On Wednesday, ICC has released the latest rankings, in which Virat Kohli has gained in ODI Batting Ranking. In the first match of the ongoing ODI series (IND vs SA ODI) against South Africa, Virat had played a brilliant century of 135 runs. Virat has now once again come one step closer to becoming the world’s number-1 batsman. Currently Rohit Sharma is the number-1 batsman in ODIs.

Virat has advantage in ranking

Virat has benefited from his century innings against South Africa, due to which he has now moved up to fourth position with the gain of one place. He has achieved fourth position by defeating Shubman Gill. Virat’s rating points have reached 751, while Rohit Sharma, who is at number one, has 783 rating points.

4 Indians among top-10 batsmen

Let us tell you that there are four Indian batsmen in the top-10 of the ODI batting rankings. Rohit Sharma is at the first place, while Virat Kohli is at the fourth place and the regular captain of the Indian ODI team, Shubman Gill is at the fifth place. The fourth Indian batsman in the top-10 is Shreyas Iyer, who remains at number nine in the rankings.

1. Rohit Sharma (India)
2. Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand)
3. Ibrahim Zadran (Afghanistan)
4. Virat Kohli (India)
5. Shubman Gill (India)

Kuldeep Yadav has also gained in bowling rankings in ODI format. Kuldeep has now moved up one place to sixth place in the ODI bowling rankings. Talking about Virat Kohli, he has never been able to become the world’s number-1 batsman in ODI rankings after the year 2021. Virat had recently scored the 52nd century of his ODI career and 83rd century of his international career.

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Today, on 19th November, ICC has released its latest rankings, in which Rohit Sharma has been stripped of his crown of being the number-1 ODI batsman. Indian cricket fans celebrate this day with sadness because two years ago, under the captaincy of Rohit, India lost the ODI World Cup final. Now today itself, snatching away the crown of being number-1 in the ranking from Rohit is another sad news.

Who replaced Rohit Sharma?

Rohit Sharma has now slipped to second place in the ICC ODI batting rankings. Rohit has 781 rating points. Now New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell has become the world’s number-1 ODI batsman. He has 782 rating points, i.e. just 1 point more than Rohit. Earlier he was at number three.

ICC Test Rankings Batsman: The International Cricket Council has released the latest ranking of batsmen in Test cricket. Indian captain Shubman Gill has benefited bumper in the latest ICC rankings. Gill has achieved a career best place. In the latest ranking, Shubman Gill has now come at number six with 807 points. At the same time, Harry Brook of England has now become the world’s number-1 batsman in Tests. Brook has 886 points.

Shubman Gill has scored 585 runs in the first two Tests of the series against England. For this reason, Gill has got a bumper benefit in the latest ICC rankings. He has jumped 15 places. Shubman Gill scored 147 runs in the first innings of the first Test against England. After this, he could only score 8 runs in the second innings, but he did wonders in the second Test played in Edgbaston. In the first innings of the second Test, Gill scored 269 runs and then hit 161 runs in the second innings.

Jamie Smith benefits and Rishabh Pant’s loss

India’s wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant has lost a number in the latest ICC rankings. He has now slipped to number seven. At the same time, wicketkeeper batsman Jamie Smith, who has scored a century in the first innings of the second Test played for England in Edgbaston and a half-century in the second innings, has joined the top-10 for the first time. The good thing is that India’s 3 players are among the top-10 batsmen of the ICC Test rankings.

See the top-10 batsmen of ICC Test rankings

1- Harry Brook of England
2- Joe Root of England
3- Ken Williamson of New Zealand
4- Yashasvi Jaiswal of India

5- Steve Smith of Australia
6- Shubman Gill of India
7- Tamba Bavuma of South Africa
8- Rishabh Pant of India
9- Kamindu Mendis of Sri Lanka
10- Jamie Smith of England