ICC T20I Rankings: Virat Kohli Jumps To 7th Spot | Cricket News

New Zealand opener Tim Seifert and quick bowler Tim Southee have attained career-best positions after enjoying essential roles in a 2-1 sequence win over Pakistan. India skipper Virat Kohli has additionally moved up one spot and he now at the moment sits on the seventh place within the ICC T20I rankings for batsmen. Seifert has superior 24 slots to a career-best ninth place after a high-quality run within the residence sequence which noticed him high the mixture with 176 runs, whereas Southee’s six wickets within the sequence have lifted him from 13th to the seventh place. Seifert, who was named participant of the sequence with the excessive level being a career-best 84 not out off 63 balls within the second match in Hamilton, had a earlier highest rating of 32nd in August this yr.

Southee’s six wickets, which included a haul of 4 for 21 within the second match, enabled him to higher his earlier better of 10th place completed in November final yr. Southee has thus reached the highest 10 in all three codecs throughout his profession, having career-bests of fourth in Tests and ninth in ODIs.

Shaheen Shah Afridi has additionally attained a career-best 16th place within the rankings for the shortest format, whereas Hafeez and Rizwan even have main positive aspects within the newest replace after New Zealand-Pakistan sequence.

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For Pakistan, Hafeez’s 140 runs, which included an unbeaten 99 within the second match, noticed him achieve 14 locations to succeed in 33rd place. Pakistan’s bowlers had extra to cheer about, with Faheem Ashraf shifting up 22 locations to 13th place, Shaheen Afridi gaining up 11 ranks to succeed in a career-best 16th place and Harif Rauf’s 5 wickets within the sequence serving to him climb 42 locations to 67th on the chart.

In the ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings, Pakistan has misplaced three factors and New Zealand has gained three, however the two retain their fourth and sixth positions, respectively.