International Cricket Council (ICC) updated the latest Test rankings without even playing, India skipper Rohit Sharma continues to be the highest-ranked batter for the team in the format. Meanwhile, Joe Root continues to be on top but has lost rating points due to poor show in 3rd Test vs Sri Lanka.
Pakistan suffered a huge ten-wicket defeat in the first Test match against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi after a poor show by bowlers in the first innings. Shaheen Afridi managed to take just two wickets across two innings to take a big blow in his standings in the latest ICC Test rankings.
Pakistan's recent loss to Bangladesh in the first Test of the two-match series has affected the rankings among players of both teams. Babar Azam didn't have a great time with scores of 0 and 22. Accordingly, he has lost several rating points to go below Kohli in the rankings.
With two Test matches - Pakistan vs Bangladesh and England vs Sri Lanka - starting today (August 21), ICC has released the latest rankings in the format. Joe Root is sitting on top in the batting rankings but Babar Azam is likely to challenge him in the coming days.
England and Sri Lanka are all set to face each other in a three-match Test series, while Pakistan and Bangladesh will be locking horns in a two-match red-ball series. Ahead of the two big contests, here are the top 5 ranked Test batters in the world.
South Africa's Keshav Maharaj is consolidating his top position on the ICC Men's ODI bowling rankings. Maharaj has accumulated 716 rating points and is just 26 points away from reaching his career-best ODI ratings.
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.
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