India's superlative show against New Zealand saw the Men in Blue whitewashing the Black Caps 5-0 in the T20 International series resulting in several players climbing up the International Cricket Council rankings. Kannur Lokesh Rahul topped the batting charts in the series and jumped four places in the ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings to grab a career best-equaling second place. Several other Indian players, too, made the upward journey thanks to their good show against New Zealand.

Rohit Sharma entered the top 10 climbing three places,Shreyas Iyer moved to 55th position jumping a massive 63 places while ManishPandey reached 58th which is 12 places up from his last ranking. Captain Virat Kohli stays ninth after scoring 105 runs in four matches. India has the maximumrepresentation in the top 10 T20I batsmen rankings with KL Rahul, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma making the cut.The top batsman is Babar Azam of Pakistan with879 points while Australian skipper Aaron Finch, New Zealand's Colin Munro andDawid Malan of England make the top five.

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson, who missed the last twoT20I against India due to an injury, has also seen his rank improve from 23 to16 thanks to his 160 runs in the series while wicketkeeper-batsman Tim Seiferthas made a quantum jump from 73 to 34. Veteran batsman Ross Taylor is nowranked 39 while leg-spinner Ish Sodhi is at the 13th position among bowlers.

Indian bowlers, too, have made rapid strides in the rankingswith star pacer Jasprit Bumrah at 11 after moving up 26 places, SpinnerYuzvendra Chahal is now ranked 30th up from the 40th positing in the lastrankings while Shardul Thakur’s eight wickets in the series have lifted him 34places to 57th position. Navdeep Saini has also reasons to cheer as he hasmoved up 25 places to 71st while Ravindra Jadeja is at 76.For Pakistan,experienced players Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez have advanced to 45th and71th positions, respectively, after slamming a half-century each in thethree-match series. Babar Azam, the third Pakistan batsman to score ahalf-century in the series, has retained the top position as well as hisaggregate of 879 points.

Left-arm fast bowler Shaheen Afridi has moved up from 72ndto 39th position with two wickets in the series, which the home side won 2-0,with one match abandoned, to retain the top rank in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’sT20I Team Rankings.

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal, who top-scored in the serieswith an aggregate of 104 runs, has gained 11 slots to reach 50th position. AlAmin-Hossain is at 51st position among bowlers after gaining 25 places.