ICC ODI ranking: The South Africa cricket team is currently on a tour of Australia. After the T20 series, ODI series is being played between the two teams. In the first match of this ODI series, South Africa defeated Australia by a big margin of 98 runs.
In South Africa’s victory, left -arm spinner Keshav Maharaj took 5 wickets while bowling brilliantly and contributed significantly to the team’s victory. He has directly benefited from this excellent performance and has reached the first place in the ICC ODI rankings.
Keshav Maharaj becomes number 1 ODI bowler
Keshav Maharaj (Keshav Maharaj) has reached the first place in the latest ranking of ICC ODI bowlers. He has jumped two places with 687 points and has surpassed Mahesh Thakshana and Kuldeep Yadav. Now Thakaphana has slipped second and Kuldeep Yadav has slipped to third place. Keshav Maharaj considers Hinduism and is considered a great devotee of Hanuman ji.
Apart from this, Bernard Scoltz of Namibia is at fourth place, followed by Rashid Khan of Afghanistan, Mitchell Sentner sixth of New Zealand, Matt Henry Seventh, Sri Lanka’s Vanindu Hasranga eighth, Ravindra Jadeja Ninth of India and Adam Jampa of Australia are present at tenth.
Keshav Maharaj made a big record in the first ODI
In the first ODI against Australia, Keshav Maharaj (Keshav Maharaj) bowled brilliantly and took 5 wickets. He took 5 wickets in his 10 overs, spending just 33 runs. With this, he became the first spinner to take 300 wickets in international cricket for South Africa. Talking about Maharaj’s international career, he has so far taken 203 wickets in 59 Tests, 63 in 49 ODIs and 38 wickets in 39 T20 matches.
There is no change in batting rankings
On the other hand there has been no change in the ICC ODI batting rankings. Initially when the ranking was released, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s names were not in the list, but both were later included back. At present, Shubman Gill is in the first place, while Rohit Sharma, Babar Azam and Virat Kohli are present at the second, third and fourth positions respectively.
