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Shakib breaks into top 10 ODI bowlers
Shakib Al Hasan has broken into the top 10 spots in ICC players rankings for ODI bowlers.
Published : 24 Nov 2014, 05:15 PM
Updated : 24 Nov 2014, 05:15 PM
He is now ranked 9th among the ODI bowlers, going up 12 places after Bangladesh’s second win against Zimbabwe on Sunday.
He currently has 638 rating points in the latest ICC rankings.
The top allrounder grabbed five wickets in the first two matches, with 4 for 41 in the first.
The Tigers skipper Mashrafe bin Mortaza is 30th in the list with 569 points.
Shakib also leads the batsmen ranking for Bangladesh. He made his sixth ODI hundred in the first match on Friday but went back without scoring in the second. He is 26th on the batsmen’s list with 609 points.
In the allrounders zone, he stands third in ODIs with 389 points while leading the pack in Tests. Shakib follows Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews (420) and Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez (411) in the one-day allrounders list.
ICC published the rankings on Monday after the five-match series between Australia and South Africa had ended the day before.
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