Rahul Tiwari
khelja|02-04-2025
India's T20 League IPL 2025 season continues. Many top players around the world are currently participating in this tournament. Meanwhile, the ICC has also released the latest T20 ranking. This time, in the list of ICC's top T20 bowlers, a bowler won, who is still unaware of international cricket. This bowler is Jacob Dafi of New Zealand. 30-year-old Dafi has played only 23 T20 matches so far and now he has become the number-1 bowler in this format. He has achieved this position by beating 4 bowlers including Varun Chakraborty.
Jacob Dafi recently performed brilliantly in the T20 series against Pakistan, which he benefited. He reached number first from 5th in the ICC T20 rankings. Earlier, this Taj was with Akil Hussain of West Indies, who has now gone second. Apart from Hussain, Dafi left behind Adil Rashid, Vanindu Hasranga and Varun Chakraborty and jumped 4 places. On the other hand, Varun Chakraborty has suffered a loss of staying away from international cricket these days. He has slipped from second to third place in this list.
Despite being busy in the IPL, the Indian bowlers have seen the fire in the ICC T20 rankings. The top-10 includes the names of 3 Indian bowlers. Apart from Varun Chakraborty, leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi, who is playing for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2025, is in the top-10, who plays for Punjab Kings. While Bishnoi remains in 7th place, Arshdeep has retained positions on his number 10.
Talking about the batsmen in the ICC T20 rankings, India has also seen dominance in it. Among the top-10 batsmen, Team India has three players, including captain Suryakumar Yadav, Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma. They have not suffered any harm and all are on their respective positions. The latest list has Travis Head No-1. At the same time, it comes to Abhishek, who is on another. In third place is England's opener Phil Salt, while Tilak Verma is at number four and Suryakumar Yadav on the fifth. In this format, Hardik Pandya is intact as number-1 all-rounder.