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Internet Desk: Young Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah gained a lot of places in the latest MRF Tyres ICC ODI Player Rankings. The young pacer played a crucial role in India’s 5-0 whitewash over Sri Lanka in the recently concluded ODI series.
Frog-leaping 27 ranks he is now currently ranked 4th in the Bowlers list. Aussie pacer Josh Hazlewood leads the rankings followed by Proteas spinner Imran Tahir while Australian pacer Mitchell Stark occupies the third spot.
The 23 year old’s previous best was 24th rank which he held in June this year. Bumrah scalped 15 wickets which is the highest by any bowler in a bilateral series against the Lankans.
Also gaining in the rankings is India’s left-arm spinner Akshar Patel, who has moved up from 20th to 10th position after finishing with six wickets in four matches. Patel has thus closed in on his career-high rank of ninth in October last year.
Hardik Pandya (up two places to 61st), Kuldeep Yadav (up 21 places to 89th) and Yuzvendra Chahal (up 55 places to 99th) are other India bowlers to gain in the rankings.
Skipper Virat Kohli has consolidated his position at the top of the rankings for batsmen after his 330 runs in the series, which included an unbeaten 110 in the last match in Colombo on Sunday, his second century of the series.
Kohli, who is also top-ranked in T20Is, has increased his lead over Australia’s David Warner from 12 to 26 points and is now on 887 points – equaling the highest ODI rating points by an India batsman, recorded by Sachin Tendulkar in 1998. has kept his stranglehold on the top spot in the ICC ODI batsman rankings and has also equalled Sachin Tendulkar’s record of highest rating points pocketed by an Indian.
Kohli was in sublime touch in the series, scoring two hundreds to complete 30 ODI centuries.
Rohit Sharma, the second highest run-maker in the series with 302 runs, and former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni are both back in the top 10. Sharma, who struck two centuries in Sri Lanka, has gained five slots to reach ninth place while Dhoni’s 162 runs have lifted him two places to 10th position.