Latest ICC Test rankings: Jasprit Bumrah becomes No.1 Test bowler
Jasprit Bumrah has been crowned as the new No.1 ranked bowler in ICC’s Test rankings.
In the latest ICC rankings update, Jasprit Bumrah has displaced Ravichandran Ashwin at the top of the bowler’s rankings, becoming the first fast bowler from India to top the ICC Test bowler rankings.
After a performance for the ages in the second Test of the series between India and England in Vizag, where Bumrah took nine wickets across the two innings, the right-arm seamer has climbed to the No.1 spot.
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Ashwin had held the top spot in the ICC Test bowler rankings since March last year, but has now been pushed down to No.3, after a below par performance in Vizag where he picked just three wickets in the game.
Two other Indians apart from Ashwin and Bumrah have held the top spot in Test bowler rankings previously – Ravindra Jadeja and Bishan Singh Bedi.
Another left-arm spinner, Sri Lanka’s Prabath Jayasuriya, has moved up the ICC Test bowler rankings. Having taken eight wickets in the one-off Test against Afghanistan, Jayasuriya has climbed three places to sixth. James Anderson, meanwhile, has climbed a spot to seventh after his five wickets in the Vizag Test against India.
In the Test batter rankings, Steve Smith and Joe Root have swapped places with the Englishman moving one spot down to No.3 after a poor two Test matches against India.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has made a massive jump after his match-winning double hundred against England. The young left-hander has moved up 37 places to 29th in the ICC Test batter rankings. His counterpart, English opener Zak Crawley, has also improved his ranking after two scores of 70-plus in Vizag. Crawley has climbed eight spots to 22nd.
Kane Williamson, meanwhile, continues his stranglehold at the top of the Test batting rankings after scoring two hundreds in the first Test against South Africa.
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