Sri Lanka batter Pavan Rathnayake has climbed 20 places to 16th in the latest ICC Men’s ODI Batting Rankings after finishing as the leading run-scorer in the tri-series in Pakistan.
Rathnayake scored 427 runs in five matches, including two centuries and two half-centuries, Daily Mirror Sports reported on Wednesday.
Where Sri Lanka now sits
Kusal Mendis remains Sri Lanka’s highest-ranked batter at 12th.
Janith Liyanage has slipped from 14th to 18th.
India’s Shubman Gill continues to lead the rankings.
The run that produced it
A 20-place jump in a single cycle is large, and the scale of it follows directly from the volume: 427 runs across five innings, with half of those innings passing fifty and two of them passing a hundred, in a tournament against Pakistan and England.
Rathnayake’s rise means Sri Lanka now hold three batters inside the top 20, with Mendis at 12, Rathnayake at 16 and Liyanage at 18 — though Liyanage’s four-place fall over the same period is a reminder that the list moves both ways on the same results.
Not reported
The filing does not give rating points for any of the players named, state the date of the ranking update, or say where Rathnayake ranked before the climb beyond the 20-place figure. It does not report the tri-series result or the matches in which the two centuries were made, and gives no movement for Sri Lanka’s bowlers or all-rounders.
This desk found no second verified newsroom carrying the ranking update at the time of writing; the ICC’s own release was not located.
