Babar Azam topples Virat Kohli to change into world’s no 1 batsman

The 26-year-old Babar is simply the fourth Pakistani to realize the primary place, ending Kohli’s 1,258 day-supremacy.

Zaheer Abbas (1983-84), Javed Miandad (1988-89), and Mohammad Yousuf (2003) are the one three Pakistanis previously to realize the highest spot.

Babar scored an excellent 82-ball 94 within the final ODI, a part of the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup Tremendous League sequence in opposition to South Africa in Centurion, serving to him to realize 13 ranking factors to achieve 865 factors and he now leads the Indian captain by eight factors.

Alternatively, Left-handed opener Fakhar Zaman has gained 5 slots to achieve a career-best seventh place after his knock of 101 within the closing ODI whereas pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi has moved up 4 locations to a career-best eleventh place in bowlers’ rankings.

Left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz (up 29 locations to 96th) has progressed due to their three-wicket hauls within the match.

In ICC Males’s T20I Participant Rankings, wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan has jumped to 24 locations to twenty third place whereas Nawaz (up 36 locations to twenty-eight), Hasan Ali (up 22 locations to 62nd) and Usman Qadir (up 24 locations to 68th) have moved up the bowlers’ checklist.