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New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the new ODI rankings, in which Virat Kohli has gained one place and is now included in the top-5 batsmen. Despite Team India not playing any ODI match this week, the flop performance of Pakistan batsman Babar Azam has benefited Kohli and Sri Lanka’s Charit Aslanka. India captain Rohit Sharma remains at the first position in ICC’s ODI batting rankings. It has 781 rating points. In the series against Australia, Rohit played unbeaten innings of 73 runs in the second ODI and 121 runs in the third ODI. On the basis of this performance, Rohit had reached the top a few weeks ago and has now maintained his position.

Virat Kohli had scored zero runs in the first two ODIs against Australia, but played a good inning of 74 runs in the third match. However, this innings did not contribute to his ranking improvement, however, Virat gained one place due to Babar Azam’s poor performance. Babar Azma played three ODIs against South Africa and Sri Lanka last week, in which he scored 11, 27 and 29 runs respectively. Due to this, Babar has dropped from fifth place to seventh place in the ranking.

• ICC ODI batsman ranking top-10

Rohit Sharma (India) – 781

Ibrahim Zadran (Afghanistan) – 764

Darryl Mitchell (New Zealand) – 746

Shubhman Gill (India) – 745

Virat Kohli (India) – 725

Charita Aslanka (Sri Lanka) – 710

Babar Azam (Pakistan) – 709

Harry Tector (Ireland) – 708

Shreyas Iyer (India) – 700

Shay Hope (West Indies) – 690

• t20 Abhishek Sharma remains on top in the ranking

India’s Abhishek Sharma has retained his first position in the ICC T20 batting rankings. Tilak Verma has lost two places and has moved from third to fifth place. While Hardik Pandya has lost one place in the T20 all-rounder rankings and has now reached the fifth position.