Highlights
- Labuschagne has been doing well in the Ashes series
- Indian captain Virat Kohli has 756 rating points
- Pakistan captain Babar again number one in T20 rankings
Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli has slipped a place in the batsmen’s list in the latest ICC Test World Rankings, while Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne has replaced England captain Joe Root at the world No. became a batsman. India’s Rohit Sharma remains in fifth place.
Among bowlers, Ravichandran Ashwin still holds the second position behind Australia captain Pat Cummins. Kohli, who played in the second Test against New Zealand, was previously ranked sixth but is now in seventh place with 756 points.
Labuschagne has risen to the top of the ICC (International Cricket Council) rankings for batsmen for the first time after his impressive performance in the two matches played so far in the Ashes series.
He managed to slip Root (897 points) to second place with a career-best 912 ratings points. He was fourth before the series but has moved up two places to second after scoring 74 in Australia’s win in the first Ashes Test in Brisbane. But he scored a century and half-centuries (103 and 51) in Adelaide as Australia beat England by 275 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the Ashes series.
His teammate Mitchell Starc managed to break into the top 10 of the Test bowlers’ rankings with his performance of 6/80 (4 wickets in the first innings) in the second Test. He has reached ninth place.
Babar on top in T20 rankings
In the ranking of T20 International players, Pakistan captain Babar Azam has again regained the top position in the list of batsmen. He was able to make a comeback a week after losing first place.
He slipped two places to the third spot in last week’s ranking update after scoring zero and seven runs in the first T20 International against the West Indies. In the final T20 International, he played a brilliant innings of 79 runs as Pakistan cleaned up the series against West Indies. With this, he is jointly at the top of the ranking with David Malan.
His fellow opener Mohammad Rizwan jumped to the third position in the batsmen’s rankings with a career-best 798 rating points. The new vice-captain of India’s limited overs team, KL Rahul, is the fifth-ranked best Indian player. There is no Indian bowler in the top 10 list of T20 bowlers.
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