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Dec 22, 2021 PTI Australia's Marnus Labuschagne has replaced England captain Joe Root to go atop the standings for the first time in his career. Another Aussie Steve Smith take the 3rd spot. India's Rohit Sharma is at fifth.
Nov 24, 2021 PTI Among the other Indians in the fray, Bhuvneshwar Kumar rose to 19th while Deepak Chahar reached 40th position in the bowlers' list of the latest ICC T20I rankings.
England's Jos Buttler, who notched up his maiden T20 international century against Sri Lanka, gained eight slots to reach a career-best ninth position.
Oct 27, 2021 PTI The top nine names in the bowlers’ list are all slow bowlers with Bangladesh spinner Mahedi Hasan’s consistent economical bowling lifting him nine places to a career-best 12th position.
The Australians dominate the ranking chart as besides top-ranked Beth Mooney, two other from the country -- skipper Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy (6th) -- feature in the top 10.
In the ODI rankings, Kohli and vice-captain Rohit Sharma remained second and third spots respectively, behind Pakistan skipper Babar Azam
India's T20 vice-captain Smriti Mandhana is ranked fourth while Jemimah Rodrigues is the third Indian batter at ninth position
According to the ICC, these updates eliminate results from 2017-18 and halve the weighting of matches played in 2019-20, which includes the 2019 World Cup
Rizwan is the second-highest ranked Pakistan batsman in the list, only behind captain Babar Azam, who is now in third place.
Shafali Verma, who had regained the top position last week, garnered 26 rating points and is now currently on 776 rating points
Captain Virat Kohli is now the highest-ranked Indian in the T20 rankings, ahead of K L Rahul
Shafali Verma, who grabbed the top position for the first time after helping India reach the knockout phase of the T20 World Cup last year, has leapfrogged Australia's Beth Mooney
KL Rahul remains the top-ranked Indian batsmen at the fourth spot despite three failures in the series so far.
Australia's 2-3 loss to New Zealand in a recent five-game series pushed the side below India with just one point separating the two.
With 816 rating points, Rahul is behind England's Dawid Malan (915) who retained his top spot, while Kohli has 697 points.
Australia white-ball skipper Aaron Finch (808) also improved a rung to be placed third while Pakistan captain Babar Azam (801) slipped to fourth place.
KL Rahul and Virat Kohli are the only two Indians to feature in the top-10 list of players rankings in all three categories -- batsman, bowlers and all-rounders
England batsman Dawid Malan retained the top spot, while Australian limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch slipped to the fourth spot. Pakistan captain Babar Azam is second
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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