Up to date on: Dec 03, 2025 03:15 pm IST
Together with his match-winning 135, Virat Kohli went previous Shubman Gill to take the fourth spot
Star India batter Virat Kohli surpassed Shubman Gill within the newest ICC ODI Rankings, launched on Wednesday, following his heroic knock within the collection opener towards South Africa in Ranchi. Rohit Sharma, nonetheless, retained the highest spot, extending his lead over New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell.
Kohli continued his beautiful ODI kind, smashing a 120-ball 135 towards the Proteas to information India to a 17-run win in Ranchi. It was his 52nd profession ODI century, his third on the venue, and his first since February. En route, he solid a 136-run stand for the second wicket with Rohit, who scored a valiant 57 as India set a formidable goal of 350 runs.
With the match-winning knock, Kohli went previous Gill, who was dominated out of the ODI collection whereas recovering from a neck harm sustained final month through the Kolkata Check, into fourth place on the ICC rankings chart. He now has 751 ranking factors and is simply 32 factors behind Rohit Sharma’s prime spot.
He was the No.1 ranked batter for a prolonged interval of greater than three years in direction of the tip of the final decade, however hasn’t held the premier place since Pakistan’s Babar Azam displaced him on the prime in April 2021, and the continued South Africa collection gives a primary alternative for the modern-day legend to climb increased.
Kuldeep Yadav, then again, who picked up a four-wicket haul to cease a spirited fightback from the South African batters in Ranchi, moved to the sixth spot within the ODI rankings for the bowlers. He now has 641 ranking factors as he went previous New Zealand’s Mitchell Santner to turn out to be the highest-ranked Indian bowler within the format.
In T20I rankings, Abhishek Sharma and Varun Chakravarthy proceed to dominate. The left-handed batter has 920 ranking factors, and owns a great lead over second-placed Phil Salt, whereas the bowler has a ranking of 780.
