ICC Test Rankings
Senior Indian batsman Virat Kohli gained two places to be at eighth position while his captain Rohit Sharma lost one place to be at sixth in the latest ICC Test rankings released on Wednesday.
Apart from Rohit and Kohli, young Yashasvi Jaiswal is also included in the top 10 in the list of batsmen. He is at seventh place with a gain of one place. Veteran England batsman Joe Root remains at the top of the Test batting rankings after a good performance against Sri Lanka in Manchester. England’s Harry Brook, who scored 56 and 32 at Old Trafford, has moved up three places to fourth place. He surpassed Pakistan’s Babar Azam, Australia’s Steve Smith and Rohit.
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Babar has lost six places and has slipped from joint third to ninth. He failed in the first Test against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi. Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan has moved up seven places to joint 10th place with a century in the first Test, which is the best ranking of his career.
Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim is also at a career-best 17th ranking with a gain of seven places. India’s veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin tops the bowlers’ rankings. Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja remained at third and seventh positions respectively.
England fast bowler Chris Woakes (up four places to 16th) and Sri Lankan fast bowler Asitha Fernando (up 10 places to 17th) have gained in the rankings while Pakistan fast bowler Naseem Shah (up four places to 33rd) and England’s Gus Atkinson (up four places to 42nd) have achieved career best rankings. In the list of all-rounders, Jadeja and Ashwin are at the top two positions while Axar Patel is at sixth position.