T20I Rankings: Dawid Malan becomes no.1; KL Rahul, Virat Kohli remain in top-10
Cricket | September 09, 2020 14:41 ISTDawid Malan has moved to no.1 spot in the latest ICC T20I Rankings released on Wednesday.
Dawid Malan has moved to no.1 spot in the latest ICC T20I Rankings released on Wednesday.
Dawid Malan played a key role in England's victory over Australia in the recently-concluded T20I series.
The 33-year-old Malan, who made his debut in the shortest format of the game in 2017, has notched up a ton and seven fifties in the 14 T20Is he has featured in.
Chasing 163 to win at the empty Rose Bowl, Australia collapsed from 124-1 after 14 overs to fall short on 160-6 in their first match of international cricket in six months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dawid Malan slammed the fastest century by an England batsman in T20Is while Eoin Morgan scored 91 as England levelled the five-match series 2-2.
Malan scored 103 not out and stitched a 182-run partnership with skipper Morgan (91) to help England post their highest T20I total of 241/3.
Jason Roy, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler were left out of the squad for the three-match T20I series.
Stokes misses out on the 2nd Test as he faces a court hearing in Bristol after he was involved in a brawl last year, whereas Malan has been dropped after he failed to make an impact in the Birmingham Test.
Curran, who suffered a minor side strain, is expected to be fit for the second and third T20I at Cardiff and Bristol respectively.
After electing to bat first, England was in some bother at 131/4, but Malan scored a gritty hundred and Bairstow played a crucial hand (75 not out) to lift the sagging fortunes of the visitors to finish day 1 on 305/4.
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