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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Pooran, Cottrell move up ICC ranking

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Vinode Mamchan, England
2179 days ago
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West Indies' Nicholas Pooran, left, bats during the Cricket World Cup match between Afghanistan and West Indies at Headingley in Leeds, England on Thursday. (AP)

West Indies' Nicholas Pooran, left, bats during the Cricket World Cup match between Afghanistan and West Indies at Headingley in Leeds, England on Thursday. (AP)

Rui Vieira

The two most con­sis­tent play­ers for the West In­dies at the 2019 ICC World Cup in Eng­land, Nico­las Pooran and Shel­don Cot­trell have moved up in the ICC ODI rank­ings in the bat­ting and bowl­ing cat­e­gories re­spec­tive­ly.

Pooran who was out­side the 400 rank po­si­tion has end­ed the tour­na­ment as the 92nd ranked bats­man. The T&T left-han­der, who cracked two half-cen­turies (58 against Afghanistan) and his maid­en cen­tu­ry 118 against Sri Lan­ka on Ju­ly 1, fin­ished with 367 runs at an av­er­age of 52.42, to at the top of the heap, as far as runs scored among West In­dies play­ers.

An­oth­er West In­di­an in Shim­ron Het­my­er al­so moved up three places and is now 26th in the rank­ings. The Guyanese left-han­der scored the sec­ond-high­est num­ber of runs 257 at an av­er­age of 36.71 with two half-cen­turies (54 against New Zealand and 50 against Bangladesh).

Com­ing in­to the World Cup Cot­trell was ranked 82nd in the world in ODI bowl­ing. He is now at po­si­tion num­ber 40 at the end of the tour­na­ment. He fin­ished with 12 wick­ets at 32.66 with the best haul of 4/56 against New Zealand.

West In­dies as a team slipped one po­si­tion and is now ninth in the ICC ODI rat­ings af­ter their per­for­mance, which saw them win on­ly two match­es in the nine-match pre­lim­i­nar­ies. Their clash against South Africa end­ed in a draw.

Mean­while, In­dia cap­tain Vi­rat Kohli has re­tained the top po­si­tion among bats­men af­ter scor­ing five half-cen­turies so far.

Open­er Ro­hit Shar­ma has bridged the gap in the lat­est rank­ings af­ter get­ting five cen­turies so far.

Kohli’s 442 runs at an av­er­age of 63.14 have seen him gain one point and reach 891 points while Ro­hit has bridged the gap from 51 points to on­ly six af­ter be­com­ing the first bats­man to score five cen­turies in the World Cup. His 885 points go­ing in­to the se­mi-fi­nals are a ca­reer-high.

In­dia’s new-ball bowler Jasprit Bum­rah has ex­tend­ed his lead at the top from 21 points to 56 points af­ter grab­bing 17 wick­ets in the nine league match­es at the World Cup, with Boult re­main­ing in sec­ond place af­ter a mem­o­rable league phase that in­clud­ed a hat-trick against Aus­tralia, the first-ever in ODI crick­et at Lord’s.

Afghanistan spin­ners Mu­jeeb-ur-Rah­man and Rashid Khan re­main in the top-10 de­spite their team los­ing all match­es, while Aus­tralia’s Mitchell Starc and Mo­ham­mad Amir have im­proved de­spite not com­ing in­to the tour­na­ment with many im­pres­sive per­for­mances.


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