Pakistan skipper Babar Azam's lead at the head of the ODI Batting Rankings has been reduced to just six rating points as India's Shubman Gill and a host of stars in stunning form at the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup close in on the Pakistan skipper.
Star India batsmen Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and other cricketers like Quinton de Kock and Dawid Malan are the big movers inside the top 10 of the ODI Batting Rankings which was published on Wednesday.
The closest challengers to Babar Azam who is at the top of the ICC ODI Batting Rankings will get ample opportunity to dethrone the Pakistan captain as the Asia Cup gets underway on Wednesday.
India cruised to a comprehensive victory over the West Indies in the opening Test of the two-match ICC World Test Championship series in Dominica earlier this month and both Rohit and Jaiswal were prominent with superb centuries.
Athapaththu claims top billing from Australia opener Beth Mooney on the back of her excellent series against New Zealand that netted a total of 248 runs from three matches and included an amazing knock of 140* from just 80 deliveries that helped Sri Lanka record an unlikely series triumph.
With an outstanding performance in the first innings in the World Test Championship final, Australian batter Travis Head has jumped to the third position in the ICC Men's Test Batting Rankings
Tector has been enjoying a sustained period of good batting form in One Day International (ODI) and his recent run-scoring feats have seen him shoot to his highest-ever position of seventh spot in the ICC Men's ODI batting rankings
Tector scored a career-best 140 during the second match of Ireland's recent ODI series against Bangladesh in Chelmsford and the 23-year-old finished that series as the leading run-scorer with 206 runs from three entertaining knocks.
Pakistan opener Fakhar Zaman has become Babar Azam's closest rankings challenger after he was rewarded for his recent dominance with massive gains on the latest ICC Men's ODI Batting Rankings. Fakhar has commenced Pakistan's ongoing ODI series at home against New Zealand in a blaze of glory,