AB de Villiers regains top ODI ranking

De Villiers’s 262 runs in the series, including a highest of 85 in the third ODI at Wellington, have helped him overtake Australia opener David Warner at the top of the ladder, reclaiming the top spot within two months of losing it to India captain Virat Kohli.

De Villiers is on 875 points, four points ahead of Warner and 23 clear of Kohli in the rankings released today that take into account performances in 15 ODIs, also including West Indies’ 3-0 loss to England, Afghanistan’s 3-2 win over Zimbabwe and Ireland’s 2-0 verdict over the United Arab Emirates.

It is for the 10th time that the 33-year-old de Villiers is at the top of the rankings since first taking the spot in May 2010. He has never been ranked outside the top five since September 2009.

England batsmen Joe Root and Alex Hales are major gainers as they have reached career-best rankings after the series in the Caribbean. Root has reached fourth spot after scoring 195 runs including 101 in the final match in Bridgetown. Hales, who knocked up 110 in the same match, his fifth century in the last 20 ODIs, has gained four spots to reach 16th position.

Other batsmen to make upward movement include the New Zealand pair of Martin Guptill (up two places to seventh rank) and Ross Taylor (up two places to 14th) and the Ireland pair of Ed Joyce (up one place to 28th) and Kevin O’Brien (up three places to 40th).

In the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers led by South Africa’s Imran Tahir, his team-mate Kagiso Rabada has broken into the top five for the first time after taking eight wickets in four matches against New Zealand. Rabada has leapfrogged Josh Hazlewood and Shakib Al Hasan even as Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi has also gained three spots to reach a career-best seventh rank.

England all-rounder Chris Woakes’s seven wickets against the West Indies see him break into the top 10 for the first time as he has moved up nine places to ninth slot while his team-mate Liam Plunkett’s 10 wickets in the series have helped him move up 36 places to 23rd rank.

New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner has broken into the top 20 for the first time after his five wickets against South Africa. He is not the only left-arm spinner to gain in the rankings as Hamza Hotak of Afghanistan (up 10 places to 22nd) and Ireland’s George Dockrell (up seven places to 34th) have also made upward movement.

Meanwhile, England’s 3-0 win over the West Indies sees it gain one point to reach 108 points but it remains in fifth position. The West Indies also remains in ninth position but the result means it is now five points behind Pakistan’s tally of 89 points, making its task of qualifying directly for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 stiffer.

England and the seven highest-ranked sides on the MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings as on Sept 30 will qualify directly for the ICC’s pinnacle 50-over tournament, while the remaining four sides will progress from the 10-team ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018.

Bangladesh, which is on 91 points, gets a chance to improve its ranking points in an upcoming three-ODI series in Sri Lanka while Afghanistan and Ireland feature in a five-match ODI series later this month.

The ODI team rankings, unlike the Test rankings, are updated after each match. The ICC ODI predictor function is available here.

Forthcoming matches:

Afghanistan v Ireland

15 March – 1st ODI, Greater Noida
17 March – 2nd ODI, Greater Noida
19 March – 3rd ODI, Greater Noida
22 March – 4th ODI, Greater Noida
24 March – 5th ODI, Greater Noida

Sri Lanka v Bangladesh

25 March – 1st ODI, Dambulla
28 March – 2nd ODI, Dambulla
1 April – 3rd ODI, Colombo

MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings (as of 10 March 2017, after West Indies-England series)
Rank    Team               Points
1.     South Africa      119
2.     Australia            118
3.     New Zealand     113
4.     India                   112
5.     England              108 (+1)
6.     Sri Lanka             98
7.     Bangladesh         91
8.     Pakistan              89
9.     West Indies         84 (-2)
10.  Afghanistan         53
11.  Zimbabwe           48
12.  Ireland                 42

(Developed by David Kendix)

MRF Tyres ICC ODI Player Rankings (as of 10 March, including West Indies v England, New Zealand v South Africa, Afghanistan v Zimbabwe and UAE v Ireland series)

Batsmen (top 20)

Rank    (+/-)      Player              Team   Pts      Avge    Highest Rating
   1       (+1)      AB de Villiers     SA        875      54.28    902 v NZ at Auckland 2015
   2       (-1)       David Warner    Aus      871      44.84    880 v Pak at Adelaide 2017
   3       ( - )       Virat Kohli         Ind       852      53.11    886 v Ban at Fatullah 2014
   4       (+4)      Joe Root           Eng      787!     47.77    787 v WI at Barbados 2017
   5       (-1)       Faf du Plessis   SA        781      43.81    791 v SL at Cape Town 2017
   6       (-1)       Q. de Kock       SA        780      43.64    803 v NZ at Wellington 2017
   7       (+2)      Martin Guptill    NZ        777      43.66    789 v SA at Hamilton 2017
   8       (-2)       K. Williamson    NZ        758      45.91    798 v SA at Centurion 2015
   9=     (+1)      Babar Azam      Pak      733*!   53.09    733 v Aus at Adelaide 2017
            (+1)      Steve Smith      Aus      733      43.67    752 v Pak at Sydney 2017
  11      (-5)       Hashim Amla    SA        726      50.21    901 v Eng at Trent Bridge 2012
  12      ( - )       Rohit Sharma    Ind       717      41.37    761 v Aus at Sydney 2016
  13      ( - )       MS Dhoni          Ind       712      50.96    836 v Aus at Delhi 2009
  14      (+2)      Ross Taylor      NZ        694      43.57    743 v Zim at Harare 2015
  15      (-1)       S. Dhawan        Ind       690      42.91    794 v SA at Melbourne 2015
  16      (+4)      Alex Hales        Eng      676*!   38.28    676 v WI at Barbados 2017
  17      ( - )       Jason Roy        Eng      660*    40.31    664 v WI at Antigua 2017
  18      (-4)       Jos Buttler        Eng      659      36.34    723 v Ban at Mirpur 2016
  19      (-2)       M. Rahim          Ban      648      31.92    671 v Zim at Mirpur 2015
  20      (+2)      Eoin Morgan     Ire/Eng 631      37.71    690 v Aus at The Oval 2010
 

Other selected rankings

Rank    (+/-)      Player              Team   Pts      Avge    Highest Rating
28=      (+1)      Ed Joyce          Eng/Ire 592      37.67    618 v Afg at Belfast 2016
36        (+5)      Ben Stokes       Eng      570       29.61   573 v WI at Antigua 2017
40        (+3)      Kevin O'Brien    Ire        556       32.11   602 v Net at Amstelveen 2013

Bowlers (top 20)

Rank    (+/-)      Player              Team   Pts      Avge   Eco     Highest Rating
1         ( - )       Imran Tahir       SA        750      23.65   4.63     786 v SL at Johannesburg 2017
2=       (+1)      Sunil Narine      WI        700      26.46   4.12     791 v SL at Jamaica 2013
            (+2)      Mitchell Starc    Aus      700      19.89   4.82     783 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
4         (-2)       Trent Boult        NZ        697      24.85   4.98     766 v Ind at Delhi 2016
5         (+2)      K. Rabada        SA        686*!   25.29   5.11     686 v NZ at Auckland 2017
6         (-1)       J. Hazlewood    Aus      684*!   25.18   4.65     684 v NZ at Hamilton 2017
7         (+3)      M. Nabi              Afg      653!     31.25   4.24     653 v Zim at Harare 2017
8         (-2)       S. Al Hasan       Ban      643      28.07   4.36     717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
9         (+9)      Chris Woakes   Eng      636!     32.60   5.60     636 v WI at Barbados 2017
10        (-3)       Matt Henry        NZ        619*    25.10   5.69     675 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
11        ( - )       Akshar Patel     Ind       615*    30.20   4.38     624 v NZ at Visakhapatnam 2016
12        ( - )       M. Mortaza       Ban      614      30.33   4.71     653 v Zim at Mirpur 2009
13        ( - )       Amit Mishra      Ind       609*    23.60   4.72     618 v NZ at Visakhapatnam 2016
14        (-5)       Adil Rashid        Eng      604      35.36   5.64     655 v Ban at Chittagong 2016
15        ( - )       Jason Holder     WI        601      31.81   5.45     604 v SL at Bulawayo 2016
16        (-2)       Dale Steyn        SA        588      26.62   4.94     746 v Ind at Durban 2013
17        (+6)      M. Santner        NZ        586*    34.82   5.03     598 v SA at Hamilton 2017
18        (-1)       M. Irfan             Pak      583      30.71   4.91     641 v UAE at Napier 2015
19        (-3)       Morne Morkel    SA        580      24.60   4.95     717 v SL at East London 2012
20        (-1)       R. Ashwin         Ind       579      32.37   4.91     691 v SL at Hambantota 2012

Other selected rankings

Rank    (+/-)      Player                Team Pts      Avge   Eco       Highest Rating
  22      (+10)    Hamza Hotak    Afg       569*!   20.28   3.76     569 v Zim at Harare 2017
  23      (+36)    Liam Plunkett    Eng      566*!   32.16   5.89     566 v WI at Barbados 2017
  33      (+7)      G. Dockrell        Ire        530       31.70   4.44     589 v WI at Nelson 2015
  34      (+8)      Rashid Khan     Afg       529*    18.13   4.01     539 v Zim at Harare 2017
  37      (+12)    Tendai Chatara Zim       521       31.56   4.99     562 v Ire at Hobart 2015
  45      (+6)      Chris Morris      SA        497*    32.96   5.52     500 v NZ at Hamilton 2017

All-rounders (top five)

Rank    (+/-)      Player                          Team   Pts      Highest Rating
  1        ( - )       Shakib Al Hasan            Ban      377      453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
  2        ( - )       Mohammad Nabi           Afg       349!     349 v Zim at Harare 2017
  3        ( - )       Angelo Mathews            SL        318      427 v Eng at Colombo (RPS) 2014
  4        ( - )       Mohammad Hafeez       Pak      313      438 v Ind at Kolkata 2013
  5        ( - )       James Faulkner              Aus     308      361 v NZ at Melbourne 2015