Gill, Rohit and Kohli in top five of ICC’s ODI batting rankings

India’s unbeaten run across the Champions Trophy was made possible by several players stepping up and that has now been quantified to an extent by gains made in the ICC ODI rankings. They make up four of the top eight ranked batters in the world with Shubman Gill still at No. 1. Rohit Sharma, who was named Player of the Final for his match-winning 76, has moved up two places to No. 3 and Virat Kohli, with 218 runs in the tournament, is at No. 5. Shreyas Iyer retained his No. 8 spot.

India’s third Champions Trophy title was set up by their spinners and two of them have made it to the top ten on the ICC ODI bowlers’ rankings. Kuldeep Yadav, who began his spell in the final with a wicket, is up at third place and in tenth is Ravindra Jadeja, who was as miserly as ever with an economy rate of 4.35 in the tournament.

New Zealand’s players made significant gains as well after their team’s run to the final of the Champions Trophy. Captain Mitchell Santner is ranked second on the ODI bowlers’ list, moving up six places on the back of several eye-catching performances. Santner finished with nine wickets in the tournament with an economy rate of 4.80. He is also fourth on the ODI allrounders’ rankings with Michael Bracewell, who made a fifty in the final and was New Zealand’s second-highest wicket-taker in the Champions Trophy, in seventh place.

The other standout New Zealand player, Rachin Ravindra who was the highest-scorer of the competition, jumped up 14 places to 14 on the ODI batters rankings and eight places up to eighth in the allrounders rankings.