DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Two-time Twen­ty20 World Cup win­ner, John­son Charles and speed­ster Alzarri Joseph were among the big movers in the ICC Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al Rank­ings re­leased on Wednes­day.

The duo played im­por­tant roles in a 2-1 se­ries win for West In­dies against hosts South Africa over the past week.

Charles, the Play­er-of-the-Se­ries, leapt an in­cred­i­ble 92 places to 17th in the bat­ting rank­ings due main­ly to his pu­gna­cious 118 off 46 balls in the sec­ond T20I of the se­ries at Cen­tu­ri­on Park in Pre­to­ria be­fore the South Africans suc­cess­ful­ly chased a record tar­get of 259 to win the match.

He is one of three West In­dies bats­men in the top 20 of the rank­ings – Bran­don King is cur­rent­ly 19th af­ter achiev­ing a ca­reer-best rank­ing in the first match of the se­ries, and Nicholas Pooran, whose cru­cial 41 earned a win in the third T20I, is now ranked 20th.

Joseph im­proved 18 places to 33rd in the bowl­ing rank­ings af­ter he snared a ca­reer-best five for 40 in the third T20I at the Wan­der­ers in the South Africa cap­i­tal of Jo­han­nes­burg on Tues­day to for­malise se­ries win for the Caribbean side.

No West In­dies bowler has cracked the top 20 in the for­mat, but left-arm spin­ner Akeal Ho­sein is the high­est ranked at 21st af­ter falling five places dur­ing the se­ries.

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