Latest ICC T20I Player Rankings

Since the ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014, India has played 16 matches and has won 11, including 10 out of 11 T20Is this year. And this is reflected in the MRF Tyres ICC T20I Player Rankings which boasts a number of its players enjoying high rankings.

In the batting table, Virat Kohli is second and is followed by Rohit Sharma (11th), Suresh Raina (16th), Yuvraj Singh (22nd), Dhoni (43rd) and Shikhar Dhawan (48th). In the absence of Sunil Narine, second-ranked Ravichandran Ashwin will start as the highest-ranked bowler while Ravindra Jadeja is 11th, Jasprit Bumrah is 27thand Yuvraj is 43rd. Yuvraj is also India’s highest-ranked all-rounder in sixth position.

West Indies’ charge will once again be led by Chris Gayle, who is occupying the seventh position. The other top-ranked West Indies batsmen are Marlon Samuels (19th), Dwayne Bravo (32nd) and Dwayne Smith (50th), while 49th-ranked Bravo is its highest-ranked bowler. Captain Darren Sammy is 74th in the batting table, 62nd in the bowlers’ category and 25th in the all-rounders’ list.

South Africa, which is searching for its first ICC major since winning the ICC Champions Trophy 1998 (then called ICC Knock-Out), has all the ammunition it needs to go the full distance. Since the ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014, it has won 10 out of 16 matches. It boasts as many as six batsmen inside the top 50, led by captain Faf du Plessis in third, JP Duminy in 15th, Hashim Amla in 21st, Quinton de Kock in 24th, David Miller in 28th and AB de Villiers in 34th. Its bowlers also feature prominently in the list with Imran Tahir in third, David Wiese in eighth, Kyle Abbott in 12th, Kagiso Rabada in 30thand Dale Steyn in 45th.

Australia will be aiming to complete a Career Grand Slam by winning the missing ICC World Twenty20 India 2016. And though it has lost more than 50 percent of matches it has played since the ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014 (played 10, won four, lost six to date), it remains a force to be reckoned with in this format. Australia’s Aaron Finch will start as the number-one ranked batsman, while its other top batsmen are David Warner (ninth), Shane Watson (13th) and Glenn Maxwell (31st). Its highest-ranked bowlers are Watson and Maxwell, who share the 35th spot, while James Faulkner is 37th. Watson will start the tournament as world’s best all-rounder with Maxwell in seventh position.

Sides featuring in the first-round matches from 8-13 March in Dharamsala and Nagpur include a number of players who feature in the top 50.

ICC T20I Rankings

Rank	Team	Points
1	India	127
2	West Indies	118
3	South Africa	118
4	New Zealand	116
5	England	112
6	Australia	111
7	Pakistan	110
8	Sri Lanka	109
9	Afghanistan	77
10	Bangladesh	74
11	Scotland	69
12	Netherlands	59
13	Zimbabwe	54
14	Hong Kong	49
15	Ireland	48
16	UAE	38
17	Oman	32

ICC T20I Player Rankings

Batsmen

Rank	Player	Team	Points	Avg.	S/R
1	Aaron Finch	Australia	858	39.82	153
2	Virat Kohli	India	834	52.61	133
3	Faf du Plessis	South Africa	797	41.29	136
4	Alex Hales	England	786	33.94	135
5	Martin Guptill	New Zealand	741	34.70	130
6	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	733	36.69	128
7	Chris Gayle	West Indies	703	35.15	143
8	Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe	699	31.42	120
9	David Warner	Australia	669	29.47	141
10	Eoin Morgan	England	666	30.29	133

Bowlers

Rank	Name	Team	Points	Avg.	Eco
1	Sunil Narine	West Indies	773	17.75	5.69
2	Ravichandran Ashwin	India	740	21.56	6.84
3	Imran Tahir	South Africa	712	15.42	6.58
4	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	673	24.11	6.57
5	Graeme Cremer	Zimbabwe	669	16.59	6.72
6	Mitchell McClenaghan	New Zealand	643	25.80	7.68
7	Dawlat Zadran	Afghanistan	633	19.33	7.25
8	David Wiese	South Africa	626	17.39	7.36
9	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	625	21.01	6.68
10	Sachithra Senanayake	Sri Lanka	623	19.33	6.35

All-rounders

Rank	Name	Team	Points
1	Shane Watson	Australia	340
2	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	339
3	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	319
4	Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	285
5	Marlon Samuels	West Indies	282
6	Yuvraj Singh	India	279
7	Glenn Maxwell	Australia	276
8	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	255
9	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	247
10	JP Duminy	South Africa	245