Shubman Gill ICC ODI Rankings: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the latest ODI rankings of players, in which Indian cricket team captain Shubman Gill has got a huge advantage. Gill, who created havoc with the bat in the recently concluded ODI series against Afghanistan, has taken a huge leap in the ICC rankings and has directly secured the second position. The impact of Gill’s stormy batting has also been seen on the ranking of the team’s two senior players, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
Gill’s bat against Afghanistan
India had won the three-match ODI series against Afghanistan 3-0. Shubman Gill’s contribution was the biggest in the victory of this series. Batting in 2 innings of the series, Gill scored a total of 238 runs with an average of 238.00 and a stormy strike rate of 135.22. He played a match-winning inning of unbeaten 84 runs in the ODI match played in Dharamshala, after which he scored a century with 154 runs in the Lucknow ODI. He did not get a chance to bat in the third match of the series in Chennai, but on the basis of the first two matches, he created a stir in the rankings.
Due to this explosive performance in the Afghanistan series, Shubman Gill has gained 3 places in the ICC rankings. He has now become the world’s second-ranked ODI batsman with an impressive rating of 791. Due to this surge of Gill and himself being out of the ODI series, star batsman Virat Kohli has had to suffer the loss of one place. Kohli has now slipped from second place to third place. At the same time, captain Rohit Sharma remains at fourth position with a rating of 754. But Gill, who was earlier at number 5, has now gone ahead of him.
These players also benefited
After this series, Shreyas Iyer’s ODI ranking has also improved. He has now moved from 15th to 14th position with 638 rating points. At the same time, Ishan Kishan has jumped 21 places to 43rd position. Yashasvi Jaiswal has also come at number 71, leaving behind 84 batsmen, he had scored a century in the last match of the series.
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