India’s star batsman Virat Kohli climbed 5 locations to return to the ninth place within the high 10 T20 International batting record within the newest rankings launched on Wednesday.
Kohli has been rewarded for his gallantry towards Pakistan within the first match of India’s T20 World Cup towards arch-rivals Pakistan on the Melbourne Cricket Ground final Sunday. Kohli scored an unbeaten 82 to provide India a memorable last-ball victory, an innings that propelled the previous India captain into the highest 10 within the record of T20I batsmen.
The 33-year-old hit six fours and 4 sixes throughout his scintillating innings. Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan (849 ranking factors) is within the high spot, with New Zealand opener Devon Conway (831) gaining three locations to exchange Suryakumar Yadav from the second spot.
Conway performed an unbeaten 92 off 58 balls as New Zealand beat defending champions Australia by 89 runs of their opening match. With 828 ranking factors in his kitty, Suryakumar dropped to 3rd place, however was forward of Pakistan captain Babar Azam (799) and South Africa’s Aiden Markram (762).
New Zealand’s Finn Allen additionally went forward due to his swashbuckling 16-ball 42 towards Australia, which helped him leap 17 locations to thirteenth.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
