to a poor start alongside skipper Rohit Sharma as the opening batsman, registering a 16-ball 24 and a six-ball 11. However, he showed up in the third game, taking the starring role as India easily defeated West Indies’ 164 for 5 with an over remaining. As a result, he moved up from No. 4 to No. 2, surpassing Aiden Markram and Mohammad Rizwan, who are now Nos. 3 and 4, respectively. Dawid Malan is ranked fifth.
Suryakumar made his debut for India only last year, and as of this writing, he has 648 T20I runs at an average of 38.11 and a strike rate of 175.60. His significant improvement in the rankings came when he attained his first T20I century, 117 against England at Trent Bridge, last month. Suryakumar rose an astounding 44 spots to No. 5 on the table as a result of the innings.
In the meantime, Babar is the only batter currently ranked in the top three across all international formats (No. 1 in ODIs and T20Is and No. 3 in Tests). With India still having two games remaining to play in the West Indies and Pakistan’s next T20I match being at the Asia Cup at the end of August, where they will face India, he may not lose the top rank in T20Is right away.
After three Twenty20 Internationals, in which India has a 2-1 series lead, Akeal Hosein has climbed three spots to No. 6 among bowlers with stat lines of 1 for 14, 1 for 22, and 1 for 28.
Reeza Hendricks’ string of 57, 53, and 70 helped the visitors win the series 2-1 while South Africa was in England for T20I matches in late July, and he has moved up to No. 15 as a result. Tristan Stubbs, a rookie, too had a stunning rise in position thanks to his 72, 15 not out, and 8 as he rocketed to 126th place and an amazing 1404 spots up the table.
In the second and third T20Is, Tabraiz Shamsi had great success as well, returning 3 for 27 and 5 for 24. He replaced Rashid Khan at No. 2 among the bowlers after rising from No. 3.
Gustav McKeon of France has been making headlines away from the Full-Members spotlight in the ICC’s T20 World Cup 2024 Europe Sub-Regional Qualifiers. To date, he has scored 76 runs against the Czech Republic, 109 against Switzerland, 101 against Norway, 87 against Estonia, and 4 runs against Guernsey. As a result, he rose to 134th place, moving up 706 ranks. On the all-rounders’ table, Markram advanced four ranks to tie for seventh place with Zeeshan Maqsood of Oman, Sikandar Raza advanced eight positions to eleventh, and Hardik Pandya advanced nine positions to thirteenth.
On July 28, the second Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan concluded at Galle with a 246-run victory for Sri Lanka, tying the two-Test series. Ramesh Mendis rose 19 spots to No. 31 after scoring 5 for 47 and 4 for 101, while Prabath Jayasuriya, who had 3 for 80 and 5 for 117 in that Test, climbed 11 spots to No. 33. Dinesh Chandimal moved up two positions to 16th place among Test batsmen thanks to his 80 and 21 with the bat.
Jasprit Bumrah moved up one spot to equal third on the list of bowlers, but Rohit fell one spot to ninth on the Test batsman rankings.