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Total surrender by India in England, Shreyas Iyer’s team swept 4-0 | Cricket News

Total surrender by India in England, Shreyas Iyer’s team swept 4-0 | Cricket News

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4 min readMumbaiJul 12, 2026 12:08 AM IST For India’s T20 team, the start of a new era was supposed to bring fresh possibilities. Taking the captaincy from Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer was supposed to usher the team into a new direction after the T20 World Cup triumph. The regime change was supposed to be smooth. It has been anything but. Six completed games into Iyer’s captaincy across Ireland and England, India remain without a win, slipping to another defeat, this time by 56 runs in Southampton. With this loss, they have also lost their No. 1 ranking to England. Chasing 258 for a consolation win in the fifth T20I, India needed one of their best batting efforts of the series to avoid a 4-0 defeat. The drama began even before a ball was bowled. Sanju Samson was surprisingly recalled to the playing XI after missing the last three games. He showed his compatriots how to counter the short ball by pulling Josh Tongue twice into the stands in the second over. India needed much …

India lose No 1 T20I ranking after 56-run loss completes 4-0 sweep at hands of England | Cricket News

India lose No 1 T20I ranking after 56-run loss completes 4-0 sweep at hands of England | Cricket News

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2 min readUpdated: Jul 11, 2026 11:19 PM IST India succumbed to another T20I defeat at the hands of England to lose the five-match T20I series by a 4-0 margin. Saturday’s loss by 56 runs meant that the Men in Blue are winless under new T20I captain Shreyas Iyer, having lost four matches in England (with one match being a wash out) after two defeats on the tour of Ireland. The twin series sweeps meant that India were overtaken by England as the world’s no 1 T20I team, with India losing the No 1 rank for the first time in four years. India’s struggles on Saturday started even before the toss, after the team was delayed in reaching the stadium due to traffic jam at Southampton. Iyer won another toss, his seventh successive correct call, and opted to bowl first. But at the toss, Iyer made the announcement that Sanju Samson was being brought into the XI in place of 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (who played three games in the series and managed 42 runs). “I …

Ishan Kishan rises to No.1 in T20I rankings, ends Abhishek Sharma’s long reign

Ishan Kishan rises to No.1 in T20I rankings, ends Abhishek Sharma’s long reign

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2 min readJul 1, 2026 09:40 PM IST Ishan Kishan is the new top-ranked T20I batsman in the world, thus ending his teammate Abhishek Sharma’s stay in the position despite India suffering a historic 2-0 series loss to Ireland. It marks yet another milestone in a remarkable turnaround in Kishan’s career, with the wicketkeeper-batter having been frozen out of the Indian team for more than two years before making his comeback last year and playing a crucial role in them defending their T20 World Cup crown. The International Cricket Council said that Kishan’s rise comes largely due to his performance in the tournament, having scored 317 runs at a strike rate of almost 200. It thus ended a year-long stay at the top for Abhishek and Kishan has now become the fourth Indian to take the top spot in the T20I rankings, with Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav being the other two players in the club. “There are only seven rating points separating the two Indian players at the top of the rankings for T20I …

Varun Chakravarthy strengthens grip at the top of ICC T20I rankings | Cricket News

Varun Chakravarthy strengthens grip at the top of ICC T20I rankings | Cricket News

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Varun Chakravarthy has strengthened his grip on the top spot in the ICC’s men’s T20I rankings for bowlers. The 34-year-old has now got 818 rating points to his name, the highest ever for any Indian bowler in the rankings history and the eighth highest on the all-time list. Chakravarthy has six wickets across the first three matches of India’s ongoing five-match series against South Africa as he continues to be India’s most dependable wicket-taker in the format since his return to the squad in October last year. Chakravarthy now holds a 119-point advantage over his closest rival in New Zealand seamer Jacob Duffy (699) in second-place, while also moving inside the top 10 for the best rating of all-time for T20I bowlers. Left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh also improved four places to 16th overall on the rankings for T20I bowlers on the back of his Player of the Match heroics against the Proteas in the third game. For South Africa, Marco Jansen (up 14 spots to 25th), Lungi Ngidi (up 11 rungs to 44th) and Ottneil …

ICC T20I bowling rankings: Adil Rashid reclaims No. 1 spot, Varun Chakaravarthy reaches career-high No. 5 | Cricket News

ICC T20I bowling rankings: Adil Rashid reclaims No. 1 spot, Varun Chakaravarthy reaches career-high No. 5 | Cricket News

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England spinner Adil Rashid reclaimed the top spot on the latest ICC T20I bowling rankings update on Thursday after his performances in the ongoing T20I series against India. The veteran English leggie who was top of the charts for a majority of the last two years vaulted back to the top spot after West Indies left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein’s brief stay at the top. Rashid has been among England’s prime bowlers in the series where they have signalled a turnaround with victory in Rajkot after two defeats to start the series in Kolkata and Chennai. The 36-year-old’s economical four-over analysis of 1/15 in the third T20I eventually helped England eke out a 26-run win over the hosts. Besides Rashid, England seamer Jofra Archer also burst back into the top 10, jumping 13 spots to No. 6 on the charts. Story continues below this ad While India’s leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi slid down to No. 10, his compatriot Varun Chakaravarthy rose to a career-high No. 5 spot with his rating rising to 659. Chakarvarthy’s sensational five-wicket haul …

ICC T20I Rankings: Hardik Pandya becomes number 1 and Tilak Varma shoots up 69 places to reach 3rd | Cricket News

ICC T20I Rankings: Hardik Pandya becomes number 1 and Tilak Varma shoots up 69 places to reach 3rd | Cricket News

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ICC t20I Latest ranking: Indian star all-rounder Hardik Pandya reclaimed the number one spot in the ICC T20I rankings after the conclusion of the side’s four-match series against South Africa. The 31-year-old who was in third position before has taken over from England’s Liam Livingstone and Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee. His innings of 39 not out in the second game of the four-match series helped balance India’s innings, while his spell of 1/8 from three overs during the decisive fourth contest ensured his side claim an impressive 3-1 series triumph. It is the second time Pandya has held the No.1 ranking for T20I all-rounders, with the consistent India performer first rising to the top at the end of this year’s ICC men’s T20 World Cup. In addition to Hardik, Tilak Varma who scored back-to-back tons in the same series against South Africa has gone up 69 places and has currently reached a career-best third rank in the T20I series. Varma has been judged with Player Of the Series for his heroics in the bilateral competition. …