ICC releases rankings for different categories (batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders) in all three formats of cricket. If we look at the list of top-10 players in each category of all three formats in the latest rankings, a total of 14 Indian players are included in them. 4 Indian players including Abhishek Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah are occupying the number-1 position. Here is the list of top-10 players in each category of all three formats. Information about how many Indians are included in all formats is also given here.

8 Indian batsmen included in top-10!

Indian players have maintained maximum dominance in the ranking in batting only. A total of 8 Indian players are included in the top-10 list of all three formats. Abhishek is at number-1 in the T20 rankings. If we look at the top-10 list of ODI, 4 Indian players are included in it. See the list of top-10 batsmen and their rating points in all three formats.

icc test batting rankings

1. Joe Root (England)- 908
2. Harry Brook (England)- 868
3. Kane Williamson (New Zealand)- 850
4. Steve Smith (Australia)- 816
5. Temba Bavuma (South Africa) – 794
6. Kamindu Mendis (Sri Lanka)- 781
7. Yashasvi Jaiswal (India)- 749
8. Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand) – 748
9. Ben Duckett (England)- 747
10. Travis Head (Australia) – 470

ICC ODI batting rankings

1. Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand)- 782
2. Rohit Sharma (India)- 781
3. Ibrahim Zadran (Afghanistan)- 764
4. Shubman Gill (India)- 745
5. Virat Kohli (India) – 725
6. Babar Azam (Pakistan)- 722
7. Harry Tector (Ireland) – 708
8. Shreyas Iyer (India)- 700
9. Charith Asalanka (Sri Lanka)- 690
10. Shai Hope (West Indies)- 689

ICC T20 batting rankings

1. Abhishek Sharma (India)- 920
2. Phil Salt (England) – 849
3. Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka) – 779
4. Jos Buttler (England)- 770
5. Tilak Verma (India)- 761
6. Travis Head (Australia)- 713
7. Kusal Perera (Sri Lanka)- 692
8. Suryakumar Yadav (India)- 691
9. Mitchell Marsh (Australia)- 684
10. Tim Seifert (New Zealand)- 683

Bumrah and Chakraborty number-1

Talking about bowlers, Indian players are at number-1 in Test and T20. Jasprit Bumrah in Test and Varun Chakraborty in T20 are the world’s number-1 bowlers. Kuldeep Yadav is at sixth place in the top-10 list of ODI. Only 1 Indian is included in the top-10 list of all three formats.

icc test bowling rankings

1. Jasprit Bumrah (India)- 895
2. Matt Henry (New Zealand)- 846
3. Noman Ali (Pakistan)- 843
4. Pat Cummins (Australia)- 838
5. Josh Hazlewood (Australia)- 815
6. Kagiso Rabada (South Africa)- 815
7. Scott Boland (Australia) – 784
8. Nathan Lyon (Australia)- 769
9. Mitchell Starc (Australia)- 766
10. Gus Atkinson (England)- 766

ICC ODI bowling rankings

1. Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)- 710
2. Joffra Archer (England)- 670
3. Keshav Maharaj (South Africa)- 660
4. Mahesh Teekshana (Sri Lanka)- 647
5. Bernard Scholtz (Namibia) – 645
6. Kuldeep Yadav (India)- 634
7. Mitchell Santner (New Zealand)- 630
8. Josh Hazlewood (Australia)- 628
9. Abrar Ahmed (Pakistan)- 624
10. Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)- 619

ICC T20 bowling rankings

1. Varun Chakraborty (India)- 780
2. Jacob Duffy (New Zealand)- 699
3. Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)- 694
4. Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)- 687
5. Adil Rashid (England)- 686
6. Nuwan Thushara (Sri Lanka)- 676
7. Akeal Hossain (West Indies)- 675
8. Abrar Ahmed (Pakistan)- 666
9. Nathan Ellis (Australia)- 660
10. Adam Zampa (Australia)- 655

1-1 Indian all-rounder included in all three formats

Ravindra Jadeja is the world’s number-1 all-rounder in the Test format, he is the only Indian in the top-10 Test all-rounders. There are only 1 Indian each in the top-10 list of ODI and T20. Akshar Patel is at 9th position in ODI and Hardik Pandya is at 5th position in T20. See the top-10 list of batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders in all three formats.

ICC Test all-rounder rankings

1. Ravindra Jadeja (India)- 437
2. Mehdi Hasan (Bangladesh) – 300
3. Ben Stokes (England)- 295
4. Pat Cummins (Australia) – 270
5. Marco Yanson (South Africa) – 254
6. Willem Mulder (South Africa) – 248
7. Mitchell Starc (Australia) – 238
8. Joe Root (England)- 237
9. Gus Atkinson (England)- 236
10. Mitchell Santner (New Zealand)- 225

ICC ODI all-rounder rankings

1. Azmatullah Omarzai (Afghanistan)- 334
2. Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe)- 302
3. Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan)- 285
4. Mehdi Hasan (Bangladesh)- 273
5. Rashid Khan (Afghanistan)- 257
6. Mitchell Santner (New Zealand)- 248
7. Mitchell Bracewell (New Zealand)- 242
8. Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)- 234
9. Akshar Patel (India)- 229
10. Brandon McMullen (Scotland)- 228

ICC T20 all-rounder rankings

1. Sam Ayub (Pakistan)- 280
2. Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe)- 258
3. Roston Chase (West Indies)- 252
4. Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan)- 213
5. Romario Shepherd (West Indies)- 212
6. Hardik Pandya (India)- 211
7. Dipendra Singh Ere (Nepal) – 202
8. Mohammad Nawaz (Pakistan)- 195
9. Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)- 187
10. Azmatullah Omarzai (Afghanistan)- 184

Varun Chakraborty will captain the Tamil Nadu team in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. This T20 tournament would have started between India vs South Africa test series. Tamil Nadu has named Varun Chakraborty as captain and N Jagadeesan as vice-captain in the 16-member squad for the domestic T20 tournament Syed Mushtaq Ali.

This will be the first time that Varun Chakraborty will be captaining the Tamil Nadu team. Chakraborty is continuously performing well for the Indian team in T20 International cricket. After returning to Team India in 2024, Chakraborty has taken 43 wickets in 23 matches. His experience and excellent form in international cricket will help Tamil Nadu to perform better.

Tamil Nadu team has been placed in Elite Group D in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament. Delhi, Saurashtra, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Tripura are also included in this group. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024-25 title was won by Mumbai, while the Tamil Nadu team finished fifth in Group B.

Tamil Nadu squad for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy:

Varun Chakravarthy (Captain), N Jagadeesan (Vice-Captain), Tushar Raheja (WK), Amit Satwik, Shahrukh Khan, Andre Siddharth, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Shivam Singh, R Sai Kishore, M. Siddharth, T Natarajan, Gurjapaneet Singh, A Esakkimuthu, Sonu Yadav, R Silambarasan, Hrithik Easwaran (WK).

Varun Chakraborty is currently playing only T20 matches for the Indian team. BCCI has announced the Indian squad for the Test and ODI series against South Africa. Varun Chakraborty’s name is nowhere present in these.

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Jasprit Bumrah is said to be one of the best bowlers in the world at present. His accuracy in line and length makes him a lethal bowler in all three formats. Former Indian cricketer Subramaniam Badrinath has claimed that spinner Varun Chakraborty is now more important than Bumrah in Team India. Chakraborty was the highest wicket taker for Team India in the recently concluded India-Australia T20 series.

During a discussion on a show on Star Sports, Subramaniam Badrinath said, “The statistics show why Varun Chakravarthy is the No. 1 T20 bowler in the world. He is even more important than Bumrah at the moment. Whenever you are scoring more runs in the powerplay, or have to bowl in the 18th over, Varun is the bowler for you.”

34-year-old Varun Chakraborty has indeed proven to be a very effective bowler in T20 matches. Captain Suryakumar Yadav often brings him in the powerplay and has also been taking wickets on important occasions.

Most wickets for India in 2025

Varun Chakravarthy is the bowler who has taken the highest T20 wickets for India in the year 2025. So far this year, he has taken 26 wickets in 14 innings. Statistics show that he is taking about 2 wickets in every match. After returning to Team India in the year 2024, Varun has played 23 matches, in which he has taken 43 wickets.

World number-one bowler in T20

After returning to the Indian team, he has also got the gift of performing well continuously. He became the world number-1 bowler in T20 International just a few weeks ago. Subramaniam Badrinath says that Varun Chakraborty can prove to be the X factor for the Indian team in the 2026 T20 World Cup.

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After losing the ODI series, the Indian cricket team will now take the field in the T20 series with the intention of taking revenge from the Kangaroos. The first match of the five-match T20 series between India and Australia will be played on Wednesday, October 29 in Canberra. According to Indian time, this match will start at 1:45 pm. Know here with which 11 players the Indian team can take the field in this match.

If we compare Team India with the ODI series, a total of eight players will be out. Apart from this, star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah will be seen in action in the T20 series. Mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty is also sure to be a part of the playing eleven. The command of the team will be in the hands of Suryakumar Yadav. T20’s number-1 batsman Abhishek Sharma will also be seen in action. The 8 players who will not be part of Team India in the first T20 are Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Kumar Reddy, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj. Among them, Nitish and Kuldeep are part of the T20 team, but it is difficult for them to play their first T20.

Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill will be the openers.

The pair of Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill will open the innings for India in the first T20 against Australia. After this, captain Suryakumar Yadav is also certain to play at number three. Tilak Verma will be seen at number four. Tilak has performed brilliantly for India in this format in the last one to one and a half years. He was also the hero of Team India’s victory in the final of the 2025 Asia Cup.

It is almost certain that Sanju Samson will play as wicketkeeper at number five in the first T20. After this two all-rounders will be seen playing. Shivam Dubey and Akshar Patel are the biggest contenders in this. Harshit Rana can be seen at number eight. Along with fast bowling, he can also score useful runs for the team with the bat. After this Varun Chakraborty will be the lead spinner. The remaining two fast bowlers, Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh can be seen in action.

India’s probable playing eleven for the first T20 against Australia- Abhishek Sharma, Shubhman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh.

Complete schedule of India-Australia 5 match T20 series

1st T20 – October 29 – Canberra – 1:45 pm IST
Second T20 – 31 October – Melbourne – 1:45 pm Indian time
3rd T20 – 2 November – Hobart – 1:45 pm IST
4th T20 – 6 November – Gold Coast – 1:45 pm IST
Fifth T20 – November 8 – Gabba – 1:45 pm IST

It has been more than 2 weeks since the Indian cricket team became the Asian champion, but till now it has not been able to get the trophy. In fact, after India’s 5-wicket victory over Pakistan in the final, ACC and PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi took the trophy with them. Now Indian spin bowler Varun Chakraborty has taken a dig at Naqvi in ​​his conversations.

Taunt on PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi!

Varun Chakraborty, during a conversation on ‘Breakfast with Champions’ podcast, said that lifting the trophy did not mean much. This does not change the fact that Team India achieved the title of becoming Asian champion.

Varun Chakraborty said, “I knew that we were going to win all the matches. We are the number-1 team in the world. The cup can be taken away from us, but we are the champions.”

Let us remind you that after the historic victory of the Indian team on September 28, Varun Chakraborty had posted on X and wrote, “Akkha world on one side and my India on one side. Jai Hind.”

We will crush Pakistan, I knew it…

In the Asia Cup 2025, the Indian team had defeated Pakistan not once or twice but thrice. Recalling his thoughts before the final, Varun Chakraborty said, “I knew that we would win, because as soon as we beat them for the second time in the tournament, I knew that we would face each other in the final as well. We were going to win.”

Varun also told about his dream of getting his picture clicked while sleeping with the trophy, but Mohsin Naqvi had taken the trophy with him. In such a situation, Chakraborty had posed for a photo with a coffee cup that felt like the Asia Cup trophy.

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