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Dubai: Mark Chapman of New Zealand and Iftikhar Ahmed of Pakistan reached career-high positions in the ICC T20 men’s rankings at the end of the five-match series.Suryakumar Yadav continues to top the rankings and is the only Indian in the top ten.Highest 290 in the series Run-scorer Chapman jumped 48 places to take the 35th spot. Earlier in February 2018, he reached the 54th position.
On the other hand, Iftikhar, who scored 36 runs in the last match, has climbed six places to reach 38th position. Mohammad Rizwan is second and Babar Azam is in third place. In the 4 T20I series against New Zealand, both of them had a chance to dislodge Suryakumar Yadav from the No. 1 spot as all the teams are busy in IPL and New Zealand’s second-string team was on the field. Rizwan and Babar were the second and third top scorers after Mark Chapman. Rizwan scored 162 runs in 5 matches of the series and missed a century in the last T20. At the same time, thanks to a century, Babar Azam scored a total of 130 runs.
Iftikhar had earlier reached 43rd position in November last year. New Zealand’s Chad Bowes has moved up 82 places to 118th position while Ish Sodhi has moved up to 14th position in bowling. Pakistan all-rounder Imad Wasim has gained 15 places to reach 127th position in the batsmen’s rankings while he has gained 120 places to reach 93rd position in the bowlers’ rankings. In the rankings for all-rounders, he has climbed 44 places to be at 24th position.