Struggling opener Saim Ayub slips to 55th position in latest rankings
\nDuabi
\nPakistan\u2019s Abrar Ahmed and Sahibzada Farhan have achieved notable gains in the latest ICC T20I player rankings, following their recent performances in the ongoing ACC Men\u2019s T20 Asia Cup 2025.
\nSpinner Abrar Ahmed made the biggest headlines, jumping 12 places to break into the top five for the first time.
\nIn the batting charts, opening batter Farhan rose 31 places to 24th position with 589 points. His climb follows a crucial knock of 58 runs in Pakistan\u2019s recent Super Four clash against India.
\nSkipper Salman Ali Agha and opener Fakhar Zaman also improved, moving up three places each to 64th and 66th respectively.
\nMeanwhile, senior duo Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan continued to slip down the charts, having last featured in a T20I for Pakistan in 2024. Babar dropped nine places to 35th, while Rizwan fell five spots to 38th.
\nStruggling opener Saim Ayub slid eight places to 55th, middle-order batter Hasan Nawaz dropped 11 spots to 58th, and wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Haris slipped one place to 90th.
\nIndia\u2019s Abhishek Sharma retained his position as the No. 1 T20I batter, followed by England\u2019s Phil Salt in second, while Tilak Varma leapfrogged Jos Buttler to claim third.
\nHe now sits in fourth with 703 points, edging closer to a top-three finish.
\nPacers Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf also rose in the standings, climbing to 25th and 28th, respectively, after strong performances in recent matches.
\nHowever, not all bowlers fared well. Spinner Sufiyan Muqeem slipped three places to 14th, Mohammad Nawaz dropped 13 spots to 46th, and pacer Abbas Afridi fell three places to 44th.
\nIndia\u2019s Varun Chakaravarthy remains the top-ranked T20I bowler, followed by New Zealand\u2019s Jacob Duffy in second and the West Indies\u2019 Akeal Hosein in third.
\nIn the all-rounders\u2019 rankings, Saim Ayub held on to his fifth position with 201 points, while Mohammad Nawaz rose one place to 17th.
\nShadab Khan dropped five places to 35th, while Faheem Ashraf surged 12 places to 39th. Shaheen Afridi and Agha Salman both climbed 14 and 11 places respectively, now tied at 71st.
\nIndia\u2019s Hardik Pandya continues to lead the all-rounders\u2019 chart, with Afghanistan\u2019s Mohammad Nabi second and Zimbabwe\u2019s Sikandar Raza third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Struggling opener Saim Ayub slips to 55th position in latest rankings Duabi Pakistan\u2019s Abrar Ahmed and Sahibzada Farhan have achieved notable gains in the latest ICC T20I player rankings, following their recent performances in the ongoing ACC Men\u2019s T20 Asia Cup 2025. Spinner Abrar Ahmed made the biggest headlines, jumping 12 places to break into …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87276","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\/87276","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=87276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87291,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87276\/revisions\/87291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}