Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood has moved up to the second spot in the ICC T20I bowling rankings after his stellar showing in the first three T20Is against Sri Lanka.

Hazlewood returned with the figures of 4/12, 3/22 and 1/31 in the first, second and third T20I respectively to ensure Australia unassailable lead in the five-T20I series.

Thanks to his herculean effort, Hazlewood is just one point behind South Africa's Tabraiz Shamsi, who occupies the top position in the T20I bowling rankings.

In the series against Australia, Wanindu Hasaranga claimed five wickets in the first two matches, but having missed the final match, it wasn't enough for him to continue onto the top spot, as he dropped to the third place in the T20I bowling rankings.

His teammate Maheesh Theekshana advanced 16 places to 29th. In the batting chart, Sri Lanka's Pathum Nissanka topped the run-scorers in the T20I series with Australia with 125 runs across the three games to move up 42 places and become joint 21st.

Dipendra Singh Airee from Nepal was the leading run-scorer in the Quadrangular T20I tournament held in Oman with 142 runs which helped him up 63 places to 53rd with the bat. Chirag Suri of the UAE also moved up the table thanks to his unbeaten 84 against Nepal, which was the highest individual score in the competition.

In the bowlers’ list, Oman's Bilal Khan proved to be very economical, conceding just 62 runs in his 12 overs, to move to his career-best position of 18th in T20I in the series.

The updated white-ball rankings also took into account the performances of the last two ODIs between India and West Indies in Ahmedabad.

The Indian pair of Shreyas Iyer and Suryakumar Yadav have made notable gains. Suryakumar scored 64 in the second ODI against the West Indies while Iyer made 80 in the third ODI to help the home side complete a 3-0 series win. Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant slammed a half-century in the third match to move to a career-best of 469 points at 71st place.

Indian pacer Prasidh Krishna was the leading wicket-taker across both sides with nine scalps at just 7.55 to gain 50 places from 94th to 44th in the ODI bowlers list. On the other hand, Alzarri Joseph took two wickets in each of the three matches to earn himself a place in the top 20 bowler's list.

(With ANI inputs)