Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nissanka has gained 42 places in the new ICC Test rankings. In the rankings released on Wednesday, Nissanka has reached the 39th rank with 568 points. Indian team’s star players Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal are not playing Tests at the moment, but even after this they have gained one place each. England’s Joe Root is at the top of the batsmen’s rankings. While Harry Brook has lost 7 places. Brook has now reached the 12th position with 709 points. Nissanka had won the match by scoring a century
Pathum Nissanka was second in terms of scoring the most runs for Sri Lanka in the recently concluded Sri Lanka-England Test series. Nissanka had scored 217 runs, which included a century and a half-century. He had won the match for Sri Lanka in England after 10 years by scoring a century in the last match. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal benefit
Indian players Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal have gained one place each. Indian Test team captain Rohit Sharma has now reached number five with a rating of 751. At the same time, Yashasvi Jaiswal is now at number 6 with a rating of 740. Virat Kohli has reached number 7. His rating is 737. The Indian team will be seen in action in the Test against Bangladesh from September 19. Harry Brook out of top 10
Australia opener Usman Khawaja has gained one place. His rating is now 728 and he has come to number-8. Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan is at number 9, his rating is 720. Australia’s Labuschagne is also at number 10 with the same rating. Pakistan’s Babar Azam has also gained one place. He has now reached number 11 from 12. His rating is 712. England’s Harry Brook has lost seven places. Now he is out of the top-10. His rating is 709. No change in the ranking of top-4 players
England’s Joe Root is still number one in the Test rankings released by ICC. His rating has now become 899. New Zealand’s Kane Williamson is in second place. His rating is currently 859. New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell remains at number three in the Test rankings with a rating of 768. Steve Smith is at number-4 in the rankings with a rating of 757. Ashwin tops the bowling rankings
In the new bowling rankings of ICC, India’s Ravichandran Ashwin remains at number-1 with a rating of 870. Josh Hazlewood and Jasprit Bumrah are at the second position with 847 points. New Zealand’s Kyle Jamieson and Matt Henry have gained one place each. Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi has also gained one position. He has now moved up from 11th position to 10th position.
