New Delhi, March 4 -- Pakistan opening batter Sahibzada Farhan has closed in on India's star batter Abhishek Sharma's No. 1 position in the ICC Men's T20I batting rankings after the latest updates to the ICC rankings on Wednesday, according to the ICC website.

Farhan became the first player to register two centuries in a single ICC Men's T20 World Cup, reaching the milestone with a brilliant hundred against Sri Lanka in Pallekele in both teams' last Super 8s match of the World Cup 2026. That performance lifted him one spot to second in the T20I batting rankings, where he also achieved a new career-best rating.

Abhishek Sharma leads the T20I batting rankings by 26 rating points over Sahibzada Farhan, who is second with 848 rating points,...