Young Ireland cricketer Harry Tector has made it to the top-10 within the newest ICC males’s ODI batting rankings following his career-best 140 within the second match of the 50-over collection towards Bangladesh in Chelmsford. The 23-year-old ended the collection because the main run-getter with 206 runs from three video games and is positioned seventh, having displaced India’s Virat Kohli and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock, who’ve dropped one place every to eighth and ninth respectively.

Young India top-order batter Shubman Gill continues to carry the No. 5 place within the rankings, which is led by Pakistan’s Babar Azam.

Tector seventh place on the rankings, following a leap of 72 ranking factors, is the very best by an Ireland batter.

The right-handed batter’s new ranking of 722 factors can also be the very best an Ireland male batter has ever achieved in ODI cricket.

Besides, Kohli and de Kock, Tector can also be forward of India all-format captain Rohit Sharma (tenth), Australia’s Steve Smith (eleventh) and Jos Buttler (fifteenth).

Former England skipper Eoin Morgan reached 712 factors in 2019 however by that point he was enjoying for England. Among Irish gamers, the very best was Paul Stirling, who reached 697 factors in June 2021.

Tector will get a possibility to additional enhance his rating when Ireland participate within the World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe in June-July.

“He’s (Tector) just got all the attributes to go on and be one of the greats of Irish cricket and I hope that we can help him on his way, and he continues to put in scores for us,” Ireland skipper Andy Balbirnie was quoted as saying by ICC.

“The more runs he gets for us, the better place we’re going to be.”