India retain top spot in ICC Test Team rankings after annual update
Cricket | May 13, 2021 11:30 ISTIndia head the table with a rating of 121 having accumulated 2914 points from 24 matches.
India head the table with a rating of 121 having accumulated 2914 points from 24 matches.
Hasan has moved up six places to the 14th position, Shaheen jumped nine places to the 22nd and Nauman moved from 54th to 46th position.
Three players -- Rishabh Pant, New Zealand's Henry Nicholls and Rohit Sharma -- who are all on 747 points, are joint sixth. Wicketkeeper-batsman Pant has moved up three places.
Pant’s 747 rating points are the joint-15th highest by any India batsman, and the highest by a full-time Test wicketkeeper from his country.
India trounced England by an innings and 25 runs on the third day of the fourth Test to complete a 3-1 series victory on Saturday, securing their place in June's World Test Championships final against New Zealand.
India, with the 3-1 series win, now have 122 rating points having amassed 4505 points from 37 matches in the designated period.
The difference in Rohit's home and away average of 54.05 is the most by a batsman ever (min. 20 innings) but since opening the innings for India, the figure reads 24.23 which only shows that he has been growing into the role.
Indian opener Rohit Sharma moved to 8th position in the ICC Test Rankings. Three Indians are now in the top-10 among batsmen.
Ashwin hit an excellent 106 in India's second innings and took eight wickets with his off-spin in the second Test against England in Chennai.
Kohli, who had had scores of 11 and 72 in the opening Test against England, has 852 points and down one spot in the latest chart issued on Wednesday.
Apart from Kohli (862) and Pujara (760), Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane (748) is the other Indian batsman in the top-10, hanging on to the eighth spot.
Paceman Kyle Jamieson continued an extraordinary start to his test career, taking 6-48 as New Zealand beat Pakistan by an innings and 176 runs in the second test.
New Zealand will have to win the series against Pakistan and expect a tie in the Border-Gavaskar series to retain their No.1 ranking.
The win takes New Zealand to the top of the ICC Test Rankings, for the first time since the inception of the concept, with 117 ratings.
Although he remained at the second spot in the ICC rankings, the half-century helped him gain two points to reduce the gap between him and Smith from 25 to 13
In the list of all-rounders, Ravindra Jadeja is the highest-ranked Indian, currently occupying the third spot. Ashwin is placed at the sixth spot.
The Black Caps defeat the visitors by an innings and 12 runs early on the fourth day of the second Test to grab the first spot in rankings for the first time in history.
James Anderson has climbed to eighth spot in the latest ICC Test Rankings, released after England's series against Pakistan ended on Tuesday.
Broad has moved up one slot to the second position in the bowlers' list after a haul of 4/56 while Anderson has moved up two slots to 14th with figures of 3/60, as the pair helped dismiss Pakistan for 236 in their only innings of the match.
Gambhir claims that Virat Kohli and Co. have played more competitive cricket away from home than other teams as they won a Test match in South Africa, England and also won the Test series down under in Australia.
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