Pakistan’s all-format captain, Babar Azam led his side to a historic serieswin against Australia. Babar finished as the second-highest run-scorer inthe series with 276 runs and bagged the player of the series award for hisexceptional performances.
As a result of his record-breaking performances, the number one ODI batterin the world further extended his lead at the top of the ICC ODI batterrankings and achieved his career-best rating points.
Not only did Babar widen the gap with second-placed Virat Kohli, but healso leapfrogged the likes of legendary batters including Sachin Tendulkarand Michael Bevan in the all-time ODI batter rankings.
Babar is currently on 891 rating points while Tendulkar had achieved 887 ashis highest ever rating points during the course of his career. Babar iscurrently 15th on the list of all-time rankings in the 50-over format.Legendary West Indian batter, Sir Vivian Richards leads the standings with935 rating points.
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Former Pakistani batter, Zaheer Abbas is second on the all-time list withthe highest rating of 931 points. Legendary batter, Javed Miandad is theother Pakistani player in the top 10.
Here are the all-time ODI rankings:*Ranking* *Player* *Team* *Rating Points*1 Sir Vivian Richards West Indies 9352 Zaheer Abbas Pakistan 9313 Greg Chappell Australia 9214 David Gower England 9195 Dean Jones Australia 9186 Virat Kohli India 9117 Javed Miandad Pakistan 9108 Brian Lara West Indies 9089 AB de Villiers South Africa 90210 Hashim Amla South Africa 90111 Desmond Haynes West Indies 90012 Gary Kirsten South Africa 90013 Allan Lamb England 89714 Gordon Greenidge West Indies 895*15* *Babar Azam* *Pakistan* *891*16 Sachin Tendulkar India 88717 Michael Bevan Australia 88518 Rohit Sharma India 88519 David Warner Australia 88020 Kepler Wessels South Africa 872link
