LAHORE – Pakistan captain Babar Azam Wednesday officially dethroned Indiancaptain Virat Kohli as the top-ranked ODI batsman in the world.

According to the latest ICC ODI rankings, the 26-year-old now placed as thetop ODI batsman with 865 points while India’s Virat Kholi is at the number2 with 857 points.

The milestone of right-handed batsman ended Kohli’s five-year reign – whotopped the ranking since 2017.

This is the first time that Babar has been ranked as the number one ODIbatsman in the world and the second Pakistani to bagged the title. Earlier,Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf topped the ODI batting rankings in 2003.

Meanwhile, Fakhar Zaman also entered the top ten in ODI rankings. The31-year-old Left-Handed Batsman is now ranked 7 in the rankings after hisback-to-back centuries against South Africa in the last two ODIs of theseries.