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ICC Rankings: Daryl Mitchell dethrones Virat Kohli from top spot in ODIs | Cricket News

ICC Rankings: Daryl Mitchell dethrones Virat Kohli from top spot in ODIs | Cricket News

Following his stupendous show against India in the ODI series, New Zealand batter Daryl Mitchell displaced Indian superstar Virat Kohli in the latest ICC ODI rankings for batters on Wednesday. Mitchell was on a roll in the series against India scoring 352 runs in the three-game series with two hundreds and a fifty. His series total was the most ever by a New Zealander in a three-match ODI series and the third-most of all time, behind only Pakistan’s Babar Azam (360 against the West Indies in 2016) and India’s Shubman Gill (360 against New Zealand in 2023). Mitchell’s super show meant that New Zealand won the series 1-2 to end a 37-year-wait and recorded their first-ever series win in the ODI format on the Indian soil. “With 845 ranking points, he aptly replaces Kohli (795 points) who drops to No.2 on the list in the latest rankings release. The pair sit well clear of a chasing pack that includes Ibrahim Zadran, Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill and Babar Azam,” the ICC said in a statement. It …

ICC Test rankings: Virat Kohli out of top 20 for first time in 10 years | Cricket News

ICC Test rankings: Virat Kohli out of top 20 for first time in 10 years | Cricket News

Virat Kohli slipped out of the top 20 in the ICC Test batting rankings for the first time in 10 years on Wednesday. Kohli, who turned 36 on Wednesday, last found himself outside the top 20 Test batters on the ICC rankings in December 2014. The slump back then for the former India captain had come on the back of a horror England tour where he scored 134 runs at a lowly 13.4 average across five Tests. Kohli has maintained his spot among the top players in the format since, achieving the best years of his Test career between 2016 and 2018. Kohli vaulted to the top of the ICC Test batting rankings in 2018 and then became the first Indian to have achieved the No. 1 ranking in all three formats. While the India No. 4 went past 9000 Test runs in the recent series against New Zealand, Kohli endured his worst-ever aggregate in a Test series at home where he has batted in at least six innings. Kohli aggregated only 93 runs in …