ICC Rankings: Afghan star Omarzai at main amongst ODI all-rounders, Virat rises to 4th in batters’ itemizing

Dubai (UAE): Throughout the latest ICC ODI Rankings, two massive strikes involved Afghanistan all-rounder and ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year 2024Azmatullah Omarzai reaching the first spot amongst all-rounders and star India batter Virat Kohli transferring to amount 4 amongst batters. The emergence of world-class experience Azmatullah Omarzai has been fast and furious. The Afghanistan all-rounder, who will flip merely 25 later this month, is now on the prime. Following a blistering ICC Champions Trophy 2025 advertising and marketing marketing campaign, which included a maiden five-wicket haul in direction of England and a fifty in direction of Australia, Omarzai has develop into the world’s top-ranked all-rounder.

Throughout the CT 2025, Omarzai scored 126 runs in three innings at a median of 42.00, with an attacking 41 and five-wicket haul in direction of England and a resilient 67 in direction of Australia throughout the rain-hit remaining league stage match being the standouts. He scored his runs at a strike cost of over 104. He moreover took seven wickets in three matches at a median of 20.00, with best figures of 5/58.
He moreover dethroned teammate Mohammad Nabi throughout the course of, who drops to second on the itemizing. The proper-armer rose two spots and claimed a career-high rating components full of 296.India’s Axar Patel was the alternative large all-rounder rise, transferring up 17 spots to thirteenth and registering a career-high 194 rankings components.

Omarzai was moreover one in all many key climbers throughout the latest ODI batter rankings, off the once more of his 126 full runs throughout the Champions Trophy. He moved up 12 spots to twenty fourth (598 rating components).Afghanistan’s Champions Trophy advertising and marketing marketing campaign allowed loads of their stars to blossom, as Ibrahim Zadran moreover made a daring climb up the batting rankings. The 23-year-old smashed 177 runs in direction of England in Lahore, transferring up 13 spots into tenth (676 rating components).Australia’s Steve Smith moreover collected a terrific dose of rating components, climbing six spots to sixteenth after his batting contributions on the Champions Trophy, which included a half-century in direction of India. One different high-profile veteran, Kiwi Kane Williamson, moreover made a switch, climbing eight spots to twenty ninth, following a gutsy 81 in direction of India at Dubai.

India opener Shubman Gill stays throughout the amount 4 ranking for ODI batters, with teammate Virat Kohli transferring as a lot as fourth following his Participant of the Match heroics in direction of Australia throughout the Champions Trophy semi-final in Dubai.

Throughout the ongoing Champions Trophy, Virat is the third-highest run-getter, with 217 runs in 4 innings at a median of 72.33, with a century and a fifty.

New Zealander Matt Henry has been rewarded for his glorious occasion, rising three spots and onto the podium of the bowling rankings.

Henry is now in third (649 rating components), behind Sri Lankan spinner Maheesh Theekshana (first) and South Africa tweaker Keshav Maharaj (second).

The resurgence of Indian seamer Mohammed Shami on the Champions Trophy sees him switch up three spots to eleventh (609 rating components), whereas South Africa’s Marco Jansen (up 9 spots to 18th) and England’s Jofra Archer (up 13 spots to equal nineteenth).