Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has created history on Wednesday, 7 February. In fact, 30-year-old Jasprit Bumrah, who gave a top class performance in the second Test against England and took 9 wickets, has become the first Indian fast bowler to be crowned number 1 in Test ranking.
Great performance against England yielded results for Jasprit Bumrah :-
This performance against England helped him overtake Australia captain Pat Cummins, South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada and India’s Ravichandran Ashwin. Earlier, three Indians have achieved number 1 rank in Tests which are Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Bishan Singh Bedi but all three are spinners.
These are the top 5 bowlers in the ICC Test bowling rankings: –
At present, Jasprit Bumrah is at the top in Tests with a rating of 881, while Kagiso Rabada of South Africa is at second place with a rating of 851. The third place is acquired by another Indian bowler Ravichandran Ashwin who has 841 rating points, while at the fourth place is Australian captain Pat Cummins with a rating of 828. At fifth position is another Australian bowler Josh Halywood with a rating of 818.
Yashasvi Jaiswal took a big leap :-
Talking about batting rankings, Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal’s double century in the second Test against England took him to 29th position, while Shubman Gill reached 38th position after his century in the same match.
These are the top 5 bowlers in ICC test batting rankings:-
Now talking about the top 5 batsmen in the batting rankings, Pakistan’s Babar Azam is at fifth place with 768 rating, while New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell is at fourth place with 786 rating. England’s Joe Root is in third place with a rating of 797, while Australia’s Steve Smith is in second place with a rating of 818.
No. on batting test ranking. At 1 is Kane Williamson of New Zealand who currently has 864 rating points.
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