{"id":55997,"date":"2024-11-13T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T10:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=55997"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:56:04","slug":"shaheen-afridi-babar-azam-tops-icc-odi-bowling-batting-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/shaheen-afridi-babar-azam-tops-icc-odi-bowling-batting-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen Afridi, Babar Azam tops ICC ODI bowling, batting ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Pakistan ace pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi has reclaimed the top spot in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/shaheen-afridi-rises-to-4th-in-icc-odi-rankings\/\">ODI Bowling Rankings<\/a>, surpassing South African spinner Keshav Maharaj, who dropped to third.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi took eight wickets at a significant average of 12.62 in Pakistan&#8217;s historic <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-wins-odi-series-in-australia-after-22-years\/\">three-match ODI series<\/a> victory over Australia after 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, fast bowler Haris Rauf also jumped 14 spots to secure 13<sup>th<\/sup> place in ranking \u2014 a career-high rating \u2014 after being named Player of the Series in a recent series triumph. Meanwhile, Naseem Shah also claimed 14 positions to settle at 55th place in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Following Afridi\u2019s claim of the top spot, Pakistan has now the local top-ranked players in both batting and bowling rankings as Babar Azam continues his dominance in the ODI batting ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The next three spots in the ICC ODI batting ranking are claimed by Indian skipper Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, and Virat Kholi. Ireland&#8217;s Harry Tector comes fifth on the list of top ODI batters.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s newly-appointed white-ball captain Mohammad Rizwan also raised two spots to a joint 23rd in the ODI batting rankings following his consistent performance and 74 runs in three innings against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>For the ODI all-rounders ranking, Afghanistan\u2019s star player Mohammad Nabi, who is set to retire, remained at the top of the all-rounders\u2019 rankings, followed by Zimbabwe\u2019s Sikandar Raza and Rashid Khan in the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Pakistan ace pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi has reclaimed the top spot in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men&#8217;s ODI Bowling Rankings, surpassing South African spinner Keshav Maharaj, who dropped to third. Afridi took eight wickets at a significant average of 12.62 in Pakistan&#8217;s historic three-match ODI series victory over Australia after 22 years. Similarly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":56006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[694,1626,23952],"class_list":["post-55997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-shaheen-shah-afridi","tag-icc-bowling-ranking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56007,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55997\/revisions\/56007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}