Saim Ayub Is No. 2 in ICC T20I All-Rounder Rankings on 290, Mohammad Nawaz Up to 13th

Saim Ayub is second in the ICC men's T20I all-rounder rankings with 290 points, 31 behind Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza on 321. Mohammad Nawaz is 13th on 184, up two places. Those are the only two Pakistanis in the top 20.

We opened the ICC's T20I all-rounder table on 14 October 2026. Its rank date is 13 October, the day the T20I series against Sri Lanka ended. Every figure below comes from that table.

Saim Ayub is second on 290, 31 points behind Sikandar Raza

Raza leads on 321. Saim is second on 290, and West Indies' Roston Chase is third on 267. So Saim is 31 points off the top and 23 points clear of third place. He has held second place since our earlier report.

Saim was on 293 in the table dated 6 October, as our report on Pakistan players in the ICC rankings showed. He is on 290 now, a fall of 3 points. His best rating on the ICC page is 303, set against India at Colombo in 2026, so he sits 13 points below his own peak.

The drop from second to sixth is steep. Afghanistan's Azmatullah Omarzai is sixth on 241, which is 49 points below Saim. Namibia's Gerhard Erasmus is seventh on 213 and India's Hardik Pandya is eighth on 204. So Saim is not only second, he is far ahead of most of the field. Only Raza is clearly in front of him.

That makes the table a useful measure of how rare the skill is. Pakistan have one all-rounder who rates among the very best in T20Is, and the next Pakistani is 11 places further down.

Mohammad Nawaz is 13th on 184, up two places

Nawaz is 13th on 184. His best rating is 230, set against Australia at Lahore in 2026. So he is 46 points below that peak. The jump of two places is small, but it keeps a second Pakistani inside the top 20.

Sri Lanka's Dasun Shanaka is just behind Nawaz in 14th on 182, up eight places. The ICC lists 182 as his best rating, and it was set against Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 2026. So he reached that rating in Rawalpindi.

For Pakistan the all-rounder table matters more than most. The side leans on players who both bat and bowl, and Saim and Nawaz are two of them. When either has a good match with bat and ball, the rating rises quickly because the all-rounder table looks at batting and bowling together.

How the ICC all-rounder number works

The all-rounder rating is not a score for runs and wickets together. The ICC's FAQ describes an index: take the player's batting points, multiply them by his bowling points and divide by 1000. The FAQ gives examples. A player on 600 batting and 200 bowling gets 120. A player on 400 and 400 gets 160.

That FAQ describes the index for Test and One Day cricket. It does not say on that page that the T20I table uses the same sum, so we do not claim it. The pattern is still worth knowing, because it shows why the number is low. An all-rounder needs strong batting and strong bowling at the same time. A score of 321 is very high.

One thing follows from the sum. A player who cannot bowl scores zero. The ICC makes that point itself: a batter on 800 with no bowling points has an index of zero.

Check any all-rounder in five steps

1. Open icc-cricket.com and choose Rankings.
2. Pick Men's, then Player Rankings, then T20I.
3. Select All-rounder.
4. Read the rank date above the table.
5. Find the player and compare the rating with the best rating in the last column.

For the other two Pakistan tables, see the T20I bowling position of Abrar Ahmed and Salman Mirza. Saim Ayub's batting is rated separately and does not appear in the top 20 batting rows we read.

Common questions about Saim Ayub's ranking

What is Saim Ayub's ICC T20I all-rounder ranking?

He is second with 290 points in the table dated 13 October 2026. Sikandar Raza of Zimbabwe leads on 321.

Which Pakistanis are in the T20I all-rounder top 20?

Two: Saim Ayub in second place and Mohammad Nawaz in 13th place on 184.

How far is Saim Ayub from No. 1?

He is 31 points behind Sikandar Raza. Raza's best rating is 339, set against Bangladesh at Bulawayo in 2026, so he is close to his own peak too.

How does the ICC rate all-rounders?

For Test and ODI cricket the ICC multiplies batting points by bowling points and divides by 1000. The ICC page we read does not state the T20I formula.

How often does the ICC update this table?

It carries a rank date and changes after ranked matches. The ICC also does an annual update around 1 May each year.

How we verified this

What we checked, where we read it, and what we could not confirm.

Last checked 14 October 2026. Ratings, positions and best ratings come from the ICC's men's T20I all-rounder rankings page at icc-cricket.com, rank date 13 October 2026. The 293 figure for 6 October comes from our earlier report. The index sum comes from the ICC rankings FAQs. The ICC describes its method on its About the rankings page. We did not open the PCB site, which blocked our request.