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Afghanistan’s young opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz has created history in the ODI format. This young lad is just 23 years old and has played 43 ODI matches for Afghanistan. Within the initial stage of his career, he has made 7 centuries and 6 half-centuries in international cricket with an average of 39.54 and his best score stands at 151.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz has scored the most runs against Bangladesh in ODIs, i.e. 341. Recently in this series of ODI against South Africa, he scored a brilliant century. While playing in this ODI series, Gurbaz presented a great display of batting.
He one-handedly took the responsibility of making the runs from his end in the last match of the series where he made 89 runs. Due to his stargazing performance in the series, he was awarded with player of the series as well.
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Rahmanullah Gurbaz reached the eighth position in the ODI rankings
After the series, ICC announced the player’s list of ranking in the ODI on Wednesday. Simultaneously, in the ODI series of Afghanistan and South Africa, Rahmanullah Gurbaz delivered this exceptional performance against South Africa. Due to this, he has jumped 10 places in the list of ODI batsmen. With this, he has now made a unique record in his name.
At present, he has now become the first Afghan player to reach the top 10 in the ICC ODI batting rankings. The history was created by him securing the eighth position. In the latest list of ODI rankings, Gurabaz has a total of 692 rating points in his account. Fortunately, if Gurbaz manages to maintain his rhythm in the upcoming matches, then he can soon make his place in the top 5 as well.
Before Rahmanullah Gurbaz, the record of the highest ODI batting ranking from Afghanistan was registered in the name of batsman Ibrahim Zadran. At that time, this Afghan batsman had achieved the 12th ranking in ODI. Apart from Gurbaz’s ranking, Australia’s opener Travis Head has also entered the top 10 and by looking at his monstrous hard-hitting, sooner he can be at the top of the list.
At present, Travis Head is in ninth place with 684 points, he is looking in great form at this time as he just scored 214 runs in three matches of the ongoing ODI series against England which includes his unbeaten innings of 154 in this ongoing ODI series. Apart from this, Afghanistan’s star spinner Rashid Khan has benefited in the ODI bowlers’ ranking.
Rashid Khan has climbed eight places to third in the ODI bowlers’ ranking. At present, he has 665 rating points. In the latest ODI series, he also played exceptionally well after coming back from injury. Rashid took seven wickets against South Africa. Meanwhile, India’s bowler Kuldeep Yadav is in fourth place with 665 rating points and to talk about first place, South Africa’s spinner Keshav Maharaj is sitting here with 695 rating points. Australia’s bowler Adam Zampa has reached second place with 681 rating points.
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