{"id":23564,"date":"2026-10-08T18:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/08\/icc-rashid-khan-azmatullah-omarzai-odi-rankings-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:08:16","slug":"icc-rashid-khan-azmatullah-omarzai-odi-rankings-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/08\/icc-rashid-khan-azmatullah-omarzai-odi-rankings-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC ranks Rashid Khan and Azmatullah Omarzai first in ODI standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) has said in its latest report that Rashid Khan and Azmatullah Omarzai, two players from Afghanistan&#8217;s national cricket team, have once again returned to the top of the official One Day International (ODI) rankings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the table, Rashid Khan, with 714 points, is ranked first among the world&#8217;s leading ODI bowlers, a position the body said has been reaffirmed with the release of the new rankings.<\/p>\n<p>In the ODI all-rounders section, Azmatullah Omarzai has also been placed first with 337 points. The rankings were released as Afghanistan&#8217;s national team prepares to continue its competitive schedule.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the only Test match between Afghanistan and Bangladesh is scheduled to be played on Friday, a fixture considered important for assessing the team&#8217;s strength in the Test format and taking place as part of Afghanistan&#8217;s busy October programme.<\/p>\n<p>The International Cricket Council regularly updates player rankings in three main categories, including bowlers and all-rounders, based on performances in official matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICC says Afghanistan&#8217;s Rashid Khan and Azmatullah Omarzai are back on top of the ODI rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}