{"id":188599,"date":"2026-07-01T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=188599"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:38:03","slug":"icc-rankings-kishan-moves-above-abhishek-to-become-no-1-t20i-batter-head-tops-test-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=188599","title":{"rendered":"ICC Rankings: Kishan moves above Abhishek to become No. 1 T20I batter, Head tops Test rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71169635\">Dashing India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan has displaced teammate Abhishek Sharma from the top spot in the latest ICC men\u2019s T20I batting rankings released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The rise to the top for Kishan (876 ranking points) comes on the back of his consistent form at the T20 World Cup at the start of the year, where the flamboyant southpaw compiled 317 runs at a strike rate of almost 200 that included an Player of the Match performance against Pakistan in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>Abhishek (869 ranking points) had held the top ranking for almost 12 months, with Kishan joining an exclusive group that includes Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav as one of four male players from India to have held the premier position for batters in T20I cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Sahibzada Farhan is a distant third in the list with 848 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest list, newly appointed India vice-captain Tilak Varma (747 rating points) is static at sixth place where as sacked former skipper Suryakumar Yadav is eighth in the list having dropped a slot.<\/p>\n<p>Among bowlers, India\u2019s Varun Chakravarthy and Jasprit Bumrah dropped a slot each to be third and sixth respectively. Afghanistan\u2019s Rashid Khan maintained his top spot.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s Test batting rankings, Travis Head has leaped to the top spot while Joe Root has slipped to third.<\/p>\n<p>India Test captain Shubman Gill is sixth in the list having gained a spot while Yashasvi Jaiswal dropped a slot to be ninth. Outside the top 10, Rishabh Pant is the best ranked Indian at 13th. Bumrah is top ranked among bowlers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 01, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/icc-batter-rankings-ishan-kishan-abhishek-sharma-travis-head-batter-bowler-test-odi-t20i-latest-updaed\/article71169635.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dashing India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan has displaced teammate Abhishek Sharma from the top spot in the latest ICC men\u2019s T20I batting rankings released on Wednesday. The rise to the top for Kishan (876 ranking points) comes on the back of his consistent form at the T20 World Cup at the start of the year, where &#8230; <a title=\"ICC Rankings: Kishan moves above Abhishek to become No. 1 T20I batter, Head tops Test rankings\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=188599\" aria-label=\"Read more about ICC Rankings: Kishan moves above Abhishek to become No. 1 T20I batter, Head tops Test rankings\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/India_Afghanistan_Cricket_14441.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188617,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=188617","url_meta":{"origin":188599,"position":0},"title":"ENG vs IND, 1st T20I: Shreyas, Abhishek shine with fifties before rain forces abandonment","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 1, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"England and India were \u200bleft frustrated as the opening game of their three-match \u2060T20 series was abandoned because of rain at the halfway stage. 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