Top 10 T20 Batsmen (Men) 2017

Top 10 T20 Batsman Ranking


1. Virat Kohli :

Virat Kohli (Born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer who currently captains the India national team. A right-handed batsman, often regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, Kohli was ranked eighth in ESPN's list of world's most famous athletes in 2016. He plays for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL), and has been the team's captain since 2013.





2. Aaron Finch :


Aaron James Finch (born 17 November 1986, in Colac, Victoria) is an Australian cricketer who plays for Victoria, Surrey, Gujarat Lions and the Melbourne Renegades as captain and the Australia national cricket team where he serves as T20 captain. Finch is a top order batsman, and occasional left arm orthodox spinner.




3. Evin Lewis : 


Evin Lewis (born 27 December 1991) is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for the West Indies in limited over internationals. He plays as a left-handed opening batsman. Generally a fast scoring left handed batsman, Lewis is the third batsman to score two Twenty 20 International centuries.

 

4. Kane Williamson : 

Kane Stuart Williamson (born 8 August 1990) is a professional cricketer and currently the captain of New Zealand. Considered as one of the most innovative batsman in the modern era, he is a right-handed batsman and occasional off-spinner. 
As of 20 December 2016, he is the fourth ranked batsman in Test cricket. Domestically he has represented Northern Districts in New Zealand domestic cricket, the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL, and Gloucestershire and Yorkshire in English county cricket.




5. Glenn Maxwell : 

Glenn James Maxwell (born 14 October 1988) is an Australian cricketer who plays Tests, One Day International and Twenty 20 International matches for Australia. In 2011, he set the record for the fastest ever half-century in Australian domestic one day cricket, scoring 50 runs off 19 balls. In February 2013, the Indian Premier League team the Mumbai Indians bought him for $1 million US, and in March he made his Test debut against India in the second Test at Hyderabad.



6.  Alex Hales :

Alexander Daniel "Alex" Hales (born 3 January 1989) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman who currently plays for Nottinghamshire and the England cricket team. He made his One Day International debut against India in August 2014 and his Test debut against South Africa in December 2015. Hales is the first and up to date only English batsman to score a T20I century. He is also the first batsman to be dismissed for 99 in an ODI and a T20I. 



7. Joe Root : 


Joseph Edward Root (born 30 December 1990) is an English cricketer, who is the current captain of the English Test team. He also represents Yorkshire domestically. He was originally a right-handed opening batsman and occasional off-spinner, with a similar playing style to former England captain Michael Vaughan. However, he has played the majority of his cricket for England in the middle order. He fields predominantly at second slip or gully.


8. Hashim Amla : 

Hashim Muhammad Amla (born 31 March 1983) is a South African cricketer who plays for South Africa in all three formats of the game. He is also a former captain of the Proteas and is a right-handed batsman and occasional off-break bowler. Regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of the modern-era, he was South Africa's Test captain from June 2014 to January 2016. As of 29th May 2017. He is ranked by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as the world's number nine batsman in Tests and the world's number ten in ODIs. In 2013, Amla became the first batsman since Ricky Ponting to head both the Test and ODI rankings at the same time in the latest ICC charts. 


9. Babar Azam : 

Mohammad Babar Azam (born 15 October 1994) is an international Pakistani cricketer who plays in all three formats for Pakistan. Babar is also the vice captain of the Pakistan ODI team. Azam captained the Pakistan Under-19 cricket team at the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. 
He plays for Karachi Kings in Pakistan Super League. Azam jointly holds the record for the fastest batsman to reach 1000 ODI runs. He held the record of scoring most runs after first 18 and 25 ODI Innings respectively by any batsman in the world.



10. Mohammad Shahzad : 

Mohammad Shahzad Mohammadi (born 31 January 1988) is an Afghan cricketer who is a right-handed batsman who plays primarily as a wicketkeeper. Shahzad represents Afghanistan in international cricket. Known as a hard big hitter for the ball, Shahzad has the most number of Twenty20 International Player of the match awards by an associate member with 10 T20I Player of the match awards, and holds the record for the most scores of 50 or more in T20I by an associate player as well. He is the highest run scorer for all associate nations.




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