India-based all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been the latest addition to the new ICC T20I rankings, where he seized the all-round player top spot. He was able to attain this during the last T20 World Cup in 2024, where Pandya contributed a lot.
A great contribution was made by Hardik Pandya, who helped India beat South Africa in the tournament final. To win the match for India, Hardik got the big wickets of David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen when 30 runs were needed in the last 30 balls of South Africa’s innings.
India lifts the Twenty20 World Cup in 2024 after he saves 16 runs in the last over for David Miller and Co. The victory margin was seven wickets.
When the team wanted it, Hardik Pandya came up with wickets through the fence and, at the same time, made valuable hard-hitting cameos with the bat towards the end of the innings. He batted at a strike rate of 152+ and scored 144 runs and he bowled as well and took 11 wickets.
In T20I rankings, which, reveal quite a static list, Marcus Stoinis, as well as Sikandar Raza, Shakib Al Hasan, and Liam Livingstone, improved their positions by moving one place up, while Mohammad Nabi dropped four positions down out of five.
Hardik Pandya becomes the No. 1 T20I allrounder:
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Since their T20 World Cup 2024 triumph in the West Indies, the Indian bowling line-up has quickly catapulted into the ICC T20I rankings. Thus, the Indian bowlers were sensitively alert whenever the Indian team needed it most, and it was the biggest factor that separated India and the rival teams.
There are new ball players who are rapidly climbing the bowling ranking list due to magnificent performances; Axar Patel is one of them who rises one rank higher to reach the position of number seven. He was also instrumental in the semi-final match against England, taking 3/23, which was instrumental in the team qualifying for the finals.
Jasprit Bumrah has also seen the player rankings shift 12 places up to slot 12. Looking at the championship figures, the overall record With 15 wickets from eight innings at an average of 8.46, the right-arm pacer finished as the tournament’s second-highest wicket taker.
Left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh was the other player to climb four places to a new high of the 13th rank. The individual bowling performance rate card reads as follows: At the top of the list is Nannes, with 17 wickets in eight innings at an average of 9.41 and an economy of 6.31. Arshdeep made a statement equating him with Fazalhaq Farooqi as the most wicket-taker in the competition.
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