The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the latest T20 rankings.
According to the ICC’s new rankings, Pakistan’s young batters Sahibzada Farhan and Hassan Nawaz have made significant gains in the T20 International rankings following their outstanding performances in the recent three-match T20 series against Bangladesh. Pakistan, however, lost the series.
Sahibzada Farhan jumped 69 places in the batting rankings to enter the top 100, now positioned at 97th with 389 points.
Middle-order batter Hassan Nawaz also climbed 14 spots and is now jointly ranked 54th with South Africa’s aggressive batter David Miller, with 500 points.
T20 team captain Salman Ali Agha saw a slight improvement, moving up two places to 91st, while opener Saim Ayub also gained two spots to reach 62nd.
On the other hand, several key Pakistani batters experienced a decline in their rankings. Star batter Babar Azam dropped to 14th, and Mohammad Rizwan slipped to 16th.
Mohammad Haris faced the biggest setback, falling 15 places to 65th, while Fakhar Zaman dropped two spots to 81st.
In the batting rankings, India’s Abhishek Sharma overtook Australia’s Travis Head to clinch the top position, while Tilak Varma secured third place.
No Pakistani among top 20 bowlers
In the bowling rankings, no Pakistani player is in the top 20. Fast bowlers Abbas Afridi and Haris Rauf slipped two places each, now ranked 24th and 26th, respectively. Shaheen Shah Afridi gained one spot to reach 35th.
Spinner Abrar Ahmed dropped two places to 51st, while vice-captain Shadab Khan also fell two spots to 67th.
In the T20 bowling rankings, New Zealand’s Jacob Duffy remains at the top, followed by England’s Adil Rashid in second and India’s Varun Chakravarthy in third.
