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Virat, Raina among top-ten T20 batsmen

New Delhi: Though T20 format of the cricket pulls maximum crowd to the stadium in India yet only two Indians namely dashing delhi batsman Virat Kohli and left hander Suresh Raina figure in the list

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New Delhi: Though T20 format of the cricket pulls maximum crowd to the stadium in India yet only two Indians namely dashing delhi batsman Virat Kohli and left hander Suresh Raina figure in the list of top -10 T20  ranking  released by ICC Wednesday.




Virat Kohli is the highest-ranked Indian batsman at joint sixth but there is no Indian presence in the top-10 of the bowlers' list.

Suresh Raina is ranked at while Yuvraj Singh being a distant next best at 16th.Off-spinner R Ashwin is the highest-ranked Indian bowler at 16th in the chart.

Sri Lanka is number one T20 side with Pakistan at second.  Pakistan will have the opportunity to reduce the gap when they begin their two-match Twenty20 International series against Zimbabwe on August 23.

Currently ranked second with 124 ratings points, Mohammad Hafeez's side can gain one ratings point if it wins both the matches, to finish with 125 ratings points and thereby reduce the gap with number-one ranked Sri Lanka (128) to three.

Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez is currently ranked second among all-rounders with a career-high 432 ratings points, and is also fourth in the bowlers list and 17th among the batsmen.

In the bowling table, Saeed Ajmal in second and Shahid Afridi in 11th are the other Pakistan players inside the top 20.

For Zimbabwe, spinner Prosper Utseya is the only bowler inside the top 10, in ninth position.The bowlers' list is still headed by West Indies' Sunil Narine, with Sri Lanka's Ajantha Mendis in third.