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India's left-arm spinner Axar Patel jumped 20 places to his career-best ranking of 13 in the International Cricket Council's Rankings for ODI bowlers while Jasprit Bumrah and Dhawal Kulkarni also made progress after conclusion of the three-match series against Zimbabwe.
Patel, who took three wickets in the ODI series which the visitors won 3-0, is three places behind India’s highest-ranked bowler Ravichandran Ashwin.
Paceman Bumrah, who with nine wickets was the most successful bowler in the series, has stormed up 125 places to 97th while Kulkarni’s five wickets in the series lifted him 29 places to 88th.
West Indies'spinner Sunil Narine returned to his number-one position, leading New Zealand’s Trent Boult by three points.
South Africa’s Imran Tahir has jumped three places to second position. The leg-spinner is the leading wicket-taker in the ongoing tri-series in the West Indies also involving Australia, with 13 wickets to date, including a career-best seven for 45 against the West Indies.
Meanwhile in the ODI Player Rankings for batsmen, Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan and New Zealand team-mates Kane Williamson of New Zealand and Martin Guptill have benefitted from Rohit Sharma’s absence from the series against Zimbabwe and Quinton de Kock’s ordinary form to rise up the chart.
Dilshan and Williamson share the fourth position while Guptill is in sixth position following Sharma’s drop to seventh (down by two) and de Kock losing four places to slip to eighth.
Outside the top 10, the Australia trio of David Warner, Steve Smith and George Bailey have made upward movements.
Warner, who with 165 runs is the third highest scorer in the tri-series, has gained three places to jump to 12th position. Smith has moved up two places to 15th after scoring 140 runs in four innings.
AB de Villiers, whose 200th ODI lasted just six deliveries in Barbados on Sunday, is the number-one ranked batsman. He is followed by India’s Virat Kohli, 79 points behind, while Hashim Amla is third.