Overview
- The ICC men's T20I rankings, released Wednesday, keep Abhishek Sharma on 875 points ahead of Ishan Kishan on 871.
- South Africa debutant Connor Esterhuizen jumped from outside the top 100 to 39th after scoring 200 runs and taking Player of the Series in a 3-2 win in New Zealand.
- Pace bowler Gerald Coetzee climbed 36 places to joint 52nd, with Ottneil Baartman up to 56th and George Linde to joint 62nd after the New Zealand series.
- Within the top 10, Tilak Varma sits sixth and Suryakumar Yadav seventh, and the only movers were Jos Buttler to eighth and Tim Seifert to ninth.
- The ICC system weights recent matches, which lets mid-ranked players surge after short hot streaks even as leaders like Rashid Khan and Sikandar Raza hold their No. 1 spots.