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Bangladesh’s two pacers Shoriful Islam and Taskin Ahmed have made fine progress in the ICC one-day bowling list. Left-arm pacer Shoriful has climbed two places to number 11, while Taskin has improved nine places to number 12. He made this long leap by taking 3 wickets against Zimbabwe in their first match of the tri-nation series.
The two pacers made their gains in the rankings updated by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday.
Among Bangladesh’s bowlers, only Mehidy Hasan Miraz is in the top ten, placed at number 9 in the list. He has held on to his place in the current rankings. Among Pakistan’s bowlers, Haris Rauf has improved two places to joint 20th.
Rashid Khan, meanwhile, has strengthened his place at the top of the bowlers’ list. He has been rewarded for fine bowling against Zimbabwe in the ongoing tri-nation series; the leg spinner took 4 wickets for only 17 runs in 8 overs, and with that his rating points have risen to 742.
As in one-day cricket, Rashid is also top of the bowlers’ list in Twenty20. Pakistan’s spinner Abrar Ahmed is at number 2 in one-day cricket, and the gap in points between him and Rashid is now 80. South Africa’s spinner Keshav Maharaj is at number three. Rashid has also improved two places in the all-rounders’ list to number 6.
Sediqullah Atal, who played an innings of 102 off 110 balls against Zimbabwe, has improved in the batters’ list; it was on the back of his century that Afghanistan handed Zimbabwe a huge 158-run defeat. Sediqullah has moved up 12 places to number 20. Among Pakistan’s batters, Salman Ali Agha has climbed one place to number 12.
England batter Ben Duckett has moved up two places to number 13. In Twenty20, West Indies batter Shai Hope has moved up two places into the top ten, his current position being number 9. Caribbean batter Sherfane Rutherford has also climbed 6 places to number 18. In the bowlers’ rankings, the Windies’ Gudakesh Motie has moved up 10 places to number 26.
Background
In the ICC’s update of 8 July, Mehidy Hasan Miraz was at number 9 in the one-day bowling list, Shoriful Islam had slipped three places to number 21 and Taskin Ahmed was unchanged at number 29; in that update Nahid Rana climbed 17 places to a career-best number 12 – Dhaka Tribune reported this on 9 July.
Even earlier, in the update of 17 June, Shoriful had climbed 10 places to number 18, Mustafizur Rahman 12 places to joint 25th and Taskin five places to number 27 – the ICC gave this information on 17 June.
The numbers
According to an ICC media release of 15 October 2025, Rashid Khan had at that time returned to the top of the one-day bowling list with 710 rating points, with Keshav Maharaj second, 30 points behind.
At a glance
Positions in the ICC player rankings are determined on a scale of 0 to 1000 points; points rise when recent performances surpass past records and fall when they do not. Each performance is assessed by an automatic algorithm that takes match conditions into account and involves no human or subjective judgement – this explanation is given on the ICC’s own website.
