After the Test matches in Chennai and Galle, Rohit Sharma has fallen out of the top spot. At the same time, Rishabh Pant has returned to the ICC Test batting rankings at No. 6. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Prabath Jayasuriya were the other major movers up that table. Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rashid Khan, two of Afghanistan’s white-ball heroes, have made significant progress on the ODI rankings.
After almost two years, Pant returned to Test cricket for the first time after a car accident that nearly ended his career. He scored 39 and 109 runs in the Chennai Test as India defeated Bangladesh by 280 runs to win the first Test. With this performance, Pant reached 731 rating points, which catapulted him back into sixth position. Jaiswal, who had been ranked sixth before the recent ranking update, shot up to fifth position with 751 ranting points, thanks to his 56-run knock in the first inning.
With 899 points, Joe Root leads the ICC Test Batting Rankings, followed by Kane Williamson with 852 points, who scored 55 and 30 in New Zealand’s 63-run defeat in the first Test in Galle. Above Jaiswal, Daryl Mitchell 760 points (3rd), and Steven Smith 757 points (4th) maintained their positions.
But Rohit dropped quite a bit, from No. 5 to No. 10, barely four rating points above Babar Azam at No. 11, after scoring 6 and 5 in the Chennai test match. After scoring 6 and 17, Virat Kohli also dropped five spots to No. 12, and Shubman Gill, who scored 119 not out in the second inning, moved up to No. 14.
Kamindu Mendis moved up three spots to 16th on the batting chart after his 114 against New Zealand in the first inning. With his 4 for 136 and 5 for 68 to win Player-of-the-Match in Galle, Jayasuriya was the significant mover in the bowling rankings. To reach No. 8, Jayasuriya moved up five spots.
Indians and Australians dominate the ICC Test Bowling Ranking. R. Ashwin is ranked first, followed at No. 2 by Jasprit Bumrah. Following Bumrah are Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Kagiso Rabada. In sixth place is another Indian, Ravindra Jadeja, followed by Nathan Lyon at No. 7.
Gurbaz was dismissed for a duck in the opening One-Day International (ODI) match in Sharjah against South Africa. However, he bounced back, making 110 in 110 balls and 89 in 94 balls in the next two matches, helping Afghanistan win the series 2-1. That moved him up ten spots to eighth place among ODI batters and made him the first player from his country to reach the top ten in the ICC ODI Batting Rankings.
