ICC ODI Rankings: Virat Kohli Touches Career-High 911 points, Sixth Best Ever

Jul 18, 2018 at 7:36 PM

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ICC ODI Rankings: Virat Kohli Touches Career-High 911 points, Sixth Best Ever

India captain Virat Kohli strengthened his position at the top of ICC ODI rankings for batsmen by touching a career-high 911 point, while Kuldeep Yadav broke into the top ten of the bowlers’ chart at the sixth slot. Their rise comes despite India losing the ODI series against England 1-2 last night in Leeds.

Kohli ended the series with scores 75, 45 and 71. He earned just two points but those were enough to take him to 911 points, highest since Australia’s Dean Jones tally of 918 points in March 1991.

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LEEDS, ENGLAND – JULY 17: India batsman Virat Kohli hits out during 3rd ODI Royal London One Day match between England and India at Headingley on July 17, 2018, in Leeds, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Yadav has broken into the top-10 for the first time in his career. The left-arm wrist-spinner took nine wickets in the series, including six-for at Trent Bridge, which got rewarded with a rise of eight places to a career-high sixth position, the ICC said in a statement.

Yadav is the second India bowler to feature in the top-10 after number-one ranked Jasprit Bumrah and the fifth spinner to find a place in the ten highest-ranked bowlers. The other four are Rashid Khan (second), Imran Tahir (seventh), Adil Rashid (eighth) and Yuzvendra Chahal (10th).

England batsman Joe Root’s back-to-back centuries have helped him vault into second place in the rankings list. Root had leapfrogged Babar Azam (Pakistan), Rohit Sharma (India), David Warner (Australia) and Ross Taylor (New Zealand) to a career-high second position.

Root had scores of three, 113 not out and 100 not out, which earned him 34 points and have now put him 93 points behind Kohli. Root had previously reached fourth on the batting rankings in August 2016 and is now just one point below his career-best points tally of 819, which he had achieved against Australia earlier this year in Brisbane.

Jason Roy and Eoin Morgan are the other batsmen to improve their rankings in the latest table. Roy has moved up one place to 19th, while Morgan is now in the 22nd spot after rising two places. England pacer Liam Plunkett has gained one place and is now at 20th; Mark Wood is on a career-high 26th ranking after rising two places, and David Willey has jumped 11 places to claim the 31st position.

There is no change in the top five all-rounders, with Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan leading the field.

In the Team Rankings, number-one ranked England has moved to 127 points after gaining one point, while India have dropped one point to finish on 121 points. This means the four-point pre-series gap has now extended to six points.

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