Kavya Maran’s Sunrisers Hyderabad had a difficult season in IPL 2025 failing to qualify for the Playoffs after reaching the final in 2024. But one of the star performers for the side was young opener Abhishek Sharma who managed to scored 439 runs in 14 matches with an amazing strike-rate of 193.39 with 2 fifties and his maiden IPL century – a mammoth 141 against IPL 2025 finalists Punjab Kings. Now there is more good news for SRH owner Kavya Maran as Abhishek Sharma has become only the fourth Indian cricketer to top the ICC rankings for T20I batters. Abhishek replaces his SRH teammate and opening partner Travis Head as the No. 1 batter after the Australian skipper the five-match T20I series against West Indies recently. In the latest ICC rankings Abhishek Sharma now has 829 points to become the No. 1 batter while Travis Head has slipped to second spot with 814 points. Mumbai Indians batter Tilak Varma is occupying the third position with 804 points while India’s T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav is ranked 6th currently with 739 points.   🚨 ABHISHEK THE NO.1 BATTER. 🚨 - Abhishek Sharma becomes the new No.1 Ranked T20i batter. 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/3fn9fxHvSm — Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) July 30 2025 Which Indian batters have become No. 1 T20I player? The others to become world No. 1 batter in T20I cricket from India apart from Abhishek Sharma are Virat Kohli Gautam Gambhir and Suryakumar Yadav. The 25-year-old Team India opener has scored 535 runs in 17 T20I matches with 2 hundreds and 2 fifties at a strike-rate off over 193 in international cricket. Abhishek’s next assignment will possibly be the Asia Cup 2025 which begins in UAE in September. Abhishek Sharma was retained for Rs 14 crore by Kavya Marans SRH ahead of IPL 2025 mega auction last year. Ravindra Jadeja extends lead at top of ICC all-rounder’s rankings All-rounders Ben Stokes and Ravindra Jadeja have made substantial gains in the ICC Test Player Rankings after their fine performances with both bat and ball in the drawn fourth Test of the ICC World Test Championship series between England and India. England captain Stokes has progressed three places to third position among all-rounders his highest position since December 2022. The formerly top-ranked all-rounder’s knock of 141 in England’s only innings and a haul of six wickets that included a five-for in the first innings has also helped him move up eight slots to 34th among batters and up from 45th to 42nd among bowlers. Jadeja has inflated his lead at the top of the rankings for all-rounders after grabbing four wickets and scoring a fighting 107 not out. He has added 13 rating points and is now on an aggregate of 422 117 rating points clear of Bangladesh’s Mehidy Hasan. He has also moved up five places to 29th among batters and up one place to 14th among bowlers. Joe Root’s score of 150 at Old Trafford has increased his lead at the top of the batting rankings to 37 rating points over second-placed Kane Williamson while openers Ben Duckett (up five places to 10th) and Zak Crawley (up two places to 43rd) have also made notable progress. Ollie Pope has inched up to 24th position. India all-rounder Washington Sundar’s unbeaten 101 in the second innings during which he put on 203 runs with Jadeja for the unbroken fifth wicket that helped India draw the Test has helped him climb up eight places to 65th position. Sundar has also moved up eight positions to joint-13th among all-rounders having also taken two wickets in the match. The Test bowling rankings see fast bowler Jofra Archer continue his impressive return after four years his haul of three for 73 lifting him 38 places to 63rd position. Chris Woakes is up one place to 23rd after finishing with three wickets in the match which included a double-strike early in the Indian second innings.