Former captain Babar Azam slips one place to 30 in T20I batters\u2019 rankings
\nIslamabad
\nPakistan\u2019s spinner Abrar Ahmed, opener Saim Ayub, and short-format skipper Salman Ali Agha have risen in the ICC T20I rankings after their outstanding performances in the tri-series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
\nIn the T20I batters\u2019 rankings, Ayub has moved up two places to 35th with 554 rating points, while Agha has made significant progress, jumping 11 spots to reach 52nd with 507 points.
\nSeveral other Pakistani batters, however, have experienced a downturn. Opener Farhan has slipped two places to sixth with 752 points.
\nFormer captain Babar Azam is down one place to 30th, wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan has dropped eight spots to 54th, and Fakhar Zaman has fallen six places to 63rd.
\nMiddle-order batter Hassan Nawaz has also dropped five places to 81st, while another wicketkeeper-batter has slipped to 93rd after a five-place decline.
\nIndia\u2019s Abhishek Sharma continues to lead the T20I batting rankings, followed by England\u2019s Phil Salt in second place and Sri Lanka\u2019s Pathum Nissanka in third.
\nIn the T20I bowlers\u2019 rankings, Ahmed has achieved a career-best fourth position after rising four places, placing him just behind Afghanistan skipper Rashid Khan, who sits third.
\nIndia\u2019s Varun Chakaravarthy remains the top-ranked T20I bowler, with New Zealand\u2019s Jacob Duffy in second.
\nPakistan\u2019s Mohammad Nawaz has risen two spots to 11th with 647 points.
\nShaheen Afridi has retained his 18th position, while pacer Salman Mirza has climbed four places to 34th. Saim Ayub also made progress in the bowling charts, jumping 12 spots to 39th.
\nMeanwhile, Haris Rauf and Faheem Ashraf have dropped six and five places to 52nd and 58th, respectively.
\nIn the T20I all-rounders\u2019 rankings, Saim Ayub has reclaimed the top spot, pushing Zimbabwe\u2019s Sikandar Raza to second. West Indies\u2019 Roston Chase sits third.
\nMohammad Nawaz has jumped three places to claim fourth position with 218 points. Faheem Ashraf has fallen two places to 37th, while Pakistan\u2019s vice-captain Shadab Khan has dropped six spots to 44th.
\nSalman Ali Agha has climbed eight places to 61st with 64 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former captain Babar Azam slips one place to 30 in T20I batters\u2019 rankings Islamabad Pakistan\u2019s spinner Abrar Ahmed, opener Saim Ayub, and short-format skipper Salman Ali Agha have risen in the ICC T20I rankings after their outstanding performances in the tri-series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. In the T20I batters\u2019 rankings, Ayub has moved up …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":90532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90528","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\/90528","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=90528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90544,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90528\/revisions\/90544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}