According to the ICC, the 31-year-old jumped six places and lies just 19 points behind teammate Saeed Ajmal. A strong performance in the ODI series against Bangladesh, which saw Hafeez take six wickets at an average of just 8.16, helped him improve his ranking.
Ajmal stays top of the list
Meanwhile, Ajmal did enough in the series to stay top with series figures of four for 52.
Shahid Afridi also maintained his position in the top 10 as he is placed ninth, while there were gains for fast-bowler Umar Gul, who rose three places to 26th.
Hafeez rises in all-rounders’ list as well
In addition to Hafeez’s superb bowling, useful contributions with the bat have earned him a place on the all-rounders’ rankings.
He now sits second, having overtaken Australia’s Shane Watson and is just 13 ratings points behind leader Shakibal Hasan, with Afridi placed fourth.
Umar Akmal takes giant strides
In the rankings for ODI batsmen, Umar Akmal, who has enjoyed a good run in his last two series against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, has climbed to tenth. In the ODI team rankings, Pakistan maintain their fifth place.
ODI bowlers
Player Country
1 S Ajmal Pakistan
2 M Hafeez Pakistan
3 D Vettori New Zealand
4 G Swann England
5 M Johnson Australia
ODI all-rounders
Player Country
1 Shakib Bangladesh
2 M Hafeez Pakistan
3 S Watson Australia
4 S Afridi Pakistan
5 J Kallis South Africa
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2011.
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Umar akmal is also placed 10th in odi rankings,hope he will do better,because he is most talented one in pak side after proffesor sahab,but team does not depend on 2 or 3,others should also perform better.
@investorpedia, shahid afridi was on i think no 7 or no 8 right before the bangla tour (im forgetting exactly which), with hafeez a spot behind him. his poor economy and strike rates against BD pushed him down to no 9. hafeez on the other hand did extremely well in BD. make sense now?
Good going guys....!!!
Green Shirts ZindaBad.Pakistan Zindabad I hope they will continue the same Spirit.
Very well done Hafeez.
Pakistan Team regained their lost exposure.
May your streaks of success continue All the best for future games
Pakistan Zindabad
Our boys are doing quite well and deserve our heartiest congratulaltion. Thanks God, the team is now cleansed of fixers that's why we are getting heart-warming results from them.
I am loveing the rankings now, well done to hafeez. He is the pride of Pakistan, hope he keeps performing like this and soon he will be top in every single listing. Just needs to keep up his performance with his bat. Hope PCB will get a batting coach who will keep working on his weakens in batting.
ALL THE BEST TO THE PAKSTANI TEAM. I LOVE MY COUNTRY
I never thought that one day an opening batsman will be ranked No. 2 in bowling. Well done, Hafeez. Hope more to come from you in future.
These Ranking are Not correct...Shahid bhai has better avg, more wickets, perfomed better than Ajmal and Hafeez, but he is Ranked way lower than them
Yea Cheetah allrounder hay.
Well done... Do well against Eng.
Great news...now it's time to get the team to the top of ODI and Test rankings..soon enough inshAllah soon enough!
well deserved
way to go for Professor Hafeez.
Good going....
i love u hafeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bhayia and misbah bhaiya
Great to see pakistani spinners doing the magic against even the best sides of the world. best of luck for Bangladesh test series and the following series against ENGLAND.
tremendous performer MASHALLAH.