Pakistan and India players were the biggest beneficiaries in the latest ICC Test Men’s Rankings that were announced on Wednesday (26 July), while Ashes performers also made significant gains.

Kane Williamson continues to lead the batting charts despite not playing a Test in four months. He has a 14-point lead over second-placed Marnus Labuschagne, who scored 51 and 111 at Old Trafford to overcome a poor Ashes series. He rose to second place, and is followed by Joe Root, who climbed from sixth to third place after his half-century helped England take a massive 275-run lead in the fourth Test.

Ashes updates

Just 19 points separate Root (853) and sixth-placed Steve Smith, who has registered only 116 runs in his last five innings. He dropped down two points, after starting the series as the second-best batter in the ICC rankings.

Harry Brook registered a career-best 11th rank, while Zak Crawley rose 13 places, to 35th. Among bowlers, Mark Wood moved from 26th to 23rd, while Chris Woakes is now 31st.

West Indies v India updates

Mohammed Siraj, who won the Player of the Match award in the second Test after a five-for, has registered career-best ratings of 563 points. He jumped five places, to 33rd. Yashasvi Jaiswal also jumped up 10 places to 63rd after dominating the tour with a hundred and a fifty in three innings.

R Ashwin continues leading the charge in the bowler’s rankings after his 12-wicket haul in the first Test. He is 44 points ahead of second-placed Kagiso Rabada.

Sri Lanka v Pakistan updates

Saud Shakeel, who is in the midst of a historical run in Tests, made a double hundred against Sri Lanka at Galle to register career-best ratings of 691 points. He rose 12 spots to 15th in the latest charts.

Prabath Jayasuriya also registered his best, reaching 791 career points, after picking seven wickets in the first Test. He rose from eighth to seventh.

ICC Test rankings: Batters

1 Kane Williamson NZ 883
2 Marnus Labuschagne AUS 869
3 Joe Root ENG 852
4 Travis Head AUS 847
5 Babar Azam PAK 835
6 Steve Smith AUS 833
7 Daryl Mitchell NZ 792
8 Usman Khawaja AUS 788
9 Dimuth Karunaratne SL 759
9 Rohit Sharma IND 759

ICC Test rankings: Bowlers

1 R Ashwin IND 879
2 Kagiso Rabada SA 825
2 Pat Cummins AUS 802
4 James Anderson ENG 789
5 Shaheen Afridi PAK 784
6 Ravindra Jadeja IND 782
7 Prabath Jayasuriya SL 781
8 Stuart Broad ENG 771
9 Ollie Robinson ENG 769
10 Nathan Lyon AUS 767

ICC Test rankings: All-rounders

1 Ravindra Jadeja IND 455
2 Ravichandran Ashwin IND 370
3 Shakib Al Hasan BAN 332
4 Ben Stokes ENG 323
5 Axar Patel IND 298
6 Jason Holder WI 280
7 Joe Root ENG 267
8 Mitchell Starc AUS 248
9 Kyle Mayers WI 240
10 Pat Cummins AUS 214