With yesterday’s excellent performance Malinga jumps high on the ranking

Sri Lanka pacer Lasith Malinga, who picked up four wickets in four balls against New Zealand, has jumped 20 places to No.21 on the latest ICC T20I Rankings for bowlers released on Saturday.

Malinga became the first bowler to capture four wickets in four successive balls in both ODIs and T20Is, finished with figures of 4-1-6-5, as Sri Lanka notched up a consolation 37-run win in the third and final T20I in Pallekele. It was his fifth hat-trick overall in international cricket.

With the first wicket of his spell, Malinga also became the first bowler in men’s cricket to take 100 T20I wickets. In the bowling charts led by Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan, left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner has jumped six places to move to No.5. Kuldeep Yadav is the lone Indian in top 10, sitting on the eighth spot.