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Nicholas Pooran and Akeal Hosein during the 3rd ODI match on Wednesday. (ANI Photo/Wind- Shardul Thakur and Shikhar Dhawan celebrate the dismissal of West Indies Sharmarh Brooks
ies Cricket Twitter) during the 2nd ODI match on Sunday. (ANI Photo/ICC Twitter)

137. They lost the match by 119 runs same squad of 16 players will then SHIKHAR DHAWAN RISE in his first six Tests, advanced 23 slots to
reach 16th position with a Pakistan re-
and India completed a 3-0 clean sweep travel to Jamaica for the three-match TO13TH SPOT IN ICC cord of 671 rating points. The previous
of the series. T20I Series against New Zealand at RANKINGS best by a Pakistan batter after six Tests
Chahal finished as the leading Sabina Park that starts from August 10
bowler for India with 4/17. Siraj and to August 14. n the latest update of ICC Men’s was Saeed Ahmed’s 614 rating points
ODI Rankings, Indian opener Shi-
and only two batters have ever had
Thakur also took two wickets. Krishna “We welcome back Hetmyer and Ikhar Dhawan climbed up to a joint more points after six Tests - Sunil Gavas-
and Axar got one scalp each. it is good to see him again in West In- 13th spot in the rankings and batter kar (692) and Donald Bradman (687).
WI SKIPPER POORAN LOOKING dies colours. He will fortify the batting Shreyas Iyer also rose up 20 places, to Left-arm spinner Jayasuriya,
FORWARD TO T20IS group and with his experience and climb to a joint 54th spot after the sec- whose 21 wickets rank him joint-third
adaptability we have a ‘finisher’ who
fter facing a crushing defeat can add value and win matches for the ond ODI match against West Indies in in terms of most wickets after two
Tests, has moved up 11 places to 44th
the three-match ODI series
in the three-match ODI series team and delight the supporters,” Lead
Aagainst India, West Indies skip- Selector, Desmond Haynes said in an Pacer Mohammed Siraj also position with 481 rating points, the
per Nicholas Pooran said that he is official statement released by CWI. climbed into the top 100 of the rankings. fourth highest by any bowler after two
opener
Abdullah
Tests. Narendra Hirwani (519), Alec
Pakistan
looking forward to the upcoming T20I “Everything we do, we have to Shafique and Sri Lanka spinner Pra- Bedser (500) and Bob Massie (494)
series. “It was a tough one for us. We take into consideration we have a big bath Jayasuriya continue to soar in the had higher rating points after two Tests.
did a lot of right things in the first two tournament coming up later this year, ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings after Pakistan captain Babar Azam’s
games. I think we tried up our best, the which is the ICC T20 World Cup, so splendid performances in the first Test scores of 119 and 55 see him overtake
boys performed well. But there were we are planning and gearing up to- of their ICC World Test Championship Australia’s Steve Smith to reach a ca-
a lot of games in a short span of time. wards that event. It is good to give the series in Galle. reer high third ranking with a career
As a batting group, it was going to be a players some exposure to the interna- Abdullah, who was declared Play- best rating of 874 points. Babar is cur-
challenge with DLS coming into play. tional stage and look to find the right er of the Match for his second innings rently top ranked in both ODIs and
We did get some partnerships, but not combinations,” Haynes added. knock of 160 and has amassed 720 runs T20Is and remains the only batter in
as many as we wanted, that cost us the the top 10 of all three lists.
game,” said Pooran in a post-match Fast bowler Shaheen Afridi is an-
presentation. other Pakistan player to gain in the
“We gained a lot in this series af-
ter coming from Guyana. The bowlers latest weekly update, moving up one
place to a career best-equaling third
bowled well in the powerplay, they position after grabbing four wickets in
didn’t get wickets, but that’s fine. The the first innings. Hasan Ali and Yasir
guys are getting more confident with Shah have gained a slot each to reach
every game. Very excited with our T20 13th and 32nd positions, respectively.
team, looking forward to the game on Sri Lanka’s Chandimal has gained
Friday,” he added. 11 slots to reach 18th position after
Cricket West Indies (CWI) men’s
senior selection panel on Thursday scores of 76 and 94 not out while Kusal
Mendis and Oshada Fernando too have
named a 16-player squad for the up- made headway in the Test rankings.
coming T20I series against India and In the ICC Men’s ODI Player
for the three-match T20 International Rankings, South Africa’s Quinton
(T20I) Series against New Zealand. de Kock has progressed two places
The West Indies and India Men’s
teams will go head-to-head in the five- to fourth after his 92 not out in the
third match against England that was
match series, starting on Friday, July washed out by rain, ending the series
29. The five-match series runs until West Indies’ Shai Hope plays a shot during the 2nd ODI match between West Indies and India at 1-1. England fast bowler David
August 7 with games being played in Willey has moved up to 23rd position
Trinidad, St Kitts and Florida. The (ANI Photo/Windies Cricket Twitter)
among bowlers.

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