Suryakumar Yadav topples Mohammad Rizwan to become top T20I batter

DUBAI: India’s Suryakumar Yadav has replaced Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan as the top batter in T20I cricket after the latest rankings update by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

Yadav has gone past Rizwan on the back of his impressive start to the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, where the 32-year-old has notched up back-to-back half centuries against the Netherlands and South Africa.

The Indian star has already registered eight half-centuries and one brilliant century in T20Is this year.

South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw and New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips have also made moves inside the top 10.

Rossouw, who scored a magnificent century against Bangladesh in Sydney, has jumped 17 places to eighth overall in the rankings.

Meanwhile, Phillips, who made 104 against Sri Lanka, rises five places to seventh on the latest list for batters.

In the list for T20I bowlers, Sri Lanka all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga is close to claiming the top ranking from fellow spinner Rashid Khan.

Hasaranga, who has bagged the most wickets for any bowler at this year’s T20 World Cup so far (13), has moved up four spots to second overall.

Rashid remains on top of the rankings list with a total of 700 rating points, but Hasaranga (697), Tabraiz Shamsi (694) and Josh Hazlewood (692) are not far behind.

In the latest rankings for T20I all-rounders, Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan is still at the top but he is closely followed by Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi in second place with a gap of only 11 rating points.  

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