New Delhi, 19 February (HS): ICC Champions Trophy 2025 ki aaj se bakuri ho chuki hai hai. The first match is being played between the hosts Pakistan and the New Zealand team. The Indian team will play its first match against Bangladesh on Thursday. Due to this, Shubman Gill, the opener of the Indian team, has become the number one ODI batsman in the world. He has overtaken former Pakistan captain Babar Azam to the top spot. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the latest rankings on Wednesday.

According to this, Gill has become the number one ODI batsman. Gill has 796 rating points. Pakistan's Babar Azam has lost one position. Babar is at the second position with 773 rating points. Four Indian batsmen with Gill in top 10. Along with Shubman Gill, there are four players from the Indian team in the top 10 batsmen in ODIs. Apart from Gill, Indian captain Rohit Sharma is at the third position, star batsman Virat Kohli is at the sixth position and middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer is at the ninth position. South Africa's Henrik Klaassen is fourth while New Zealand's Daryl Mitchell is fifth.

Gill in the fabulous farm

This is the second time Gill has achieved the number one ranking in ODI cricket. The batsman had overtaken Babar to take the top spot in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup in 2023.

Gill has been in superb form for some time now and scored a century of 112 runs against England in the third match of the recently concluded three-match ODI series in Ahmedabad. He scored a total of 259 runs in the three matches of the series. Shreyas was also in great form. He scored 181 runs in three matches.

Rohit also scored a century. India won this series by 3-0. Among the bowlers, Mahesh Tikshan became the number one, among the bowlers, Sri Lanka's Mahesh Tikshan has come to the top, leaving behind the spinner Rashid Khan of the Afghanistan team. He has 680 rating points.

Rashid has slipped to the second position with 669 points. Bernard Scholz of Namibia is at the third position with 662 points. Indian spinner Kuldeep Yadav improved by one place and reached the fourth position with 652 rating points. Apart from him in the top 10 is Mohammad Siraj, who is ranked 10th. Pakistan's Shaheen Afridi has slipped to fifth place with a loss of one place.

Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar