{"id":93586,"date":"2025-12-10T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=93586"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:04:36","slug":"national-batter-sahibzada-farhan-breaks-into-top-five-in-icc-t20i-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/national-batter-sahibzada-farhan-breaks-into-top-five-in-icc-t20i-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"National batter Sahibzada Farhan breaks into top five in ICC T20I rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Pakistan\u2019s top-order batter Sahibzada Farhan continued his upward trajectory in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-player-rankings-2025-saim-ayub-becomes-number-one-all-rounder-again\/\">ICC Men\u2019s Player Rankings<\/a> as he enters into the top five of T20I batters.<\/p>\n<p>Sahibzada Farhan, who dominated the recently concluded home T20I tri-series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe as the leading run-scorer, has climbed to fifth place with 752 rating points, edging past India\u2019s Tilak Varma.<\/p>\n<p>His surge reflects a period of sustained consistency that has quickly elevated him into the global elite of the format.<\/p>\n<p>As per details, Pakistan also continue to hold a firm grip on the top spot in the T20I all-rounders category, with Saim Ayub retaining his No.1 ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, India\u2019s Hardik Pandya, meanwhile, moved up three places to fourth, closing in on the upper tier.<\/p>\n<p>There was encouraging movement for Pakistan in the Test batting charts as well. Middle-order batter Saud Shakeel broke into the Top 10, climbing one spot to reach a 10th position.<\/p>\n<p>In the Test bowling rankings, however, there was a slight dip for Noman Ali, who slipped to fourth after Australia\u2019s Mitchell Starc jumped three places into third on the back of strong Ashes outings.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s ODI bowlers also enjoyed a rankings boost. Shaheen Shah Afridi moved up two places to 19th, while Haris Rauf gained one spot to reach 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Pakistan\u2019s top-order batter Sahibzada Farhan continued his upward trajectory in the ICC Men\u2019s Player Rankings as he enters into the top five of T20I batters. Sahibzada Farhan, who dominated the recently concluded home T20I tri-series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe as the leading run-scorer, has climbed to fifth place with 752 rating points, edging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":93589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[32899,31381],"class_list":["post-93586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-icc-t20i-rankings","tag-sahibzada-farhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93586","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93592,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93586\/revisions\/93592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}