New Delhi: In the latest ranking for the batsmen of ICC Test Cricket, India’s explosive batsman Rohit Sharma and Team India captain Virat Kohli in the batting department, and India’s experienced off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the bowling maintained their own footing.
In the ICC rankings, Rohit Sharma is 5th, Virat Kohli 6th, and Ashwin is at second place while fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has slipped a place to 10th position. Except for Ravichandran Ashwin, all the three players of Team India were not part of the playing XI in the first match of the latest Test series played in Kanpur.
Shreyas Iyer, who was Man of the Match playing the first Test match of the latest series, moved up to 75th place in the ICC Test Rankings thanks to his innings of 105 and 65 runs. Significantly, this was the debut match of his international Test career. Indian team’s explosive opener Shubman Gill jumped 6 places to 66th and Wriddhiman Saha jumped 9 places to be ranked 99th.
Team India’s strong all-rounder, spin bowler Ravindra Jadeja has jumped 2 places in the list of bowlers in the ICC World Rankings to be at 19th position. He is second on the list of all-rounder players. Ravichandran Ashwin is ranked third in the ICC World Rankings for all-rounder cricketers and 79th among batsmen.
New Zealand cricket team’s great player Tom Latham has jumped from 14th to 9th place in the ICC World Test Rankings. It is worth noting that in the first Test match of the latest Test series between India and New Zealand, he played excellent innings of 95 and 52 runs at Kanpur ground. Among bowlers, Kyle Jamieson is ranked ninth in the World ICC Test Rankings. Tim Southee is in third place. And India’s experienced bowler Ravichandran is only one point behind Ashwin.
Pakistan’s fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi has reached the top-5 for the first time after the first Test match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Test Series, 2021) that ended in Galle.
Significantly, Pakistan won the first test match by 8 wickets. Shaheen Shah Afridi took 7 wickets in this match and he jumped 3 places to occupy the 5th position. Fast bowler Hasan Ali also jumped 5 places and became 11th in the WorldTest ICC World Rankings.
In the matter of batting, Abid Ali missed out on hitting a century in both the innings of the match, but playing 133 and 91 runs, he has settled on the 20th ranking. They have got an advantage of 20 places.
For the Bangladesh cricket team, Mushfiqur Rahim has jumped four places to 19th and Liton Das has jumped 26 places to reach the 31st position in the ICC World Rankings.
