DUBAI – Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has prolonged his lead as the highest ranked ODI batter on the earth as a pair of New Zealand gamers made big strides on the most recent MRF Tyres ICC Males’s Participant Rankings.
Babar smashed an excellent 74 throughout Pakistan’s 16-run victory over the Netherlands on Tuesday and this helped him put additional floor on his closest pursuers on the head of the ODI rankings.
The ICC revealed their newest set of Males’s rankings on Wednesday and Babar’s reign on the high of the ODI charts seems like persevering with if the present pattern continues.
Babar has been on the high of the ODI batter rankings since he overtook former India skipper Virat Kohli in April final 12 months and his lead on the high is now out to 91 score factors after the most recent replace.
The Pakistan captain has a complete of 891 score factors, with team-mate Imam-ul-Haq his closest challenger on 800 score factors after the opener managed simply two in opposition to the Netherlands.
Babar additionally stays on high of the most recent T20I batter rankings, though New Zealand opener Devon Conway closes in on the Pakistan star after a powerful sequence in opposition to the West Indies.
Conway was the second main run-scorer for the sequence with 106 runs and that helped him rise one spot to seventh on the T20I batter rankings.