Former India captain Virat Kohli retained the No. 2 spot in the latest ICC ODI Rankings for Men's Batters, updated after the end of India's ODI series in South Africa. Meanwhile, ODI captain Rohit Sharma, who missed India's tour of South Africa due to a hamstring injury, also held his 3rd spot in the batting charts.
Virat Kohli, who
was sacked as India's captain before the tour of South Africa, hit two fifties but India ended up losing the ODI series 0-3, suffering a clean sweep for the first time in an ODI series in the Rainbow Nation. Kohli hit 116 runs at a strike rate of less than 80 across 3 matches in South Africa. Shikhar Dhawan top-scored for India with 169 runs across 3 matches.