Maxwell becomes top T20I all-rounder by International Cricket Council

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Player:

GJ Maxwell

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DateLine: 11th September 2016

 

Australia’s Glenn Maxwell has surged to the top of the all-rounders’ list while also making a huge jump to reach a career-best third position in the latest MRF Tyres ICC Players Rankings for T20I Batsmen.

 

Maxwell, who smashed aggressive knocks of 145 not out and 66 in the two-match series against Sri Lanka in Pallekele and Colombo that his team won 2-0, has leapfrogged Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan to become the top-ranked T20I all-rounder with his performance in the first match and consolidated it in the second.

 

Maxwell has also gained16 places in the batsmen’s rankings, which is led by India’s Virat Kohli with Australia’s Aaron Finch in second place. Kohli is comfortably placed with 820 points but Maxwell has moved to 763 points, just eight less than Finch.

 

Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal has moved up four places to 60th rank in the batsmen’s list with scores of 58 and four in the two matches while his team-mate Chamara Kapugedera has moved up 18 slots to reach 72nd rank after scoring 43 and seven.

 

Tillakaratne Dilshan, a former top-ranked batsman (in June 2009), has retired at 19th rank. In the all-rounders’ list he is in15th position after playing his last match in Colombo and is ranked 119th in the bowlers’ list. His best rank as an all-rounder was fifth in March 2012 while as a bowler his highest rank was 18th in January 2007.

 

The one-off Twenty20 match at Old Trafford in which Pakistan beat England by nine wickets, has seen the visiting side’s Sharjeel Khan move up 28 places to 37th rank with his knock of 59 while his team-mate Khalid Latif’s unbeaten 59 has helped him move up 61 places to 120th rank.

 

Meanwhile, Hong Kong captain Babar Hayat has moved up the rankings with his knock of 49 that helped pull off a 40-run victory over Ireland. Hayat has moved up 19 places to the 38th slot with his performance as Hong Kong won the two-match series 1-0 with the second match abandoned due to rain.

 

In the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for T20I Bowlers, Australia pace bowler James Faulkner has jumped four places to move to fifth position with a career-best rating of 672 points after taking four wickets in the series against Sri Lanka while Mitchell Starc’s four wickets in the two matches has seen him re-enter the rankings at 20th place.

 

Pakistan left-arm spinner Imad Wasim (37th) and pace bowler Wahab Riaz (45th) are the others to move up the rankings after grabbing two and three wickets, respectively, in the match against England.

 

Hong Kong’s left-arm spinner Nadeem Ahmed has moved up two places to 28th position with his two wickets against Ireland while his team’s pace bowlers Aizaz Khan (34th) and Tanwir Afzal (38th) have also gained in the rankings.

 

In the MRF Tyres ICC T20I Team Rankings, Australia has gained one slot to reach fifth rank. It moved from 110 to 114 points to go past England, which has slipped from 116 to 113 after its loss to Pakistan in the one-off T20I.

 

Hong Kong’s 1-0 win in the two-match series against Ireland has helped it gain five points but it remains at 17th position. Ireland has lost six points to go down to 42 but maintains its 15th position.

 

MRF Tyres ICC T20I Rankings (as of 10 September 2016, after the Sri Lanka-Australia, England-Pakistan and Ireland-Hong Kong matches)

 

Rank Team Points
1. New Zealand 132
2. India 126
3. West Indies 125
4. South Africa 119
5. Australia 114
6. England 113
7. Pakistan 107
8. Sri Lanka 94
9. Afghanistan 78
10. Bangladesh 74
11. Netherlands 67
12. Zimbabwe 62
13. Scotland 57
14. UAE 54
15. Ireland 42
16. Oman 37
17. Hong Kong 34

 

PNG has T20I status but because it has not played eight rated T20Is during the period, it has not been ranked. (Developed by David Kendix)

 

MRF Tyres ICC T20I Rankings

 

Batsmen (top 10)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge S/R Highest Rating
1 ( - ) Virat Kohli Ind 820 57.13 135 897 v Eng at Edgbaston 2014
2 ( - ) Aaron Finch Aus 771 38.96 150 892 v Ban at Mirpur 2014
3 (+16) Glenn Maxwell Aus 763! 29.35 167 763 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2016
4 (-1) Martin Guptill NZ 754 34.73 131 793 v SA at Hamilton 2012
5 (-1) Faf du Plessis SA 741 37.68 133 843 v Ban at Mirpur 2015
6 ( - ) K. Williamson NZ 719 34.53 124 737 v Pak at Hamilton 2016
7 (-2) Joe Root Eng 708 37.50 137 750 v WI at Kolkata 2016
8 (-1) Alex Hales Eng 705 31.42 134 866 v Ind at Edgbaston 2014
9 (-1) M.Shahzad Afg 674 29.71 136 690 v SA at Mumbai 2016
10 (-1) Chris Gayle WI 668 35.32 145 831 v Aus at Colombo (RPS) 2012

 

Other selected rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge S/R Highest Rating
19 (-4) T. Dilshan SL 607 28.19 120 802 v NZ at Colombo (RPS) 2009
37 (+29) Sharjeel Khan Pak 506*! 27.08 144 506 v Eng at Old Trafford 2016
38 (+19) Babar Hayat HK 500*! 30.29 131 500 v Ire at Bready 2016
60 (+4) D.Chandimal SL 431 18.07 104 442 v Aus at Pallekele 2016
72 (+18) C. Kapugedera SL 376 21.57 118 386 v Aus at Pallekele 2016
80 (+8) Kevin O'Brien Ire 360*! 16.55 119 360 v HK at Bready 2016

 

Bowlers (top 10)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Eco Highest Rating
1 ( - ) Samuel Badree WI 743 15.50 5.53 855 v Pak at Mirpur 2014
2 ( - ) Imran Tahir SA 740 ! 15.37 6.48 740 v SL at Delhi 2016
3 ( - ) Jasprit Bumrah Ind 735 18.82 6.62 751 v Zim at Harare 2016
4 ( - ) R.Ashwin Ind 684 22.19 6.91 765 v SL at Visakhapatnam 2016
5 (+4) James Faulkner Aus 672! 19.51 8.08 672 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2016
6 ( - ) Kyle Abbott SA 671! 22.26 7.96 671 v SL at Delhi 2016
7 ( - ) Sunil Narine WI 668 19.00 5.95 817 v Pak at St. Vincent 2013
8 (-3) Shahid Afridi Pak 661 24.35 6.61 814 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2009
9 (-1) Adam Milne NZ 655* 21.80 7.36 661 v Pak at Mohali 2016
10 ( - ) M.Nabi Afg 638 ! 23.95 6.90 638 v WI at Nagpur 2016

 

Other selected rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Eco Highest Rating
20 (RE) Mitchell Starc Aus 593 18.86 6.77 702 v Pak at Dubai 2014
28 (+2) Nadeem Ahmed HK 562 20.68 6.45 565 v Afg at Nagpur 2016
34 (+11) Aizaz Khan HK 545! 18.07 6.91 545 v Ire at Bready 2016
37 (+13) Imad Wasim Pak 537*! 20.58 6.02 537 v Eng at Old Trafford 2016
38 (+5) Tanwir Afzal HK 535 26.78 7.16 538 v Afg at Nagpur 2016
45 (+27) Wahab Riaz Pak 515! 24.04 8.07 515 v Eng at Old Trafford 2016

 

All-rounders (top five)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Highest Rating
1 (+2) Glenn Maxwell Aus 388! 388 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2016
2 (-1) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 346 408 v Pak at Mirpur 2015
3 (-1) Shahid Afridi Pak 319 413 v NZ at Dubai 2009
4 ( - ) Marlon Samuels WI 276 321 v SL at Mirpur 2014
5 ( - ) M. Nabi Afg 274 276 v Eng at Delhi 2016

 

*indicates provisional rating !indicates best ranking

 

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