While Pakistan skipper Babar Azam remains well in front in the ODI batter rankings, Gill rises to 743 rating points on the back of his excellent series against the West Indies. There are some promising signs for India’s best white-ball players less than two months out of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, with a host of their stars making significant ground in the latest ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings.

Inexperienced pair Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan were among India’s most prominent performers with the bat during their 2-1 ODI series triumph over the West Indies recently, with the pair combining for 310 runs over the three matches in an impressive display of top-order batting.

Both players were rewarded with new career-high ratings on the rankings list for batters that was updated by the ICC on Wednesday, with Gill improving two places to fifth overall to be within touching distance of a pair of Pakistan players.

While Pakistan skipper Babar Azam (886) remains well out in front in the ODI batter rankings, Gill rises to 743 rating points on the back of his excellent series against the West Indies and has third-placed Fakhar Zaman (755) and fourth-placed Imam-ul-Haq (745) well within his sight.