Opening batter climbs 187 places to 45th after scoring consecutive half-centuries in Sri Lanka T20Is
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\nPakistan\u2019s Maaz Sadaqat and Salman Mirza have climbed the latest ICC Men\u2019s T20I rankings following their impressive performances in the recently concluded three-match series against Sri Lanka, which Pakistan won 2-1.
\nSadaqat was among the biggest movers in the batters\u2019 rankings after scoring consecutive half-centuries, including a magnificent 96 in the second T20I. The young top-order batter climbed 187 places to 45th with 533 rating points.
\nPakistan captain Sahibzada Farhan retained third place with 883 points and is closing in on India\u2019s Abhishek Sharma, who occupies second position, while Ishan Kishan continues to lead the rankings.
\nMeanwhile, opener Saim Ayub slipped four places to 42nd with 550 points. Former captain Babar Azam dropped three places to 48th, while Hasan Nawaz also fell three spots to 51st.
\nSalman Ali Agha moved down eight places to 56th with 520 points, whereas experienced batter Fakhar Zaman climbed one place to 81st with 473 points.
\nIn the T20I bowlers\u2019 rankings, Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed dropped out of the top three, slipping to fourth with 695 points.
\nAfghanistan\u2019s Rashid Khan retained the top position, while Australia\u2019s Adam Zampa moved up to second. England\u2019s Adil Rashid occupied third place.
\nPakistan pacer Salman Mirza made notable progress, climbing nine places to 14th with 635 points.
\nSpinner Mohammad Nawaz dropped six places to 18th with 626 points, while left-arm pacer Shaheen Afridi slipped four spots to 40th.
\nElsewhere, spinner Sufiyan Muqeem fell three places to 53rd, while all-rounder Saim Ayub climbed eight spots to 54th. Usman Tariq dropped four places to 67th, whereas Shadab Khan improved three places to 74th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Opening batter climbs 187 places to 45th after scoring consecutive half-centuries in Sri Lanka T20Is rawalpindi Pakistan\u2019s Maaz Sadaqat and Salman Mirza have climbed the latest ICC Men\u2019s T20I rankings following their impressive performances in the recently concluded three-match series against Sri Lanka, which Pakistan won 2-1. Sadaqat was among the biggest movers in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104375,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104343\/revisions\/104375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}