A lacklustre World Cup performance notwithstanding, Virat Kohli remained the highest-placed Indian batsman at fourth even as Shikhar Dhawan rose a rung to sixth in the latest ICC ODI rankings issued on Tuesday. Apart from Kohli and Dhawan, Indian skipper MS Dhoni is the other Indian batsman to be inside the top-10, hanging on to the eighth spot. Opener Rohit Sharma made significant strides up the order as he jumped seven places to be joint 12th with Australian swashbuckler Steve Smith and Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq. Rohit scored 330 runs in the tournament.
Australia retained the ODI Shield and won $175,000 after finishing as the number-one ranked side on the April 1 cut-off date. India collected $75,000 for finishing second in the team rankings. Among the bowlers, Australia’s Mitchell Starc has surged to the top for the first time in his career following a stellar performance in the World Cup that also fetched him the player of the tournament award.
Umesh Yadav has broken into the top 20 for the first time in his career following his 15 wickets in the WC. Yadav has rocketed 16 places to join England’s James Tredwell in 18th position. In the rankings for ODI batsmen, AB de Villiers continued to lead the charts and has also become the 11th batsman overall, and second South African after Hashim Amla, to break the 900-point mark. He is now eighth on the list behind Viv Richards (935), Zaheer Abbas (931), Greg Chappell (921), David Gower (919), Dean Jones (918), Javed Miandad (910) and Brian lara (908). Desmond Haynes (900) completes the tally of 11 batsmen.