Delhi: The effect of Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav’s excellent form in the ongoing five-match home T20 International series against New Zealand is clearly visible in the latest ICC T20 batsman rankings. In the latest list released on Wednesday, Suryakumar has taken a huge jump of five places and achieved seventh position. India has taken a strong lead in the series by winning all three matches played so far.

Continuous runs in the series, big advantage in ranking

Suryakumar, who once topped the rankings of T20 batsmen, has consistently performed impressively in this series. He played innings of 32, 82 not out and 57 not out in three matches, which directly benefited him in the ranking. The confidence of the Indian batting order before the T20 World Cup has been further strengthened by this performance.

Abhishek Sharma number one, Tilak Verma remains in top-3

Indian opener Abhishek Sharma remains at the first position in the T20 rankings for batsmen. At the same time, Tilak Verma remains at third position. However, due to injury he has not been able to participate in the current New Zealand series. Despite this, his position in the rankings remains stable.

Ishan Kishan returns to the rankings, Dubey and Rinku benefit

Ishan Kishan, who played an explosive inning of 76 runs in 32 balls in the second T20 played in Raipur, has re-entered the rankings of T20 batsmen and has reached 64th position. Shivam Dubey has also benefited from his performance and has jumped nine places to reach 58th position. At the same time, Rinku Singh has moved up 13 places to reach 68th position.

Progress of batsmen of Afghanistan and South Africa

Afghanistan’s Ibrahim Zadran, who batted brilliantly during the 2-1 win in the T20 series played against West Indies in Dubai, has moved up two places to 13th position. Rahmanullah Gurbaz has also moved up to 15th position with a gain of three places. Darvesh Rasooli, who was the ‘Player of the Series’, took a big jump of 29 places and achieved 87th position. South African captain Aiden Markram has also made it to the top 20 on the basis of his unbeaten inning of 86 runs in the first match against West Indies.

Bumrah and Bishnoi lead in the ranking of bowlers

Afghanistan’s spinner Mujeeb ur Rahman has moved up five places to ninth position in the T20 bowlers’ rankings. India’s Jasprit Bumrah has gained four places to reach 13th position, while Ravi Bishnoi has jumped 13 places to 19th position. South Africa’s Corbin Bosch has moved up eight places to reach his career-best ranking of 32nd.

Hardik Pandya reached top-3 among all-rounders

Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya has jumped 18 places in the bowlers’ list by taking four wickets in three matches and has reached 59th position. In the ranking of batsmen also, he improved two places and achieved 53rd position. Pandya has moved up one place to third place in the T20 rankings for all-rounders.

England’s batsmen have advantage in ODI rankings

In the rankings for ODI batsmen, England’s Harry Brook has made a big jump of 17 places to reach 11th position. At the same time, experienced batsman Joe Root has moved from 23rd to 17th position, due to which the strength of England’s middle order is also reflected in the rankings.

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