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The T20 World Cup is done, India are champions and the world has had a few days now to process what happened in that final.

The rankings update that dropped on March 18 is the first proper reflection of how that tournament has moved things around, and there is plenty in there worth going through.

Some of it was predictable while ome of it was not. Two names in particular stand out, one for reasons that are almost historically significant in form of Jasprit Bumrah and another for a situation that is genuinely strange when you look at it across formats in form of Abrar Ahmed.

Jasprit Bumrah's World Cup performance has pushed in T20I rankings

Jasprit Bumrah's Player of the Match performance in the T20 World Cup final against New Zealand, 4 for 15 in the title decider, capped a tournament in which he took 14 wickets at an economy rate of 6.21.

His T20I ranking has climbed to fifth at 702, behind Rashid Khan at 753, Varun Chakravarthy at 740, Abrar Ahmed at 736 and Adil Rashid at 721.

Jasprit Bumrah remains world number one in Tests at 879, comfortably clear of the field. Sitting in the top ten across all three formats simultaneously is something almost no bowler in the history of the game has managed and Bumrah is doing it right now at the absolute peak of his powers.

Abrar Ahmed meanwhile presents the sharpest possible contrast to his ODI situation. In T20Is, Abrar Ahmed is third in the world, Pakistan's highest-ranked bowler, sitting behind only Rashid Khan and Varun Chakravarthy.

Abrar Ahmed is hanging on in ODIs and the margin is razor thin

The ODI bowling rankings have Rashid Khan leading comfortably at 705, Jofra Archer second at 649, Keshav Maharaj third at 645, and Namibia's Bernard Scholtz holding an impressive fourth at 630. Adil Rashid sits fifth at 629 and Josh Hazlewood sixth at 626.

Then comes the congestion, a three-way tie at 624 between Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Kuldeep Yadav and Maheesh Theekshana occupies seventh through ninth, Mitchell Santner is tenth at 617, Matt Henry eleventh at 600, and Adam Zampa twelfth at 599.

Abrar Ahmed sits thirteenth at 598, outside the top ten entirely and a significant distance from his career best of 628 set against Sri Lanka at Rawalpindi in 2025. The fall is real for Abrar Ahmed and the data confirms it clearly.

What makes it a stranger story is that in T20Is Abrar Ahmed is third in the world and Pakistan's highest-ranked bowler, thriving on the exact same skills that have not been enough to keep him in the ODI top ten. Same bowler, completely different fortunes depending on which format you look at.

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Australia's stranglehold on the Test rankings

The broader story in the longest format is how completely Australia have come to dominate the list. Five of the top ten Test bowlers in the world are Australian Starc third at 838, Cummins fifth at 832, Boland seventh at 820, Hazlewood ninth at 775 and Lyon tenth at 753.

Both Boland and South Africa's Marco Jansen are sitting at career-best ratings right now, which speaks to the form both have found in recent months.

The concentration of Australian pace at the top of the Test rankings also gives the injury situations around Hazlewood and Cummins, both awaiting Cricket Australia clearance ahead of IPL 2026, a significance that extends well beyond just what it means for RCB and SRH's opening weeks.