Ranking of Shubman Gill, Akshar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav improved – Photo: Social Media
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ICC has released the latest rankings. India’s star all-rounder Akshar Patel has jumped 20 places to reach a career-best 18th ranking. At the same time, Chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav reached 49th position with a jump of 19 places in the latest ICC Test rankings released on Wednesday. Kuldeep was the player of the match in the first test against Bangladesh. He took eight wickets for 113 runs. His rating point is 455. At the same time, Akshar, who took five wickets in the match, has 650 points and has reached the top 20. Injured Jasprit Bumrah (fourth) and Ravichandran Ashwin (fifth) retained their places in the top five. Among batsmen, veteran Cheteshwar Pujara and youngster Shubman Gill jumped 10 places each to reach 16th and 54th positions. Pujara broke into the top 20 with 664 rating points after scores of 90 and 102 in the first Test against Bangladesh last week. At the same time, Shubman Gill is at 54th position with 517 rating points. Shreyas Iyer’s 86 in the first innings has seen him move up 11 places to 26th position. Indian wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant remains at number six and is the top-ranked Indian batsman in Tests. Captain Rohit Sharma, who is out of Team India due to injury, remains at number nine, while Virat Kohli has jumped one place to reach 12th position. Pakistan captain Babar Azam has achieved a career-best second position after scoring two half-centuries in the final Test series against England in Karachi. Babar’s innings of 78 and 54 helped him overtake Steve Smith in the Test rankings. Smith scored 36 and six in the first Test against South Africa in Brisbane. Babar, who is number one in ODI rankings and fourth in T20Is, is 61 points behind Australia’s number one ranked Marnus Labuschagne in Test rankings. Australian batsman Travis Head’s 92 against South Africa in Brisbane has moved him to a career-best fourth position. He jumped three places. He has crossed the 800 rating points mark for the first time. Head’s previous best was fifth in January this year. England captain Ben Stokes is up 23rd among batsmen, South Africa’s Temba Bavuma has gained eight places to 24th and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan has gained four places to 37th.
Harry Brook, who scored the most runs for England in the Test series against Pakistan, has managed to break into the top 50 for the first time among Test batsmen. At the same time, in the ranking of bowlers, South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada took four wickets in both the innings in the Gaba Test. He has jumped four places to reach the third position. Australia’s six-wicket win has kept them at the top of the WTC points table. Whereas, India is in second place.
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ICC has released the latest rankings. India’s star all-rounder Akshar Patel has jumped 20 places to reach a career-best 18th ranking. At the same time, Chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav reached 49th position with a jump of 19 places in the latest ICC Test rankings released on Wednesday. Kuldeep was the player of the match in the first test against Bangladesh.
