ICC rankings: Rohit Sharma's reign ends! NZ star becomes World No1 ODI batter

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Rohit Sharma's reign ends! Daryl Mitchell becomes World No.1 ODI batter; 2nd  New Zealander ever   to execute   the feat

Rohit Sharma and Daryl Mitchell

NEW DELHI: New Zealand's Daryl Mitchell has ended Rohit Sharma's tenure astatine the apical of the ICC Men's ODI Batting Rankings, becoming lone the 2nd New Zealander successful past to assertion the No.1 spot. Mitchell's emergence comes connected the backmost of a superb period against the West Indies successful the opening ODI of their ongoing series, his seventh ton successful the format, which propelled him past Rohit and into the premier presumption for the archetypal clip successful his career.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The accomplishment places Mitchell alongside Kiwi large Glenn Turner, the lone different New Zealander to clasp the apical ODI batting fertile backmost successful 1979. While celebrated names specified arsenic Martin Crowe, Andrew Jones, Roger Twose, Nathan Astle,

Kane Williamson

, Martin Guptill, and Ross Taylor each spent clip wrong the apical 5 implicit their glittering careers, nary — until Mitchell — had matched Turner's feat.

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Mitchell's ascent comes amid respective notable changes crossed formats. Pakistan, caller from a 3-0 expanse implicit Sri Lanka, saw aggregate players ascent the ODI lists. Mohammad Rizwan moved up 5 spots to associated 22nd, portion Fakhar Zaman gained 5 places to adjacent 26th among batters. In the bowling charts, Abrar Ahmed surged 11 places to ninth and Haris Rauf jumped to 23rd, though Afghanistan's

Rashid Khan

continues to clasp the apical position.

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The decision of the archetypal India–South Africa Test successful Kolkata triggered a shake-up successful the Test rankings too. South Africa skipper Temba Bavuma broke into the apical 5 Test batters for the archetypal clip aft his composed 55 successful the 2nd innings. India skipper Shubman Gill moved 2 spots to 11th contempt being hampered by wounded during the match. Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto climbed to associated 34th pursuing his period against Ireland, portion Mahmudul Hasan Joy leapt 19 spots to 74th aft scoring his 2nd Test ton.

In bowling,

Jasprit Bumrah

retained his presumption arsenic the No.1 Test bowler pursuing a six-wicket lucifer haul astatine Eden Gardens. Kuldeep Yadav roseate 2 places to a career-best 13th, portion Ravindra Jadeja climbed to 15th. South Africa's Marco Jansen improved to 11th and besides moved to 5th successful Test all-rounders, with Simon Harmer gaining 20 spots to 24th.New Zealand enjoyed further occurrence successful T20Is arsenic Tim Robinson (15th), Devon Conway (48th), and Jacob Duffy (second among bowlers) each made gains. Pakistan's Mohammad Nawaz besides impressed, rising to 27th successful T20I bowling and eighth among all-rounders aft a standout show against Zimbabwe.

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