Shubman Gill returns to No. 1 in ODI batters' rankings

's 188 runs in the three ODIs against in mid-July, coupled with Daryl Mitchell's injury-enforced absence from the last two ODIs in the , have lifted the captain to the top of the ICC rankings for batters in the format. This is Gill's third stint at the top of that table.Staying with ODIs, while Will Young (up three spots to joint-38th), Sherfane Rutherford (up 13 spots to 45th) and Tom Latham (up five spots to 46th) have gained at the end of the five-match series, the big mover was 's . Scholtz returned remarkable figures of 10-2-21-1 and 10-2-14-0 in CWC League 2 games in Utrecht, and that took him up five places to seventh in the bowling rankings.The major Test-match action over the past week was in Tarouba, where beat by 90 runs in the of their WTC series.

The match belonged to the fast bowlers - all 40 wickets fell to them - and Player of the Match ' seven wickets (including a first-innings five-for) took him up 21 places to No. 48, while , the star of the second Pakistan innings with a five-for, moved up five places to 24th. , the third bowler in the Test to pick up a five for on his way to match returns of 8 for 85, has returned to the top 20 for the first time since 2021, getting to No.

Among the batters, moved up four positions to 15th after an unbeaten 58 in the second innings, while 's 109 in the first innings took him up eight places to 36th. Shai Hope, meanwhile, went from No. 51 to No. , meanwhile, with a Player-of-the-Series performance in the three-T20I series in , scoring 151 runs in three innings at a strike rate of 196.10.

Just six matches old in the format (and in international cricket), the batter jumped 230 places on the table to No.