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Becomes solely fourth Pakistan participant to realize prime rating, after Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf
Pakistan captain Babar Azam is now the No.1-ranked ODI batsman, ending India captain Virat Kohli‘s lengthy reign on the prime of the charts. Babar’s match-winning 82-ball 94 within the third ODI against South Africa helped him achieve 13 score factors to achieve career-best 865 factors.
Azam made a complete of 228 runs in Pakistan’s well-known sequence win in opposition to South Africa, together with a century in the first match in Centurion. That helped him transfer forward of Kohli – who has been No. 1 since displacing AB de Villiers in October 2017 – by a degree, however he dropped to 852 after his rating of 31 within the second ODI and remained at No. 2 by the point of the final weekly rankings replace. After his knock within the third ODI, he gained eight greater than Kohli, to grew to become simply the fourth Pakistan batsman to realize the highest rating after Zaheer Abbas (1983-84), Javed Miandad (1988-89), and Mohammad Yousuf (2003).
“This is another milestone in my career, which will now require even more hard work and absolute consistency with the bat in order for me to hold on to the ranking for an extended period of time,” Azam mentioned.
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Pakistan opener Fakhar Zaman additionally made a leap in
the rankings, shifting 5 positions as much as obtain a career-best seventh place after his knocks of 193 and 101 within the second and third ODI respectively. Left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi, who picked up six wickets within the three matches, rose 4 spots to a career-best eleventh place.
the rankings, shifting 5 positions as much as obtain a career-best seventh place after his knocks of 193 and 101 within the second and third ODI respectively. Left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi, who picked up six wickets within the three matches, rose 4 spots to a career-best eleventh place.
