Pakistan has had a remarkable year in limited over format; holding a successful PSL campaign, winning series against West Indies, outshining India to win ICC Champions Trophy and currently, outperforming Sri Lanka 3-0 in a five match series.
The national team has achieved all this success on behalf of some sensational performances from the likes of Hasan Ali and Muhammad Hafeez — who are now ranked as world’s best bowler and best all-rounder, respectively, in the latest ICC rankings released on Friday.
Hasan Ali’s haul of five for 34 in the third ODI against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi, has given the pace bowler a big boost in ranking points.
The 23-year-old, who has taken nine wickets in the series so far, has moved up six places to become the fifth bowler at the top of the ODI rankings this year after Trent Boult, Imran Tahir, Kagiso Rabada and Josh Hazlewood.
On the other hand, Babar Azam has also moved up two places to improve his position becoming the 4th best ODI batsman in the world. South African batsman AB de Villiers has once again grabbed the top position.
De Villiers has climbed to the top of the ODI table for the 14th time in his career and has leapfrogged Australian David Warner and India captain Virat Kohli. He had first attained the top position on 30 May 2010 and the number of days he has spent at the top is second most after retired WIndies great Vivian Richards.
De Villiers has now been at the top for 2,124 days while Richards was number one for 2,306 days.
Outside of the top 20, Sri Lanka’s Suranga Lakmal (up three places to 36th), South Africa’s Andile Phehlukwayo (up 30 places to 52nd) and Bangladesh’s Rubel Hossain (up seven places to 61st) are the other bowlers to move northwards.
Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez is back as the top all-rounder, edging Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan. Hafeez, who first attained top ranking in January 2013, has reached the top spot for the ninth time.
Meanwhile, India will be looking to wrest back the top spot in the team rankings when they take on New Zealand in an upcoming three-match series.
South Africa and India are both on 120 points with South Africa ahead on decimal points. South Africa can reach 121 points if they complete a 3-0 series win over Bangladesh but India will overtake them if they win the opening match against New Zealand, to be played the same day as the last South Africa-Bangladesh match, on 22 October.
ICC ODI Team Rankings (On 20 October, after the first three matches of the Pakistan-Sri Lanka series and the first two matches of the South Africa-Bangladesh series):
Rank     Team        Points
1      South Africa       120
2        India           120
3      Australia         114
4       England         114
5     New Zealand       111
 6        Pakistan         98
7       Bangladesh       92
8       Sri Lanka        84
9      West Indies        77
10     Afghanistan       54
12      Zimbabwe        52
13        Ireland         41
Top 20 Batsmen
Rank      (+/-)     Player     Team    Points  Avg      Highest Rating
1          (+2)        AB de Villiers       SA          879       54.25     902 v NZ at Auckland 2015
2          (-1)         Virat Kohli            Ind         877       55.13     887 v Aus at Kolkata 2017
3          (-1)     David Warner    Aus        865       44.94     880 v Pak at Adelaide 2017
4          (+2)    Babar Azam      Pak        833*!   56.30    833 v SL at Abu Dhabi 2017
5=       (+3)    Quinton de Kock  SA     802       45.52     805 v Ban at Kimberley 2017
5=     (-1)     Joe Root         Eng    802       50.00   808 v Win at Bristol 2017
7          (-2)     Rohit Sharma    Ind         790!      44.03     790 v Aus at Nagpur 2017
8          (-1)     Kane Williamson  NZ          779       46.98     798 v SA at Centurion 2015
9          (+2)    Hashim Amla     SA          770       51.25     901 v Eng at Trent Bridge 2012
10        (-1)         Faf du Plessis     SA          754       42.96     791 v SL at Cape Town 2017
11        (-1)         Martin Guptill     NZ          749       43.30     789 v SA at Hamilton 2017
12        ( – )         MS Dhoni        Ind         738       51.90     836 v Aus at Delhi 2009
13        ( – )         Steve Smith       Aus        728       43.23     752 v Pak at Sydney 2017
14        ( – )         Shikhar Dhawan  Ind         715       44.45     794 v SA at Melbourne 2015
15        ( – )         Ross Taylor       NZ          707       44.12     743 v Zim at Harare 2015
16        ( – )         Tamim Iqbal      Ban     680       34.32     688 v Aus at The Oval 2017
17        ( – )         Aaron Finch       Aus        674       36.56     743 v Eng at Melbourne 2015
18        (+5)        Mushfiqur Rahim Ban        667       33.10     671 v Zim at Mirpur 2015
19        (-1)         Alex Hales        Eng        660       37.89     705 v NZ at Cardiff 2017
20        (-1)         Eoin Morgan      Eng        650       38.16     690 v Aus at The Oval 2010
Top 20 Blowers
Rank      (+/-)      Player       Team  Points   Avg   Eco.      Highest Rating
1          (+6)        Hasan Ali       Pak    743*!   20.66    5.19      743 v SL at Abu Dhabi 2017
2          (-1)         Imran Tahir      SA     726     23.87    4.66      786 v SL at Johannesburg 2017
3          (-1)         Josh Hazlewood  Aus    714     23.85    4.69      732 v Eng at Edgbaston 2017
4          (-1)         Kagiso Rabada   SA     703     25.98    5.07      724 v Eng at Lord’s 2017
5          (-1)         Mitchell Starc    Aus    684        20.13    4.81      783 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
6          (-1)         Jasprit Bumrah   Ind     671*     22.10    4.75      687 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2017
7          (-1)         Trent Boult       NZ     665    25.48    5.00      766 v Ind at Delhi 2016
8          (-1)         Akshar Patel     Ind     663*!    29.88    4.36      663 v Aus at Nagpur 2017
9          ( – )         Rashid Khan        Afg         647*!    14.74    3.97      647 v Win at St Lucia 2017
10=      ( – )         Sunil Narine     Win    646    26.46    4.12      791 v SL at Jamaica 2013
10=    ( – )         Liam Plunkett    Eng        646!      30.22    5.77      646 v Win at Southampton 2017
12        ( – )         Adil Rashid       Eng        639    32.02    5.55      655 v Ban at Chittagong 2016
13        ( – )         Chris Woakes     Eng        635        31.45    5.58      651 v SA at Headingley 2017
14        ( – )         B. Kumar         Ind     626     36.71    4.86      657 v Win at Dharamsala 2014
15        ( – )         Mohammad Nabi  Afg         618     32.74    4.29      653 v Zim at Harare 2017
16        ( – )         Mitchell Santner   NZ     610*    33.77    4.99      617 v Ban at Dublin 2017
17        ( – )         Matt Henry        NZ     606    25.26    5.62      675 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
18        (+1)        Morne Morkel     SA     590    24.48    4.94      717 v SL at East London 2012
19        (+1)        Shakib Al Hasan   Ban    586       29.70    4.43      717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
20        (+1)        Pat Cummins      Aus    580       29.24    5.41      588 v Ind at Indore 2017
Top 5 All-Rounders
Rank      (+/-)      Player       Team    Points    Highest Rating
 1          (+1)        M. Hafeez       Pak        360       438 v Ind at Kolkata 2013
2          (-1)         S. Al Hasan          Ban     345       453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
3          ( – )         M. Nabi         Afg     329       349 v Ire at Greater Noida 2017
4          ( – )         Angelo Mathews  SL      296       427 v Eng at Colombo (RPS) 2014
5          ( – )         Ben Stokes       Eng        293       299 v Win at Bristol 2017
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