ICC T20 Rankings: Haris Rauf T20 Ranking: After taking 10 wickets in 3 matches against New Zealand, Pakistan’s premier pacer Haris Rauf has moved past his teammate Shadab Khan to become the top-ranked Pakistan bowler in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Bowler Rankings. With 657 points Rauf is placed at the 11th position, this comes after his taking back-to-back four-wicket and winning the Player of the Match award in the 1st match. Pakistan currently lead the T20I series 2-1 with two matches still left. Follow ICC T20 Rankings Updates with InsideSport.IN
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Changes in ICC T20 Rankings
The series has been Rauf move 5 spots up while Shabad Khan moves 2 spots down to 13.
This is also Rauf’s career-high rating and he can potentially enter the top 10 by the end of the five-match series.
Meanwhile, Ish Sodhi (620) and Shaheen Afridi (624) have also moved up by four places and two places respectively with the others around them dropping points.
Sri Lankan team moves ahead
The other big movement in the rankings came from Sri Lanka with Prabath Jayasuriya continuing his magical start to red-ball cricket. The left-arm spinner picked up a ten-wicket match haul against Ireland in the first Test, his second such figures in a very short six-match Test career.
Jayasuriya has 43 wickets in six Tests already with five five-wicket hauls. A career-best seven-wicket haul in the Galle Test against Ireland ensured he moved up by 13 places in the ICC Test bowling rankings to enter the top 20.
While achieving career-best ratings of 669, Jayasuriya also became the top-ranked Sri Lankan bowler in Test cricket. Ramesh Mendis (576), who moved up by three places after a four-wicket haul in the second innings of the Test against Ireland, is placed next at No.32.
Sri Lankan batters too made gains over the course of the Test with skipper Dimuth Karunaratne, who made 179 off 235 balls, achieving career-high ratings of 783 and moving up by one place to No.9.
Dinesh Chandimal, whose stellar run of form in Test cricket continued with an unbeaten hundred in Galle, also moved up by four places to enter the top 15. He is now placed 14th with 693 rating points.
Chandimal has had a rosy period in Test cricket, averaging over 90 in the format since the start of 2022.
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