Hazlewood's breath on Boult's neck, De Kock and Rohit stepped forward

 

New Zealand pacer Trent Boult in practice:AFP

Trent Boult is breathing down Josh Hazlewood's neck at the top of the ICC ODI bowlers' rankings. The gap between the two is now just one rating point. Quinton de Kock and Rohit Sharma have jumped in the batsmen rankings, with Babar Azam at the top. In the all-rounder ranking, Shakib Al Hasan is at the top as before, despite a change in position.

Before the October 13 match against Bangladesh, New Zealand pacer Bolt was at number 3 with 650 rating points. Boult took 2 wickets against Bangladesh, after dismissing Liton Das on the first ball, he returned to Tawhid Hriday too. After this performance, the left-handed pacer moved to the top of India's Mohammad Siraj. Bolt (659) is now only 1 rating point behind Australia's Hazlewood (660), who is at the top of the rankings. Bolt was last at the top of the ranking in January this year. Siraj's rating point is 656 at number three, Afghan leg spinner Rashid Khan (654) at number four is not far behind. Rashid has advanced two steps to reach number four.

Bolt took 2 wickets against Bangladesh :AFP

South Africa's Keshav Maharaj has made a bigger jump, the left-arm spinner has moved up seven places to join Afghanistan's Mujib ur Rehman at number 5. Both have 644 rating points. Apart from this, India's Yashpreet Bumrah and South Africa's Kagiso Rabada have moved up to number 14 by seven steps. Rabada's teammate Lungi Ngidi moved up six places to 16th.De Kock and Rohit have jumped in the batting rankings. South Africa's opener de Kock, who started the tournament with two consecutive centuries, was dismissed for 20 runs against the Netherlands yesterday. However, he has moved into third place ahead of team-mate Resi von der Dussen, who has a rating of 742 points.

Rohit has taken a big leap :AFP

Rohit's improvement is more. After scoring 131 runs against Afghanistan, the Indian captain's innings of 86 runs from 63 balls against Pakistan moved up five steps to number 6. He has 719 rating points. Afghanistan opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Netherlands captain Scott Edwards have also made notable improvements outside the top 10. Gurbaz has moved up 19 steps to number 18, Edwards has moved up 16 steps to move up to number 27 with his match-winning innings of 78 runs from 69 balls against South Africa. However, Babar, who is at the top, has increased his rating points further, the difference between Pakistan captain (835) and Shubman Gill (822), who scored a fifty against India, is now 13 points.

Shakib's rating points at the top of the all-rounder rankings remain the same—343. New Zealand's Mitchell Santner moved up one place to joint sixth here, with Australia's Glenn Maxwell three places ahead.

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