A 5-match T20 series will be played between India and Australia, the top 2 teams in the ICC T20 rankings, from October 29. Pakistan vs South Africa 3 match T20 series is starting from Tuesday. A lot will change in the ICC rankings after this series, but who is the batsman, bowler and all-rounder at number one right now? Let us know and information about the top 5 players in each category is also given here.

Top-5 teams of T20

Team India, captained by Suryakumar Yadav, is currently at number one in the ICC T20 team rankings. India has 272 ratings and 17396 points in 64 matches. Australia is at second place with 268 rating and 10434 points.

• 1- India (272 ratings)
• 2- Australia – (268 ratings)
• 3- England- (258 ratings)
• 4- New Zealand-(250 rating)
• 5- South Africa-(241 ratings)

Who is the number one batsman in T20?

India’s Abhishek Sharma is the number-1 batsman in T20, he has 926 rating points. Talking only about Australian batsmen, Travis Head is at the top of the rankings, he is at sixth position in the list with 743 rating. Abhishek and Travis Head both play for the same team (Sunrisers Hyderabad) in IPL.

Top-5 batsmen in ICC rankings

• 1- Abhishek Sharma (India)- 926
• 2- Phil Salt (England) – 857
• 3- Tilak Verma (India)- 819
• 4- Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka) – 779
• 5- Jos Buttler (England)- 775

Who is the number one bowler in T20?

Indian spinner Varun Chakravarthy is the world’s number-1 T20 bowler. He became the number-1 bowler during Asia Cup 2025. He has 803 rating points. Talking about Australian bowlers, Adam Zampa is at the top, who is at 5th place in the list with 691 rating.

Top 5 T20 bowlers in ICC rankings

• 1- Varun Kakraborty (India)- 803
• 2- Akeal Hosein (West Indies)- 699
• 3- Adil Rashid (England)- 696
• 4- Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)- 693
• 5- Adam Zampa (Afghanistan)- 691

Who is the number one all-rounder in T20?

Pakistan’s Sam Ayub is the world’s number-1 T20 all-rounder. India’s top all-rounder in the list is Hardik Pandya, who is at second place with 233 rating. However, Hardik is not a part of the upcoming T20 series against Australia. Talking about Australia, there is no player in the top-5 or top-10.

Top-5 T20 all-rounders in ICC rankings

• 1- Sam Ayub (Pakistan)- 241
• 2- Hardik Pandya (India) – 233
• 3- Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan) – 223
• 4- Deependra Singh (Nepal)- 202
• 5- Alexander Raja (Zimbabwe) – 198

Abhishek Sharma has created a new record in the ICC rankings. He scored 314 runs in 7 matches of the Asia Cup, which has a tremendous benefit in the ranking. Abhishek has become the batsman to score the highest rating points in the history of T20’s batting rankings. Abhishek has now got 931 rating points, let us tell you that a player can get a maximum of one thousand marks in the ranking.

Earlier, the record of the highest rating points in the T20 batting rankings was in the name of David Malan of England, which reached 919 rating points. He has also broken the records of Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli. Suryakumar Yadav scored a maximum of 912 rating points in his career, while Virat Kohli reached the 909 figure.

• Abhishek Sharma – 931 rating point
• David Malan – 919 rating point
• Suryakumar Yadav – 912 rating point
• Virat Kohli – 909 rating point

T20 batting ranking

Abhishek Sharma remains the world’s number-1 batsman in the batsmen ranking in T20. In second place is Phil Salat of England, while Tilak Verma, who scored an unbeaten 69 against Pakistan in the Asia Cup final, is at the third position. Jose Butler is ranked fourth, while Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nisanka jumped 2 places and hit the top-5.

Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav was able to score only 72 runs in the Asia Cup. He has suffered the brunt of this poor performance, because he has slipped 2 places to the eighth position. Sanju Samson played small innings on important occasions in the tournament, which he has benefited in the ranking. He jumped 8 places and captured 31st position among the batsmen. Shubman Gill remains in 32nd place.

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The ICC released the latest ranking on Wednesday, 30 July in which Indian opener Abhishek Sharma has become the number-1 batsman of T20. He has taken away the crown of Travis Head, who started the innings with him in the IPL. After 1 year, the head of the head ended and he moved to another place. Abhishek created history by achieving this position only after playing only 17 matches.

Abhishek Sharma was first second in the T20 batsmen rankings, Travis Head stood as the number 1 batsman of T20 for about 1 year. Now Abhishek took away his crown. Abhishek has 829 rating points and head has 814 points.

List of ICC Top 5 T20 batsmen

• Abhishek Sharma (India)- 829 ratings
• Travis head (Australia)- 814 ratings
• Tilak Verma (India)- 804 ratings
• Phil Salt (England)- 791 ratings
• Jose Butler (England)- 772 ratings

Abhishek Sharma T20 career, and records

Abhishek Sharma has played 17 international T20 matches, in which he has scored 535 runs at a strike rate of 193.84 in 16 innings played. He has 2 centuries and 2 half -centuries in T20 International.

Abhishek Sharma is the highest innings in T20 international cricket for India. He scored 135 runs in 54 balls against England. In this innings played on February 2, 2025, he hit 13 sixes and 7 fours.

He scored a century in 37 balls in the match played against England in February this year, which is the second fastest century by Indian in T20 International. Rohit is at number one, who scored a century in 35 balls. Rohit has retired from T20 format.

Abhishek Sharma is the second Indian to score the fastest half -century in T20 International. In the innings in which he scored the fastest century, he scored a half -century in 17 balls. Ahead of him is only Yuvraj Singh, who scored a half -century in 12 balls in 2007.