ICC Test rankings- Root and Anderson moves up to 3rd and Kohli drops down

ICC Test batting rankings- Joe Root moves up to No. 3 after a double hundred and Virat Kohli slips to the fifth Position

England captain Joe Root played his 100th test match against India in MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, and his match-winning Innings of 218 in the first Test against India has helped him advance two places to third position in ICC Test rankings.

Root, who helped his team to a memorable 227-run victory in Chennai that kept England in contention for the ICC World Test Championship final, has reached 883 rating points, his highest since September 2017, after a fabulous run in the sub-continent has seen him accumulate 684 runs in three Tests, two of which were in Sri Lanka.

James Anderson rising to the third spot from sixth – moving past Neil Wagner, Josh Hazlewood, and Tim Southee after his match haul of 5 for 63 in the first Test against India in MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Anderson is at his highest ranking since the start of the ICC World Test Championship

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Stuart Broad, who was not in the playing XI in Chennai, is only four rating points ahead of him at No. 2 in the chart

Jack Leach and Dominic Bess are both at career-best rating points, moving up to 37th and 41st positions, respectively.

Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Biumrah have gained one place each and claimed seventh and eighth place respectively.