Ashwin rises to No.1 among bowlers; Rohit back among top-10 batters in ICC Test rankings
India skipper Rohit Sharma was back in the top 10, ranking sixth in the batting charts of the latest ICC Test rankings on Wednesday.
India skipper Rohit Sharma was back in the top 10, ranking sixth in the batting charts of the latest ICC Test rankings on Wednesday.
Kohli's innings of 74 & 4 in the Adelaide Test, which India lost by eight wickets, has enabled him to gain two points, whereas Smith's 1 & 1* lost him 10 points in the table.
Stuart Broad has moved up one slot to second position after a haul of 4/56, while countrymate James Anderson has moved up two slots to 14th.
On ending the 18 months reign of Jason Holder, Ben Stokes has become the first England cricketer to achieve the feat since Andrew Flintoff in May 2006.
Jason Holder, who picked seven wickets including a haul of six for 42 in the first innings, is now on a career-best 862 points in bowlers rankings.
After a transition period post the ball-tampering scandal, Australia displaced India as the number one Test side.
India are no longer the number 1 ranked Test team for the first time since October 2016 largely because they had a brilliant run in 2016-17, the results of which no longer influence the current rankings.
Azhar Ali said that he was working to get rid of the fear factor from the Pakistan team so that a relaxed environment can be created in the dressing room.
Performance of Jasprit Bumrah in the second Test against New Zealand, where he took five wickets, helped him claim the seventh spot in the latest rankings.
Post the recent update Smith now has as many as 911 points against his name, in comparison to Virat Kohli who has 906 points.
