ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Babar Azam makes a unique and unprecedented recordin the history of World Cricket with his top 5 Rankings in all the threeformats of the Cricket.
Babar Azam’s brilliant 143 against Bangladesh in the first innings of thefirst Test has taken him to a career-best rating of 800 points as he brokeinto the top 5 Test batsmen as per the latest rankings.
The star batsman jumped 2 positions after yet another hundred. The ICC Testrankings for batsmen are still dominated by the Indian captain, ViratKohli, who has 928 points followed by Steven Smith with 911 points.——————————
With the update, the 25-year-old has become the only batsman to be rankedin the top 5 of all the formats. He is currently the number one batsman inT20Is whereas he is ranked at 3rd in the ODI rankings.
Here are the top 5 in all formats:
TestPosPlayerTeamRating*1* *Virat Kohli* *IND* *928*2 Steve Smith AUS 9113 Marnus Labuschagne AUS 8274 Kane Williamson NZ 814*5* *Babar Azam* *PAK* *800*
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ODIPosPlayerTeamRating*1* *Virat Kohli* *IND* *886*2 Rohit Sharma IND 868*3* *Babar Azam* *PAK* *829*4 Francois du Plessis SA 8155 Ross Taylor NZ 810
T20IPosPlayerTeamRating*1* *Babar Azam* *PAK* *879*2 Lokesh Rahul IND 8233 Aaron Finch AUS 8104 Colin Munro NZ 7855 Dawid Malan ENG 782
Babar’s nearest competitor is Virat Kohli, who is the top-ranked batsman inODI and Test cricket, however, he is ranked at 9th in T20I rankings with673 rating points.——————————
A 3-0 clean sweep at the hands of New Zealand, where Kohli scored below-par51, 15 and 9, might cost him rating points in ODI rankings as well. Babar’snext challenge would be to replace him at the top of the remaining twoformats as well.
