India bowlers on the charge in latest MRF Tyres ICC ODI Player Rankings

Left-arm spinner Patel has broken into the top 10 for the first time in his career after rising five places to ninth, while wrist spinner Mishra has vaulted 25 places to enter the top 20 for the first time to share 12th position with South Africa’s Dale Steyn.

Patel grabbed four wickets in the series, but Mishra, who was adjudged the player of the series, snapped up 15 wickets.

While breaking into the top 10, Patel has also become India’s highest-ranked bowler after Ravichandran Ashwin has slipped three places to 16th after missing the just-concluded series, while Mishra is now his side’s second highest-ranked bowler.

India’s fast bowler Umesh Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah have also made upward movements following the series, which concluded on Saturday.

Yadav took eight wickets in the series which has lifted him from 42nd to 35th position, while Bumrah has been rewarded for his six wickets in four matches with a rise of 29 places that has put him in a career-best 57th position.

Trent Boult of New Zealand, who took six wickets in four matches, leads the field, while Sunil Narine of the West Indies is second and South Africa’s Imran Tahir is third.

The good news for New Zealand are the movements of its fast bowler Tim Southee and opener Tom Latham.

Southee was New Zealand’s leading wicket-taker with seven wickets which have helped him rise three places to 31st, while Latham was the pick of his side’s batsmen with 244 runs. This is reflected in the latest rankings in which the left-hander has jumped 32 places to a career-high 39th position.

Leading batsmen losing ground include Martin Guptill in eighth (down by two places), Rohit Sharma in ninth (down by two places), Ross Taylor in 15th (down by one place) and Ajinkya Rahane in 30th (down by two places).

India’s Virat Kohli finished as the lead run-getter with 358 runs at an average of just under 120, and although he has remained behind AB de Villiers in second place, the former Under-19 player who led India to victory in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2008 in Malaysia has reduced the South African’s lead from 48 points to just 13 points.

There is no change in the top five of the all-rounders’ list, which is headed by Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, fourth-ranked India has reduced the pre-series three-point gap with third-ranked New Zealand to just one point. Had India won the series 4-1, it would have swapped places with New Zealand.

New Zealand will now travel to Australia in December for a three-ODI series, while India’s next ODI assignment is a three-match series against England in January 2017.

MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings (as on 30 October, after India-New Zealand series)

Rank   Team              Points

Australia          118
South Africa   116
New Zealand  112 (-1)
India                111 (+1)
England           107
Sri Lanka         101
Bangladesh     95
Pakistan           89
West Indies     88
Afghanistan    52
Zimbabwe       46
Ireland             42

(Developed by David Kendix)

MRF Tyres ICC ODI Player Rankings (as on 30 October, after India-New Zealand series)

Batsmen (top 10)

Rank      (+/-)        Player                   Team     Pts         Avge      Highest Rating
   1           ( - )          AB de Villiers        SA           861         53.63     902 v NZ at Auckland 2015
   2           ( - )          Virat Kohli            Ind          848         52.93     886 v Ban at Fatullah 2014
   3           ( - )          David Warner       Aus         786!       41.00     786 v SA at Cape Town 2016
   4           ( - )          Quinton de Kock SA           779         43.84     799 v Aus at Centurion 2016
   5           ( - )          Kane Williamson NZ          770         46.71     798 v SA at Centurion 2015
   6           (+2)         Hashim Amla       SA           748         51.33     901 v Eng at Trent Bridge 2012
   7           (+2)         Joe Root                                Eng         747         45.71     776 v Pak at Trent Bridge 2016
   8           (-2)          Martin Guptill       NZ          729         42.35     751 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
   9           (-2)          Rohit Sharma       Ind          728         41.37     761 v Aus at Sydney 2016
  10         (+1)         Faf du Plessis        SA           721         40.90     732 v Aus at Port Elizabeth 2016

Other selected rankings

Rank      (+/-)        Player                   Team     Pts         Avge      Highest Rating
  13         ( - )          MS Dhoni              Ind          704         50.89     836 v Aus at Delhi 2009
  15         (-1)          Ross Taylor          NZ          682         43.15     743 v Zim at Harare 2015
  30         (-2)          Ajinkya Rahane  Ind          599         32.88     630 v Aus at Melbourne 2016
  39         (+32)      Tom Latham        NZ          569!       33.17     569 v Ind at Visakhapatnam 2016
  55         (-6)          Ambati Rayudu   Ind          528*      50.23     541 v Zim at Harare 2016
  57         (-6)          Corey Anderson   NZ          522*      29.91     604 v Ind at Hamilton 2014

Bowlers (top 10)

Rank      (+/-)        Player                   Team     Pts         Avge      Highest Rating
   1           ( - )          Trent Boult           NZ          735         23.89     4.83       766 v Ind at Delhi 2016
   2           ( - )          Sunil Narine          WI          725        26.46     4.12       791 v SL at Jamaica 2013
   3           ( - )          Imran Tahir          SA           712         23.44     4.65       735 v SL at Sydney 2015
   4           ( - )          Mitchell Starc       Aus         690        19.61     4.78       783 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
   5           ( - )          Matt Henry           NZ          661*      22.92     5.43       675 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
   6           ( - )          Shakib Al Hasan Ban        660         27.93     4.32       717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
   7           ( - )          Adil Rashid           Eng         655!       35.17     5.59       655 v Ban at Chittagong 2016
   8           ( - )          Kagiso Rabada    SA           628*      25.11     5.24       646 v Aus at Johannesburg 2016
   9           (+5)         Akshar Patel         Ind          624*!    30.20     4.38       624 v NZ at Visakhapatnam 2016
  10         (-1)          M. Mortaza          Ban        623         30.07     4.70       653 v Zim at Mirpur 2009

Other selected rankings

Rank      (+/-)        Player                 Team       Pts         Avge     Highest Rating
  12         (+25)      Amit Mishra         Ind          618!       23.60     618 v NZ at Visakhapatnam 2016
  35         (+7)         Umesh Yadav      Ind          519         33.35     600 v Ban at Melbourne 2015
  57         (+29)      Jasprit Bumrah    Ind          451*!    14.64     451 v NZ at Visakhapatnam 2016

All-rounders (top five)

Rank      (+/-)        Player                   Team     Pts          Highest Rating
   1           ( - )          Shakib Al Hasan Ban        391        453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
   2           ( - )          Angelo Mathews  SL           352        427 v Eng at Colombo (RPS) 2014
   3           ( - )          Mohammad Nabi               Afg         332        335 v Ban at Mirpur 2016
   4           ( - )          James Faulkner    Aus         315        361 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
   5           ( - )          Mitchell Marsh     Aus         299*/*  302 v WI at Barbados 2016

*indicates provisional rating; a batsman qualifies for a full rating after a minimum of 40 started innings; a bowler qualifies for a full rating after he has conceded 1,500 runs.
!indicates career-highest rating