Dubai: All-rounder Hardik Pandya, mysterious spinner Varun Chakraborty and aggressive opener Abhishek Sharma have retained the top position in their respective category in the ICC T20 ranking released on Wednesday.

Last week, the world’s number one bowler, Chakraborty, further strengthened his position at the top with the benefit of 14 rating points. He has 747 points. Abrar Ahmed of Pakistan, who jumped 11 places last week, has benefited 12 places in the latest rankings.

Bangladesh’s veteran fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman has returned to the top 10 with six places. The left -arm fast bowler has taken six wickets at an average of eight in his last two matches of the Asia Cup.

At the top of the all -rounder list, Pandya is at six places in the bowling rankings to 60th place. Opener Abhishek has retained his top position in the batting rankings. In addition to scoring a fiery innings of 38 runs in India’s final group match against Oman, he played a 74 -run match chasing a score of 171 runs on Sunday.

Tilak Verma, who helped India reach the target by playing an unbeaten 30 -run innings against Pakistan, has also benefited three places. Captain Suryakumar Yadav has also got closer to making a place in the top five with the benefit of one place.

Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan, who scored 58 runs in 45 balls against India, is ranked 24th with the benefit of 31 places. Hussain Talat, who won Pakistan by playing a patient innings against Sri Lanka, is jointly at 234th in the men’s T20 batting rankings with a long jump of 1474 points.