Cricket: A nine-wicket haul in his 100th Test match has helped Ravichandran Ashwin re-claim top spot from teammate Jasprit Bumrah on the latest ICC Test Bowling Rankings.
Men’s Test Bowler Rankings
In the Dharamsala Test, three Indian batters, including skipper Rohit Sharma (103), top-order performer Shubman Gill (110), and young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (57), achieved decent scores, bringing joy to the team. After nine Test matches, only Don Bradman (752) and Mike Hussey (741) had more rating points than the Indian youngster, who now has 740 rating points.
Rohit Sharma has climbed five places to sixth in the rankings, narrowing the gap to just 108 rating points behind the No.1 ranked Test batter Kane Williamson. Meanwhile, Jaiswal has moved up two places to eighth, and Gill has jumped 11 spots to share the 20th position, achieving new career-best ratings after their outstanding performances in the series against Ben Stokes’ side.
Men's Test Batting Rankings
Australia veteran Steve Smith drops to fifth following a pair of failures in the second Test against New Zealand, with Pakistan right-hander Babar Azam (up two places) and Kiwi batter Daryl Mitchell (up one spot) sharing third behind Williamson and England’s Joe Root in second.
Australia duo Alex Carey (up 12 places to 38th) and Mitch Marsh (up eight spots to 55th) also make some ground on the list for Test batters, while Kiwi young gun Rachin Ravindra also earns a career-best rating following a 10-spot jump to 66th.
India spinner Ravindra Jadeja remains well out in front of second-placed Ashwin on the updated list for Test all-rounders, with Australia skipper Pat Cummins (up two places to eighth) and Henry (up six spots to 11th) among the big movers.
Men's Test All-Rounder Rankings
There was little movement on the white-ball rankings over the last week, although Ireland youngster Harry Tector split the dominance by Pakistan and India players on the latest ODI rankings for batters following his good series against Afghanistan.
Tector hit a brilliant 138 during the opening game of that ODI series in Sharjah and moved up two places to fourth on the latest rankings for batters after reaching a new career-high rating.
