India’s Rishabh Pant turned the top-ranked wicket-keeper batsman on the planet after his sensational series-winning 89-run knock within the Brisbane match pushed him to a career-best thirteenth spot within the ICC Test batting rankings, issued on Wednesday.
Pant, who gained many admirers for his fearless and mature batting, has 691 factors in his kitty. South Africa’s Quinton de Kock (677) is the following finest wicket-keeper batsman within the listing within the fifteenth place.
Australia batsman Marnus Labuschagne’s first-innings century in Brisbane took him previous India skipper Virat Kohli (862 factors) to 3rd place with a career-best 878 ranking factors. Kohli missed the motion as he was on paternity go away.
Young India opener Shubman Gill continued his upward trajectory, transferring up from 68th to forty seventh spot after a vital 91 within the second innings of the fourth Test, which India gained by three wickets on Tuesday.
Middle-order mainstay Cheteshwar Pujara moved up one place to seventh after his dogged effort, whereas Mohammad Siraj jumped 32 locations to forty fifth after taking six wickets within the match, together with a five-wicket haul within the second innings.
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Debutant Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur too gained in rankings following their helpful contributions with each bat and ball.
Washington entered the rankings in 82nd (batting) and 97th (bowling) positions, whereas Thakur re-entered the batting listing in 113th place and bowling listing in sixty fifth place.
Australia captain Tim Paine moved up three spots to forty second after scores of fifty and 27 whereas quick bowler Josh Hazlewood leapfrogged New Zealand’s Tim Southee to the fourth spot after grabbing six wickets within the match, together with a haul of 5 for 57 within the first innings.
England’s Joe Root has returned to the highest 5 together with his highest ranking factors tally (738) in two years after scoring a first-innings 228 to assist his crew win the primary Test towards Sri Lanka by seven wickets in Galle.
Root has superior six locations, overtaking the likes of Pakistan’s Babar Azam and Pujara within the course of.
England spinners Jack Leach and Dominic Bess made notable progress after their five-wicket hauls in Galle. Leach’s second innings’ figures of 5 for 122 lifted him three locations to fortieth whereas Bess’s 5 for 30 within the first innings took him from 67th to fiftieth place.
Jonny Bairstow (up 5 locations to 58th in batting) and Sam Curran (up two locations to thirty ninth in bowling) additionally gained.
For Sri Lanka, Lahiru Thirimanne’s second innings century helped him progress 12 locations to 87th place whereas left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya (up six locations to forty seventh) and medium-pacer Asitha Fernando (up 11 locations to 96th) additionally gained.
