Former India captain Virat Kohli retained the No. 2 spot in the latest ICC ODI Rankings for Men’s Batters, updated after the end of India’s ODI series in South Africa. Meanwhile, ODI captain Rohit Sharma, who missed India’s tour of South Africa due to a hamstring injury, also held his 3rd spot in the batting charts.
Virat Kohli, who was sacked as India’s captain before the tour of South Africa, hit two fifties but India ended up losing the ODI series 0-3, suffering a clean sweep for the first time in an ODI series in the Rainbow Nation. Kohli hit 116 runs at a strike rate of less than 80 across 3 matches in South Africa. Shikhar Dhawan top-scored for India with 169 runs across 3 matches.
South Africa batters Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen made huge gains after playing a key role in helping the hosts win the ODI series.
De Kock is in the top five for the first time since the World Cup in 2019 after aggregating 229 runs that included a match-winning 124 in the final match in Cape Town. The wicketkeeper-batter has moved up four places after his Player of the Series effort.
Van der Dussen, who scored 218 runs, has advanced 10 places to reach a career-best 10th position. Captain Temba Bavuma has also made huge progress, reaching a career-best 59th position from 80th before the latest weekly update which also includes the Afghanistan-Netherlands series and the last match of the Sri Lanka-Zimbabwe series.
In the bowling charts, Jasprit Bumrah has retained the No. 7 spot in the bowling charts. South Africa’s bowlers too have significant gains in Wednesday’s update. Fast bowler Lungi Ngidi is back in the top 20 after five wickets in the series and spinner Keshav Maharaj is at a career-best 33rd position. Andile Phehlukwayo is up seven places to 52nd after taking six wickets in the series.
