West Indies’ Brandon King performs a shot towards New Zealand in the course of the third T20 cricket match at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022.
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Just some days earlier than the beginning of the June 1-29 Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) males’s Twenty/20 World Cup, the West Indies crew jumped from sixth to fourth within the standings.
Two-time T20 World Cup champions, the West Indies warmed up for the World Cup with an excellent 3-0 T20 collection win towards South Africa from Could 23-26 at Sabina Park in Jamaica with each groups lacking a number of key gamers being dedicated to the Indian Premier League (IPL) and others.
India is on the prime of the T20 rankings with 264 ranking factors. They’re carefully adopted by the final two T20 World Cup winners Australia with 257 ranking factors, who’re second and England with 254 ranking factors who’re third. Australia gained the 2021 T20 World Cup title, whereas England copped the 2022 crown.
The Caribbean crew are simply behind the Englishmen on the standings with 252 ranking factors whereas New Zealand, are fifth on the standings with 250 factors.
After the Proteas’ collection loss in Jamaica, they dropped three spots to seventh place and now have 244 ranking factors.
On the final two editions of the T20 World Cup, the West Indies did not advance to the knockout part of both event.
West Indies received their newest collection win towards the Proteas with out standout gamers akin to Andre Russell, Nicholas Pooran and captain Rovman Powell.
Brandon King captained the Caribbean crew for the South Africa collection. King climbed 5 spots to eighth within the T20 batting rankings as he scored 159 runs within the collection. Opening batsman Johnson Charles, who gained the Man of the Match within the ultimate T20, climbed 17 spots and now sits at twentieth. Pooran is tied at 18th spot.
In the meantime, within the bowling division, left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein slipped 5 spots and is now ranked eighth.
The Windies opened their World Cup marketing campaign on June 2 versus Papua New Guinea in Guyana.
