Test cricket is called the purest format of cricket. Teams thrive to prove their mettle in the red-ball format of the game. As the Test season is on, here we tell you the top five-ranked teams in the world in the red-ball format.
Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, and Mohammed Siraj are the only three players from India who are a part of the top 10 in the latest ICC ODI bowling rankings. Keshav Maharaj of South Africa is the top-ranked bowler in ODIs with 716 ratings.
English star batter Joe Root was the top run-getter in the recent three-match Test series against West Indies with 291 runs in four innings with one century and two fifties. Root also became the second English cricketer to reach 12,000 runs in Test cricket.
Shubman Gill was the captain of Team India during their recent five-match T20I tour to Zimbabwe. Gill finished the series as the leading run-getter with 170 runs in five matches.
In the latest ICC T20I rankings for bowlers, there is no Indian in top 10 while England spinner Adil Rashid continues to be on top. Not many T20Is are being played since the World Cup but India and Zimbabwe were in action from July 6 to 14 playing five matches in the format.
Harmanpreet Kaur and Shafali Verma are among the Indians to gain ground in the ICC T20I rankings ahead of the Women's Asia Cup 2024. Harmanpreet and Shafali have jumped places in the batters' chart. There are some more Indians gaining places in the rankings.
None of the T20 World Cup winning Indian bowlers are currently involved in the ongoing five-match T20I series against Zimbabwe. Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel all have been rested for this series.
India's star all-rounder Hardik Pandya scored 144 runs and took 11 wickets in the recent ICC T20 World Cup 2024 to become the no.1 ICC T20 all-rounder but slipped in the latest updated standings after being rested for the ongoing Zimbabwe tour.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has slipped three places to No. 11 in the ICC T20I batting rankings. The southpaw did not play a single game for Team India during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 in the USA and West Indies.
India's star batter Virat Kohli scored the match-winning 74 runs against South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 to finish his T20I career with a coveted trophy and a big jump in the updated ICC T20 batting and all-rounders' rankings.
Hardik Pandya topped the updated ICC T20I all-rounders ratings after his stellar performances in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. Indian batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma also witnessed a rise in the T20 batting rankings after announcing their retirement from T20Is last week.
It was Hardik Pandya who turned the game on its head in the final of T20 World Cup 2024 on Saturday (June 29) against South Africa. He dismissed Heinrich Klaasen on the first ball of the 17th over and that was enough for India to make a comeback and lift the trophy.
Team India vice-captain Hardik Pandya has risen to No 3 amid a fabulous T20 World Cup 2024 campaign in the Caribbean and the USA. Hardik averages 53 with the bat and has taken eight wickets with the ball and will be aiming to continue the same in the knockouts.
ICC Men's T20 Bowling Rankings: Indian pacers have been top of their game in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2024 but spinners failed to impress on the tricky playing conditions in the United States. Only one Indian bowler from the current team ranks in the updated list of the top ten bowlers.
With the T20 World Cup in progress, there have been major changes in the player rankings. India's Suryakumar Yadav continues to be on top and is 66 points clear of the second placed Phil Salt. Meanwhile, Head has also climbed in the rankings after a good showing in the World Cup.
Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis has been rewarded with the top spot in the ICC rankings for all-rounders in T20Is amid a superb showing with both bat and ball in the ongoing T20 World Cup. Stoinis is the only batter with more than 150 runs and strike rate in excess of 190 in the tournament.
The star Australian batter Travis Head has scored 80 runs in three innings at an impressive strike rate of 177.77 in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 and entered the top ten of the ICC Men's T20I Batting rankings for the first time in his career.
Jasprit Bumrah was the star of the show for Team India against their arch-rivals Pakistan in New York. The right-arm speedster picked the big wickets of Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Iftikhar Ahmed to help India win the game.
The latest ICC rankings has witnessed a lot of changes with the T20 World Cup in progress. Pakistan's poor performances has seen them losing quite a few points after losing to 18th ranked USA and the top-ranked India in the group stages.
Sri Lanka's T20I skipper Wanindu Hasaranga joined Bangladesh's veteran Shakib Al Hasan at the top of the ICC T20I Al-rounder's rankings after a string of impressive performances with both bat and ball in 2024.
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