TIL Desk Sports/ India’s Virat Kohli retained his second spot in the latest ICC Player Rankings for ODI Batsmen but Australian opener David Warner was breathing down his neck with just two points behind in the chart issued today.
Warner cut Kohli’s earlier 62 point lead to just two following a stellar performance in the Chappell-Hadlee series against New Zealand, which concluded in Melbourne yesterday with Australia winning 3-0. Warner finished as the leading run-getter with 299 runs in three matches to consolidate his number three ranking. South Africa’s AB de Villiers is still the number one ranked batsman with 13 points ahead of Kohli.
The fight for the No.1 ranking will resume next month when Kohli is expected to feature in the three-match series against England (January 15-23), Warner will take the field against Pakistan in the five-match series (January 13-26) and de Villiers is set to lead South Africa in the five-ODI series against Sri Lanka (January 28 to February 10). Meanwhile, New Zealand opener Martin Guptill and Australia’s trio of Steve Smith, Mitchell Marsh and Josh Hazelwood have all achieved career-high rankings.
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