{"id":60938,"date":"2021-04-21T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T08:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=60938"},"modified":"2021-04-21T08:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T08:57:51","slug":"babar-moves-to-second-position-in-icc-t20i-batsmen-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=60938","title":{"rendered":"Babar moves to second position in ICC T20I Batsmen Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Babar.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Pakistan&#8217;s all-format captain Babar Azam has moved\u00a0one place to reach the second position in the ICC Men\u2019s T20I Player Rankings in Wednesday\u2019s weekly update.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Babar, who dethroned India&#8217;s Virat Kohli at the top of ICC ODI Player Rankings last week, smacked his maiden T20I century, helping him to overtake\u00a0Australia\u2019s Aaron Finch in the T20I rankings.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/icc-confident-host-world-test-championship-final-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICC confident to host World Test Championship final on time<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Babar has the opportunity to take the top spot from England&#8217;s Dawid Malan as Pakistan are scheduled to play\u00a0a three-match series against Zimbabwe from today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<p>On the other hand, wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan surged to\u00a0career-best 15th position while Fakhar Zaman moved to 33rd spot.<\/p>\n<p>Left-arm fast bowler Shaheen Afridi has attained a career best-equaling 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0spot after grabbing a wicket each in the two matches while Faheem Ashraf (up 12 places to 16<sup>th<\/sup>), Mohammad Nawaz (up four places to 24<sup>th<\/sup>) and Haris Rauf (up 43 places to 38<sup>th<\/sup>) have also moved up in the bowlers\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wasim-sana-mentors-icc-launches-future-leaders-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wasim, Sana named mentors as ICC launches \u2018Future Leaders Programme\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Pakistan&#8217;s all-format captain Babar Azam has moved\u00a0one place to reach the second position in the ICC Men\u2019s T20I Player Rankings in Wednesday\u2019s weekly update. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=60938\" title=\"Babar moves to second position in ICC T20I Batsmen Rankings\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60940,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60938\/revisions\/60940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}