Team India skipper Virat Kohli, during the recently-concluded five-match series against West Indies, broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record to become the fastest to 10,000-run milestone and slammed three centuries in the first three games. Consequently, with 899 points, Kohli retained the top spot in the latest rankings for batsmen released by the ICC on Friday. Kohli, who is the leading ODI run-scorer of 2018 with 1202 runs in 14 matches, scored a staggering 453 of those in the five matches against the Windies.
Kohli’s deputy Rohit Sharma, who is at No.2 with a career-high 871 points, is not too far behind his skipper. Ambati Rayudu, who showed promise at two-down in the batting order, moved up by 24 places to No.48 with a career-best 553 points.
On the bowlers’ list, Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravindra Jadeja moved up after an impressive show against the Windies.
Jadeja jumped 16 places to sit at No.25, while Chahal moved up by three places to enter the top 10 for the first time at joint No.8 with England’s Adil Rashid.
