ICC Test rankings have been updated for the first time since India's 3-0 series loss to New Zealand at home. After multiple collapses, on expected lines, the Indian batters have slipped in the rankings with Kohli and Rohit suffering the most.
ICC has released the latest Test rankings in the weekly update taking into account the performances in IND vs NZ and PAK vs ENG matches. Three Indian batters continue to be in top 10 while Rohit Sharma has suffered after failing in both innings of Bengaluru Test.
England's star cricketer Joe Root scored his 35th Test hundred during the first Test against Pakistan to witness a big boost in his ratings in the ICC Men's Test rankings on Wednesday. Indian captain Rohit Sharma also jumped two places in the updated rankings by the ICC.
“I’d like everyone to applaud a guy who brought us back into games again and again in this tournament. What he did in those last five overs, bowling two out of the last five overs, was phenomenal. A huge round of applause for Jasprit Bumrah, please…” said Virat Kohli after the T20 World Cup triumph.
On his return to red-ball cricket, the star batter Virat Kohli scored 99 runs in four innings against Bangladesh in the recent Test series at home. Kohli gained six places in the updated ICC Men's batting rankings to enter the top ten.
Two of India's biggest superstars Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli endured twin failures in the first Test against Bangladesh at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a fifty while Ravi Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja starred with the bat.
Pakistan cricket and the players keep on hogging the limelight on and off the field for different reasons. This time around it is Shaheen Afridi who missed the second Test vs Bangladesh that Pakistan lost by six wickets inside four days.
Pakistan were whitewashed by Bangladesh on Tuesday (September 3) in the two-match Test series. They lost both Test matches to Najmul Hossain Shanto and his men in Rawalpindi going down in the series for the first time against them in the format.
England batters have been been benefited from their run-scoring spree in the second Test against the West Indies. England scored more than 400 runs in each of their innings with Joe Root, Ollie Pope and Harry Brook smashing centuries.
India have slipped to the second spot in the Men's Test team rankings after ICC's annual ranking update. The reigning World Test champions have reclaimed the top spot with 124 rating points in total.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma saw his name move out of the top 10 for the batters in ICC's latest Test rankings owing to a 7-place rise of Australian batter Travis Head. Head smashed a return-to-form century against West Indies in Adelaide and helped Australia recover from a collapse to win the game.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) updated the rankings on Tuesday, January 9. With two Test series - India vs South Africa and Australia vs Pakistan - getting concluded simultaneously, Indians and Australian players were the biggest gainers following wins in Cape Town and Sydney respectively.
Rohit Sharma scored a century in the first Test and then smashed two fifties in the second Test against West Indies last month.
Ravindra Jadeja retained the top position among all-rounders, while Ravichandran Ashwin displaced West Indies' Jason Holder to be second.
Jadeja had risen to No. 1 after his 175 not out and nine wickets in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Mohali earlier this month.
Kohli scored 45 in the opening Test in Mohali, while in the second Test he had scores of 23 and 13.
His unbeaten 175 lifted him up to 17 places from 54th to 37th with the bat and he added nine wickets to move up to 17th with the ball.
After suffering a 1-2 series loss in South Africa, India dropped to the third spot while inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) winners New Zealand held onto their second position after a 1-1 drawn series at home against Bangladesh.
Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant's unbeaten century in the second innings of the series-deciding third Test against South Africa lifted him 10 places to 14th, while fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah's six wickets in Cape Town took him back to the top 10 in the bowling chart.
While Rohit has 781 rating points, Kohli is just inside the top-10 with 740 points. The batting list is being headed by Marnus Labuschangne of Australia with 924 points
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