ICC ODI Rankings 2018: Team India, Now World Beaters; Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah Tops List of Batsman and Bowlers Respectively!
On current form, team India is one of the best teams in World Cricket. Be it home or away, the team under the captaincy of Virat Kohli has flourished and the results and rankings are testimonies to it.
It will be hard for any cricket fan to recall the Indian cricket team ruling the roost in World Cricket in the past. As per the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) Rankings, it seems that India is witnessing a golden period in the cricket history. Be it individual player rankings or team rankings, the Indian flag is flying high in all of them.
Players like Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, are leading the ICC Player rankings, whereas Ravindra Jadeja, Shikhar Dhawan, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Rohit Sharma are featured in the top 10 lists too. In the ICC Team Rankings too, the Indian team is leading in the 50-over format of the game. We, at LatestLY, bring to you, stats and latest rankings that prove that India is at the top of the world, in cricket, now!
India registered a comprehensive victory against South Africa in the six-match ODI series by 5-1, last week. The victory was not only their maiden ODI series but also saw Indian team scale newer heights. It pushed South Africa to the second position in the latest ICC ODI team rankings. Under Virat Kohli’s captaincy, the Indian team has won a total of 9 series in a row; their last ODI series loss was in Australia in the year 2015-16.
India, are currently, the no. 1 ranked ODI side in the world. We look at the latest ICC ODI Team Rankings:
|
Position |
Team | Matches | Points |
Rating |
|
1 |
India | 62 | 7,594 | 122 |
| 2 | South Africa | 59 | 6,911 |
117 |
|
3 |
England | 59 | 6,871 | 116 |
| 4 | New Zealand | 57 | 6,550 |
115 |
|
5 |
Australia | 57 | 6,376 | 112 |
| 6 | Pakistan | 51 | 4,877 |
96 |
|
7 |
Bangladesh | 39 | 3,518 | 90 |
| 8 | Sri Lanka | 72 | 6,063 |
84 |
|
9 |
West Indies | 43 | 3,260 | 76 |
| 10 | Afghanistan | 38 | 2,102 |
55 |
|
11 |
Zimbabwe | 50 | 2,492 | 50 |
| 12 | Ireland | 28 | 1,240 |
44 |
Team India wasn’t successful in the first leg of their tour in Africa as they faltered to a 1-2 series defeat. However, it didn’t affect the rankings much as prior to this Test series loss, India had a winning run of 9 series, again; their last Test series loss was in 2014-15 against Australia. India is currently ranked no. 1 Test team too. The latest ICC Test Team Rankings are:
|
Position |
Team | Matches | Points |
Rating |
|
1 |
India | 44 | 5,313 | 121 |
| 2 | South Africa | 39 | 4,484 |
115 |
|
3 |
Australia | 40 | 4,174 | 104 |
| 4 | England | 35 | 3,489 |
100 |
|
5 |
New Zealand | 49 | 4,829 | 99 |
| 6 | Sri Lanka | 46 | 4,374 |
95 |
|
7 |
Pakistan | 34 | 2,988 | 88 |
| 8 | West Indies | 36 | 2,606 |
72 |
|
9 |
Bangladesh | 26 | 1,833 | 71 |
| 10 | Zimbabwe | 14 | 12 |
1 |
India captain Virat Kohli surpassed a lot of records in the recently concluded ODI series against the Proteas. Kohli has now become the second batsman after South Africa’s AB de Villiers to cross 900-point mark concurrently in both formats of Cricket. Other Indians in the Top 10 list are Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. Kohli is also the top-rank player in the latest ICC ODI Batsman Rankings:
|
Position |
Player | Team |
Rating |
|
1 |
Virat Kohli | India | 909 |
| 2 | AB de Villiers | South Africa |
844 |
|
3 |
David Warner | Australia | 823 |
| 4 | Babar Azam | Pakistan |
813 |
|
5 |
Joe Root | England | 808 |
| 6 | Rohit Sharma | India |
799 |
|
7 |
Quinton de Kock | South Africa | 783 |
| 8 | Francois du Plessis | South Africa |
782 |
|
9 |
Kane Williamson | New Zealand | 777 |
| 10 | Shikhar Dhawan | India |
769 |
Jasprit Bumrah didn’t get a heap of wickets in the South Africa ODI series, but did chip in with vital contributions. Bumrah had a splendid last year and is continuously helping Indian team in the starting overs. Bumrah, currently, is the top-ranked ODI bowler as per the latest ICC ODI Bowler Rankings. Along with him, Rashid Khan, 19-year-old wonder from Afghanistan, is the joint top-rank bowler in the list. The list of top ODI bowlers is as follows:
|
Position |
Player | Team |
Rating |
|
1 |
Jasprit Bumrah | India | 787 |
| 2 | Rashid Khan | Afghanistan |
787 |
|
3 |
Trent Boult | New Zealand | 729 |
| 4 | Josh Hazlewood | Australia |
714 |
|
5 |
Hasan Ali | Pakistan | 711 |
| 6 | Imran Tahir | South Africa |
683 |
|
7 |
Kagiso Rabada | South Africa | 679 |
| 8 | Yuzvendra Chahal | India |
667 |
|
9 |
Mitchell Santner | New Zealand | 662 |
| 10 | Mitchell Starc | Australia |
658 |
On current form, team India is one of the best teams in World Cricket. Be it home or away, the team under the captaincy of Virat Kohli has flourished and the results and rankings are testimonies to it. Somewhere down the line, India’s past captains MS Dhoni and Saurav Ganguly would be smiling!
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Feb 21, 2018 07:26 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).