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Babar Azam Overtakes Virat Kohli as Top Ranked ODI Batsman

Babar Azam now has 865 points followed by Kohli (857) and Rohit Sharma (825).

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Pakistan’s Babar Azam has overtaken Indian captain Virat Kohli as the top ranked ODI batsman as per ICC’s latest rankings.

By ending Kohli’s 1,258 day-supremacy, Babar has emulated compatriots Zaheer Abbas (1983-84), Javed Miandad (1988-89), and Mohammad Yousuf (2003) as the number one ODI batsman. In Tests, Babar has attained a best of fifth position and is currently ranked sixth while in T20Is he is third but has been number one in the past.

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Babar was able to go past Kohli after he finished as the second-highest scorer in the recently concluded South Africa series with 228 runs, only behind Fakhar Zaman’s 302.

Azam now has 865 points followed by Kohli (857) and Rohit Sharma (825). Rounding off the top five are New Zealand’s Ross Taylor with 801 points and Aaron Finch with 791 points.

The 26-year-old’s player of the match effort of an 82-ball 94 in the last match of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League series against South Africa in Centurion has helped him gain 13 rating points to reach 865 points and he now leads the Indian captain by eight points.

Babar, a star of the ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cups in 2010 and 2012 and who has been playing ODIs since 2015, had started the series against South Africa at 837 rating points but moved up to 858 (ahead of Kohli) after his score of 103 in the first match. He dropped to 852 by the time of the last weekly rankings update with a score of 32 in the second ODI.

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