India star claims top spot again after South African series

Pandya wasn’t the only Indian player to make big strides in the latest rankings update, with Player of the Series and emerging impressive young batsman Varma shooting up a whopping 69 places in the batting chart after his two centuries and 280 runs for the series against the Proteas.

Men’s T20I batsman rankings

The rise improves Varma to third in the overall rankings behind No. 1 T20I batsman Travis Head, meaning he is now India’s highest-rated batsman, while skipper Suryakumar Yadav drops one spot to fourth behind him.

Teammate Sanju Samson – who also hit two centuries during the series with South Africa – moves up 17 places to 22nd on the same list for T20I batters, while the Proteas will be happy with the continued improvement made by Tristan Stubbs ( up three rungs to 23rd place). and Heinrich Klaasen (up six places to 59th).