Joe Root, Kuldeep Yadav soar in ICC ODI charts

Two centuries in a three-match one-day international series is a pretty impressive record. Once Joe Root achieved that, with 113* in the second game and 100* in the third, it was hardly a surprise that he gained big in the rankings.

Root moved up to No.2, a jump of four spots, after averaging 216 in the three-match series against India, which England won 2-1. His 818 ratings points, however, isn’t the best in his career. The 819 he had after the Brisbane ODI against Australia earlier this year, when he followed up his 91* in Melbourne with 46*, remains his best.

Kohli’s India lost the series, but the captain was in good nick, registering scores of 75, 45 and 71 to total 191 runs at an average of 63.66. That not only helped him hold on to the top spot, but also gave him his career-best rating points: 911.

With Root moving up, other top batsmen had to make way. Babar Azam moved down one spot to No.3, the out-of-action David Warner slipped two spots to fifth, while Ross Taylor went down one position to No. 6. Rohit Sharma, however, stayed at No.4, with his 137* in the first ODI helping his cause.

Two wrist-spinners also had memorable series, Kuldeep Yadav and Adil Rashid.

Rashid, the England leg-spinner, had six wickets in the three games, and the 3/49 in the final fixture took him to a career-high 681 rating points. There was no movement up the ladder for him, though, as he remained in eighth spot.

There were no changes in the top five – Jasprit Bumrah, Rashid Khan, Hasan Ali, Trent Boult and Josh Hazlewood – but Yadav soared eight spots following his chart-topping nine wickets in the series to get to No.6. The Indian left-armer ended the series with 684 rating points after having achieved a career-high – unsurprisingly – earlier in the series following returns of 6/25 and 3/68.

Elsewhere, the Zimbabwe v Pakistan ODI series is still on, but the high performers have started to rise up the table.

The stars for Pakistan in the first two ODIs have been Fakhar Zaman (177 runs) and Imam-ul-Haq (172 runs) with the bat and Usman Shinwari (6 wickets) with the ball.

While Zaman has moved up 14 positions to No.24 with a career-best 639 points – joint with Alex Hales – Imam, still only six ODIs old, is at No.94, a gain of an astounding 70 spots.

Shinwari, too, has gone up 66 spots to No.94 among the bowlers.

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