India all-rounder Akshar Patel jumped 20 locations to achieve a career-best 18th rank whereas spinner Kuldeep Yadav jumped 19 locations to achieve forty ninth place within the newest ICC Test rankings launched on Wednesday.
Kuldeep, who was adjudged participant of the match for his eight wickets for 113 runs within the first Test of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) towards Bangladesh, has 455 ranking factors. Axar, who claimed 5 scalps within the match, has 650 factors as he strikes into the highest 20. Meanwhile, injured Jasprit Bumrah (fourth) and Ravichandran Ashwin (fifth) retained their locations within the high 5.
Among batsmen, veteran Cheteshwar Pujara and teen Shubman Gill jumped 10 locations every to achieve sixteenth and 54th positions. Pujara’s knocks of 90 and 102 within the first Test towards Bangladesh final week helped him break into the highest 20 with 664 ranking factors.
The different Indian centurion of the match, Gill is at 54th place with 517 ranking factors. Shreyas Iyer’s 86 within the first innings has seen him achieve 11 locations to achieve twenty sixth place as wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant stays the top-ranked Indian batsman at quantity six. Captain Rohit Sharma, who missed the primary Test as a consequence of a thumb harm, is at quantity 9 whereas the talismanic Virat Kohli has gained one place to achieve twelfth place.
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Pakistan captain Babar Azam has achieved a career-best second place after scoring two half-centuries within the last Test collection towards England in Karachi. Babar’s innings of 78 and 54 helped him overtake Steve Smith, who scored 36 and 6 within the low-scoring recreation between Australia and South Africa in Brisbane.
Babar, who’s first in ODIs and fourth in T20Is, trails Marnus Labuschagne by 61 factors within the Test rankings. Australia batsman Travis Head, whose first innings highest rating of 92 within the Brisbane Test, gained three slots to maneuver as much as a career-best fourth place as he crossed the 800 ranking factors mark for the primary time in his profession. went.
His earlier greatest was fifth in January this 12 months. England captain Ben Stokes (up twenty third place), South Africa’s Temba Bavuma (up eight locations to twenty fourth) and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan (up 4 locations to thirty seventh) have moved up the record for batsmen . England’s Harry Brook broke into the highest 50 for the primary time after scoring centuries in all three Tests in Pakistan.
In the bowlers’ rankings, South African pacer Kagiso Rabada has jumped 4 locations to 3rd after taking 4 wickets in every innings on the Gabba. Rabada, previously the top-order bowler, was third within the desk earlier than sliding down the desk in August this 12 months. Australia’s six-wicket win noticed them consolidate their place on the high of the WTC desk with India in second place.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
