ICC T20 Rankings: 5 match series against NZ ends, now see who is where and who is number-1 in ICC T20 Rankings

The Indian cricket team defeated New Zealand by 46 runs in the fifth T20 played on Saturday. While Ishan Kishan scored a century, Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav also played stormy innings, with the help of which India was able to score a big score of 271 runs. New Zealand batted well, but the team collapsed for 225 runs. India won the 5-match T20 series 4-1. Know who are the top-10 players in all three categories of the ICC T20 rankings. How many Indians are there among them?

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ICC updates its rankings every Wednesday. Before the T20 World Cup 2026, ICC will update the rankings on 4 February. Currently, 2 Indian players are at number 1 in the ranking. Abhishek Sharma is at number-1 in the T20 batting rankings. The second player is Varun Chakravarthy, who is ranked number-1 in the ICC T20 bowling rankings.

ICC T20 Batting Ranking (Top-10)

1. Abhishek Sharma (India)
2. Phil Salt (England)
3. Tilak Verma (India)
4. Jos Buttler (England)
5. Sahibzada Farhan (Pakistan)
6. Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka)
7. Suryakumar Yadav (India)
8. Travis Head (Australia)
9. Mitchell Marsh (Australia)
10. Tim Seifert (New Zealand)

There are 3 Indian players in the top-10 of the ICC T20 batting rankings. Abhishek Sharma is on first, Tilak Verma is on third and Suryakumar Yadav is on 7th. Suryakumar also played an explosive half-century in the fifth T20 against New Zealand, after which he can jump in the rankings to be updated on Wednesday. Ishan Kishan is currently at 64th position, but the way he has scored a century, he can move up a lot.

ICC T20 Bowling Ranking (Top-10)

1. Varun Chakraborty (India)
2. Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)
3. Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)
4. Jacob Duffy (New Zealand)
5. Abrar Ahmed (Pakistan)
6. Adil Rashid (England)
7. Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh)
8. Nathan Ellis (Australia)
9. Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Afghanistan)
10. Adam Zampa (Australia)

ICC T20 Allrounder Ranking (Top-10)

1. Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe)
2. Sam Ayub (Pakistan)
3. Hardik Pandya (India)
4. Roston Chase (West Indies)
5. Mohammad Nawaz (Pakistan)
6. Deependra Singh Airi (Nepal)
7. Azmatullah Omarzai (Afghanistan)
8. Romario Shepherd (West Indies)
9. Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan)
10. Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)

The only Indian in the top-10 of the ICC T20 all-rounder rankings is Hardik Pandya, who is currently at third position. He scored the last 42 runs against New Zealand. He also took 2 wickets in the third T20. It remains to be seen whether he would have come second in the ICC rankings or not.