Team India’s bowling spearhead Jasprit Bumrah has attained the joint-highest rating points ever achieved by a Test bowler from his country after another excellent performance in the third Test of their ICC World Test Championship series against Australia in Brisbane. Bumrah, who finished with a match-haul of nine for 94, added 14 points to his tally and went up to 904 rating points, which the recently retired Ravichandran Ashwin had reached in December 2016 after the fourth Test against England in Mumbai in December 2016.
However, Indian captain Rohit Sharma and former skipper Virat Kohli continued their downward slide in the ICC Test ranking. After scoring just 10 in the only innings at the Gabba last week, Rohit has slipped 5 positions to 35th spot in the ICC rankings, while Kohli who scored 3 has lost one position and is in 21st place currently.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal also fell one position to 5th, replaced by Australia ‘Player of the match’ Travis Head – who scored a brilliant 152 at the Gabba. Rishabh Pant has also dropped out of the top 10 in the Test batting rankings, losing two places to end up at 11th.
Bumrah’s 21 wickets in the series so far have helped him increase his lead at the top of the bowling rankings to 48 rating points. Formerly top ranked bowlers Kagiso Rabada (856) and Josh Hazlewood (852) are second and third in the list.
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– Jasprit Bumrah has the Joint Highest rating by an Indian bowler in Test ranking, equalling Ashwin with 904 points. pic.twitter.com/dhE7HRfc8I
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Mohammad Siraj has inched up one place to 24th and Travis Head is in the top 100 of the bowlers’ list even as a clutch of batters including Head have made headway in the latest rankings update that considers performances in all matches that ended over the past week.
Steve Smith is back in the top 10 after scoring 101 in the first innings while Alex Carey’s scores of 70 and 20 not out have lifted him 11 slots to 29th position. India’s KL Rahul has progressed 10 spots to 40th and Ravindra Jadeja nine spots to 42nd.
The ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings see the star performers of the South Africa-Pakistan ODI series make handsome gains. Player of the Series Saim Ayub, who had scores of 109, 25 and 101 in Pakistan’s memorable 3-0 victory, has advanced 57 slots to a career-best 23rd position, while for the home side, Heinrich is back in the top five after scores of 86, 97 and 81 in the series.
Tony de Zorzi of South Africa (up 12 places to 59th) and Salman Agha of Pakistan (up 28 places to 80th) are among the other movers in the batting rankings while Kagiso Rabada (up two places to 19th) and Marco Jansen (up six places to 35th) of South Africa, and Nasim Shah of Pakistan (up 10 places to 51st) have made headway in the bowling rankings.
Afghanistan bowlers Fazalhaq Farooqi (up 11 places to 37th) and Azmatullah Omarzai (up 43 places to 58th) are among others to move up the ODI bowling rankings after the end of their series against Zimbabwe that they won 2-0.
In the T20I Bowling Rankings, Bangladesh’s Mahedi Hasan has entered the top 10 while Roston Chase of the West Indies has moved towards the top 10, up 11 slots to 13th position.
