According to the ICC T20I rankings, Abhishek Sharma will be the top batter going into the 2026 T20 World Cup.

According to the ICC T20I rankings, Abhishek Sharma will begin the 2026 T20 World Cup as the top batter. After scoring a duck in the fourth Twenty20 International, he dropped a few rating points, but he is still comfortably at the top of the rankings among batters in the game's shortest format. With 917 rating points currently, Abhishek is 83 points ahead of England's Phil Salt, who is in second place.

After missing the five-match T20I series against New Zealand because of testicular torsion last month, Tilak Varma dropped to fourth place in the most recent T20I rankings. The left-hander, however, is fit for the T20 World Cup and is anticipated to join the team shortly after demonstrating his fitness in India A's warm-up match against the USA.

Suryakumar Yadav, the captain of India, found his form right before the World Cup, which has also helped him in the rankings. With 728 rating points, he has risen to sixth place in the most recent update, while Pakistani Sahibzada Farhan has fallen two spots to seventh.

In the meantime, Ishan Kishan has risen an incredible 32 spots in the ICC T20I batting rankings. After hitting a spectacular century off about forty deliveries in the fifth and final Twenty20 International against New Zealand, which helped India score an incredible 271 runs in their twenty overs, he is currently in 32nd place. If the southpaw is included in India's playing XI during the World Cup group stages, his current form seems certain to propel him into the top 10 in the coming weeks.