{"id":479,"date":"2026-07-01T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/?p=479"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:21:43","slug":"abrar-ahmed-climbs-to-no-2-in-latest-icc-t20i-bowling-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/abrar-ahmed-climbs-to-no-2-in-latest-icc-t20i-bowling-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrar Ahmed Climbs to No. 2 in Latest ICC T20I Bowling Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE:<\/strong> Pakistan spinner <strong>Abrar Ahmed<\/strong> has moved up to <strong>second place<\/strong> in the latest <strong>ICC Men&#8217;s T20I Bowling Rankings<\/strong>, continuing his impressive run in international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery spinner gained one position in the updated rankings after collecting <strong>736 rating points<\/strong>, moving ahead of India&#8217;s <strong>Varun Chakaravarthy<\/strong>. Afghanistan&#8217;s <strong>Rashid Khan<\/strong> remains the world&#8217;s top-ranked T20I bowler with <strong>753 rating points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Abrar&#8217;s latest rise is another major milestone in his career and reflects his consistent performances for Pakistan in the shortest format of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Several other Pakistani bowlers also retained strong positions in the ICC rankings. <strong>Mohammad Nawaz<\/strong> stayed 12th, while <strong>Salman Mirza<\/strong> remained in 20th place. Fast bowler <strong>Shaheen Shah Afridi<\/strong> continued to hold 30th position.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the list, <strong>Usman Tariq<\/strong>, <strong>Sufiyan Muqeem<\/strong>, <strong>Saim Ayub<\/strong>, <strong>Shadab Khan<\/strong>, <strong>Haris Rauf<\/strong> and <strong>Abbas Afridi<\/strong> also featured among the world&#8217;s leading T20I bowlers.<\/p>\n<p>In the batting rankings, Pakistan opener <strong>Sahibzada Farhan<\/strong> kept his place among the world&#8217;s best, remaining <strong>third overall<\/strong>. India&#8217;s <strong>Ishan Kishan<\/strong> climbed to the top spot, while <strong>Abhishek Sharma<\/strong> slipped to second.<\/p>\n<p>Among other Pakistani batters, <strong>Saim Ayub<\/strong>, <strong>Babar Azam<\/strong>, <strong>Salman Ali Agha<\/strong> and <strong>Fakhar Zaman<\/strong> all remained inside the ICC rankings, with Fakhar moving up one position.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan also continued to make an impact in the all-rounders&#8217; rankings. <strong>Saim Ayub<\/strong> held on to third place, while <strong>Mohammad Nawaz<\/strong>, <strong>Shadab Khan<\/strong>, <strong>Faheem Ashraf<\/strong>, <strong>Salman Ali Agha<\/strong> and <strong>Shaheen Shah Afridi<\/strong> also secured places in the latest list.<\/p>\n<p>The updated rankings underline Pakistan&#8217;s growing strength in T20 cricket as several players continue to feature among the world&#8217;s top performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed has moved up to second place in the latest ICC Men&#8217;s T20I Bowling Rankings, continuing his impressive run in international cricket. The mystery spinner gained one position in the updated rankings after collecting 736 rating points, moving ahead of India&#8217;s Varun Chakaravarthy. Afghanistan&#8217;s Rashid Khan remains the world&#8217;s top-ranked T20I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[147,148],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abrar-ahmed","tag-abrar-t20-ranking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}