Babar Azam has achieved his career-best Test ranking, rising up to second place in the latest ICC rankings. He also has 875 rating points, which is his joint-highest ever.

Babar ended the England Test series with a hundred and three fifties, including two in the final game, leapfrogging Steve Smith to No.2 in the ICC Test rankings. He surpassed his previous best rank of No.3, which he achieved earlier this month after his ton in the first Test match. He is 61 points behind top-placed Marnus Labuschagne.

Smith had a poor Test match against South Africa last week, scoring 36 and six in a low-scoring encounter, and dropped five points and one slot below Babar. However, his teammate Travis Head jumped up three places into the top five for the first time in his career. Head made a 96-ball 92 at the Gabba against South Africa, which allowed him to jump up to fourth place. With a career-best 826, he is tied with points with Joe Root.

Root was unable to contribute to England’s historic win in Pakistan, scoring 23, 73, 8, 21 and 0. However, the efforts of the rest of the England players were rewarded, with Ben Stokes rising two slots to No.25, Ollie Pope jumping a spot to No.28. Player of the Series Harry Brook scaled 11 places to No.44, entering the top 50 for the first time.

Elsewhere, India batters Cheteshwar Pujara and Shubman Gill, who scored hundreds against Bangladesh, both moved up. Pujara’s 90 and 102 not out took him from 38th to 19th place, while Gill’s maiden ton helped him rise from 64th to 54th.

There was only a slight movement in the bowling charts in the top 10. With eight wickets out of the 14 South Africa took in Brisbane, Kagiso Rabada climbed four spots to No.3.

ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings (Batting)

1 Marnus Labuschagne – 936
2 Babar Azam – 875
3 Steve Smith – 870
4 Travis Head 826
5 Joe Root – 826
6 Rishabh Pant – 794
7 Kane Williamson – 786
8 Dimuth Karunaratne – 748
9 Rohit Sharma – 739
10 Usman Khawaja – 719

ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings (Bowling)

1 Pat Cummins – 880
2 James Anderson – 835
3 Kagiso Rabada – 824
4 Jasprit Bumrah – 820
5 R Ashwin – 819
6 Ollie Robinson – 805
7 Shaheen Afridi – 803
8 Kyle Jamieson – 788
9 Mitchell Starc – 765
10 Neil Wagner – 747

ICC Men’s Player Test Ranking (All-rounders)

1 Ravindra Jadeja – 376
2 Ravichandran Ashwin – 336
3 Shakib Al Hasan – 329
4 Ben Stokes – 324
5 Mitchell Starc – 281
6 Jason Holder – 273
7 Pat Cummins – 243
8 Colin de Grandhomme – 238
9 Kyle Mayers – 238
10 Kyle Jamieson – 221