Bangladesh continued its recent fine run of home form in ODI cricket with an inaugural home series victory over South Africa on Wednesday to make it four successive home series victories.
The 2-1 triumph helped cement its ICC Champions Trophy 2017 qualification, as well as its seventh place position in the ICC ODI Team Rankings, and it has also closed the gap on sixth-placed England to two points, while the Proteas remain in fourth place but have dropped three rankings points to 109.
Following its 3-0 series victory over Zimbabwe, India has maintained its second place ranking and still remains 14 points adrift of Australia who leads the field on 129 points.
Soumya Sarkar had a series he won’t forget in a hurry and his scores of 27, 88 not out and 90 propelled Bangladesh to victory and also vaulted the 22-year-old 35 places in the ICC Player Rankings for ODI Batsmen to a career high 15th on 671 points. Another upward mover for the hosts was Nasir Hossain who has moved up one place to 37th.
The top 10 remains unchanged which means that AB de Villiers in first position, and captain Hashim Amla in third, are the leading batsmen for South Africa. Faf du Plessis has gained one place to 17th after scoring 110 runs in the series.
In the ICC Players Rankings for ODI Bowlers, Shakib Al Hasan has moved up one place to seventh and now lies just one place, and three points, behind Australia’s Mitchell Johnson. Shakib joined his captain Mashrafe Mortaza in claiming their 200th ODI wickets in the third ODI in Chittagong and Mortaza has now moved up two places to 26th. But the biggest movers were Rubel Hossain (up 15 places to 40th), Mustafizur Rahman (up 19 to 69th), Mahmudullah (up 15 to 75th) and Nasir Hossain (up 18 to a career high 92nd).
Leg-spinner Imran Tahir has dropped three places to fifth in a disappointing series for the South Africa attack this time around, with no front line bowlers making upward progressions in the top 100.
Shakib retains his number one spot in the ICC Player Rankings for ODI All-rounders on 418 points, 17 clear of Sri Lanka’s Tillikaratne Dilshan.
Zimbabwe v India
Meanwhile, following India’s 3-0 series victory over Zimbabwe which concluded earlier this week, a number of players on both sides have made significant gains.
In the Batting ranks, Suresh Raina has moved up one place to 19th, but the biggest mover in the series was Zimbabwe’s Chamu Chibhabha whose 157 runs in the three games (including two half centuries and a top score of 82) vaulted the 28-year-old 33 places to 89th.
India medium pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar has climbed four places to 12th in the Bowling rankings after taking five wickets for 80 in the series. There were also gains for his team-mates Akshar Patel (up 18 to a career high 47th), Mohit Sharma (up seven places to 51st) and Harbhajan Singh who lies just outside the top 100 in 101st position, but has climbed a noteworthy 154 places. For Zimbabwe, Tendai Chatara (up one to 31st) and Prosper Utseya (up one to 37th), were the chief movers.
With the Sri Lanka and Pakistan series finely poised at one-all with three ODIs to go, there is expected to be further movement in the rankings table over the coming weeks.
Forthcoming matches:
Sri Lanka v Pakistan
19 July – Third ODI, Colombo
22 July – Fourth ODI, Colombo
26 July – Fifth ODI, Hambantota
ICC ODI Championship table (as on 16 July, after 2nd ODI between Sri Lanka-Pakistan and following Bangladesh-South Africa and Zimbabwe-India series):
Rank Team Points
1 Australia 129
2 India 115
3 New Zealand 112
4 South Africa 109
5 Sri Lanka 105
6 England 98
7 Bangladesh 96
8 West Indies 88
9 Pakistan 88
10 Ireland 50
11 Zimbabwe 43
12 Afghanistan 41
(Developed by David Kendix)
ICC ODI PLAYER RANKINGS (as on 16 July, after 2nd ODI between Sri Lanka-Pakistan and following Bangladesh-South Africa and Zimbabwe-India series):
Batsmen (top 10)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) AB de Villiers SA 889 53.65 902 v NZ at Auckland 2015
2 ( – ) K. Sangakkara SL 851 41.98 861 v Sco at Hobart 2015
3 ( – ) Hashim Amla SA 806 54.17 901 v Eng at Trent Bridge 2012
4 ( – ) Virat Kohli Ind 790 50.66 886 v Ban at Fatullah 2014
5 ( – ) T. Dilshan SL 788 39.68 802 v Sco at Hobart 2015
6 ( – ) K. Williamson NZ 786 47.41 789 v Aus at Auckland 2015
7 ( – ) S. Dhawan Ind 765 44.41 794 v SA at Melbourne 2015
8 ( – ) Ross Taylor NZ 732 43.03 736 v Eng at Southampton 2015
9 ( – ) MS Dhoni Ind 723 52.24 836 v Aus at Delhi 2009
10 ( – ) Glenn Maxwell Aus 720 35.05 724 v Pak at Adelaide 2015
Selected rankings
Rank ( +/-) Player T eam Pts Ave HS Rating
15 (+35) Soumya Sarkar Ban 671*! 49.42 671 v SA at Chittagong 2015
17 (+1) F. du Plessis SA 666 37.16 703 v NZ at Bay Oval 2014
19 (+1) Suresh Raina Ind 652 36.18 669 v Eng at Dharamsala 2013
21 ( – ) M. Rahim Ban 649 31.10 663 v Pak at Mirpur 2015
23 (-7) Q. de Kock SA 640 37.22 749 v Aus at Sydney 2014
26 (-3) David Miller SA 629 37.55 635 v Ban at Mirpur 2015
29 (-1) Tamim Iqbal Ban 610 31.37 637 v WI at Khulna 2012
31 ( – ) S. Al Hasan Ban 606 35.33 683 v Pak at Mirpur 2012
34 (-1) JP Duminy SA 593 39.51 668 v Net at Mohali 2011
37 (+1) Nasir Hossain Ban 570 34.00 585 v Zim at Bulawayo 2013
89 (+33) J. Chibhabha Zim 428 24.35 458 v SL at Harare 2008
Bowlers (top 10)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) Mitchell Starc Aus 783! 18.33 4.70 783 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
2 (+1) Trent Boult NZ 727* 24.08 4.64 738 v Eng at The Oval 2015
3 (+2) Sunil Narine WI 709 26.49 4.10 791 v SL at Jamaica 2013
4 ( – ) Dale Steyn SA 706 25.57 4.81 746 v Ind at Durban 2013
5 (-3) Imran Tahir SA 704 21.54 4.40 735 v SL at Sydney 2015
6 ( – ) M. Johnson Aus 693 25.26 4.83 724 v Ban at Darwin 2008
7 (+1) S. Al Hasan Ban 690 28.35 4.30 717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
8 (-1) Saeed Ajmal Pak 675 22.73 4.18 810 v SA at Centurion 2013
9 (+2) James Anderson Eng 650 29.22 4.92 719 v SA at The Oval 2013
10 (-1) Morne Morkel SA 646 24.19 4.92 717 v SL at East London 2012
Selected rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
12 (+4) B. Kumar Ind 639 34.71 4.55 657 v WI at Dharamsala 2014
26 (+2) M. Mortaza Ban 560 30.88 4.74 653 v Zim at Mirpur 2009
30 ( – ) Ryan McLaren SA 547 27.28 5.24 681 v Zim at Bulawayo 2014
31 (+1) Tendai Chatara Zim 544* 34.29 5.20 562 v Ire at Hobart 2015
37 (+1) Prosper Utseya Zim 522 46.24 4.35 663 v Ban at Harare 2006
40 (+15) Rubel Hossain Ban 511 32.71 5.59 514 v Pak at Mirpur 2011
47 (+18) Akshar Patel Ind 492*! 26.60 4.59 492 v Zim at Harare 2015
51 (+7) Mohit Sharma Ind 487* 30.96 5.16 495 v Aus at Sydney 2015
69 (+19) M. Rahman Ban 456*! 12.61 4.25 456 v SA at Chittagong 2015
70 (-1) JP Duminy SA 451 40.57 5.11 469 v Ban at Mirpur 2015
75 (+15) Mahmudullah Ban 432 43.30 5.07 480 v SL at Mirpur 2014
92 (+18) Nasir Hossain Ban 406*! 43.26 4.64 406 v SA at Chittagong 2015
101 (+154) Harbhajan Singh Ind 378* 33.31 3.66 735 v WI at Barbados 2002
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Rating
1 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 418 453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
2 ( – ) T. Dilshan SL 401 415 v Sco at Hobart 2015
3 ( – ) Angelo Mathews SL 386 427 v Eng at Colombo (RPS) 2014
4 (+1) Mohammad Hafeez Pak 366 438 v Ind at Kolkata 2013
5 (-1) James Faulkner Aus 361*/! 361 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
*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
