Kane Williamson back as No.1 in ICC Test Player Rankings
Cricket | Jun 30, 2021, 02:09 PM ISTWilliamson scored 49 and 52 in the final against India which helped him amass 900 points and subsequently take the top spot in ICC Rankings.
Williamson scored 49 and 52 in the final against India which helped him amass 900 points and subsequently take the top spot in ICC Rankings.
England's Ben Stokes retained his third place with 377 points, while R Ashwin is fourth in the list with 353 points.
Following their 1-0 series win in England against Joe Root's men last week at the Edgbaston, New Zealand leapfrogged India to take the top spot in the ICC Test ranking.
Kohli, who will lead India in the World Test Championship final against New Zealand at the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton from Friday, has 814 points.
India head the table with a rating of 121 having accumulated 2914 points from 24 matches.
Hasan has moved up six places to the 14th position, Shaheen jumped nine places to the 22nd and Nauman moved from 54th to 46th position.
Three players -- Rishabh Pant, New Zealand's Henry Nicholls and Rohit Sharma -- who are all on 747 points, are joint sixth. Wicketkeeper-batsman Pant has moved up three places.
Pant’s 747 rating points are the joint-15th highest by any India batsman, and the highest by a full-time Test wicketkeeper from his country.
India, with the 3-1 series win, now have 122 rating points having amassed 4505 points from 37 matches in the designated period.
The difference in Rohit's home and away average of 54.05 is the most by a batsman ever (min. 20 innings) but since opening the innings for India, the figure reads 24.23 which only shows that he has been growing into the role.
Indian opener Rohit Sharma moved to 8th position in the ICC Test Rankings. Three Indians are now in the top-10 among batsmen.
Ashwin hit an excellent 106 in India's second innings and took eight wickets with his off-spin in the second Test against England in Chennai.
Kohli, who had had scores of 11 and 72 in the opening Test against England, has 852 points and down one spot in the latest chart issued on Wednesday.
Apart from Kohli (862) and Pujara (760), Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane (748) is the other Indian batsman in the top-10, hanging on to the eighth spot.
Paceman Kyle Jamieson continued an extraordinary start to his test career, taking 6-48 as New Zealand beat Pakistan by an innings and 176 runs in the second test.
New Zealand will have to win the series against Pakistan and expect a tie in the Border-Gavaskar series to retain their No.1 ranking.
The win takes New Zealand to the top of the ICC Test Rankings, for the first time since the inception of the concept, with 117 ratings.
Although he remained at the second spot in the ICC rankings, the half-century helped him gain two points to reduce the gap between him and Smith from 25 to 13
In the list of all-rounders, Ravindra Jadeja is the highest-ranked Indian, currently occupying the third spot. Ashwin is placed at the sixth spot.
The Black Caps defeat the visitors by an innings and 12 runs early on the fourth day of the second Test to grab the first spot in rankings for the first time in history.
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