India's Ruturaj Gaikwad has made it to the top ten of ICC Men's T20I Batting Rankings after his brisk innings against Zimbabwe. The 77 off 47 balls, which remains unbeaten, takes him 13 places up the rankings table to the seventh position in India's emphatic 100-run victory, a marvellous rise to underpin his rising stature in the T20 format.
He is joined by compatriots Rinku Singh and Abhishek Sharma in their ranking's ascent. Singh, who was an outstanding reserve player during India's T20 World Cup success, has moved four spots up to 39th following the blistering 48 not out from 22 balls he did. The other, Abhishek Sharma, made a memorable entrance into the chart at 75th place; he hit a hurricane century off just 47 balls in the second T20I.
In the bowling, Ravi Bishnoi had some exciting performances as he picked up six wickets in the first two matches against Zimbabwe and zoomed eight spots up to 14th in the bowlers' rankings. Brian Bennett of Zimbabwe climbed 25 places to 96th after providing some entertainment with his truly blistering knocks of 22 off 15 and 26 off 9 in the series.
In the bowlers' rankings, Zimbabwe's Blessing Muzarabani is up eight places to 55th after his valuable 1/17 in the first T20I helped seal victory for Zimbabwe.
In the all-rounder rankings, Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga rose up to number one, and India's Washington Sundar breezed into the top 50 with all-round effect in the series against Zimbabwe.
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