Team India bowlers Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja made big gains in the ICC rankings for Test match bowlers. Ashwin jumped to the No. 2 position, just a few points behind England’s new No. 1-ranked bowler James Anderson. Player of the match Jadeja also returned to the top 10 of the bowlers’ rankings in the second Test after taking seven wickets in the second innings against Australia.
Anderson has replaced Australia skipper Pat Cummins, who was at the helm since February 2019. Anderson first became No. 1 in May 2016 and was at the top in November 2018 before being overtaken by South African Kagiso Rabada. Anderson is the oldest bowler to top the Test rankings since Australia great Clarrie Grimmett in 1936 and the fifth oldest ever.
Anderson now has 866 rating points while Ashwin has 864 points. Australia skipper Cummins slipped to the third spot with 858 points.
India all-rounder Jadeja has moved up seven places to ninth position after taking 10 wickets in the second Test in Delhi, his first time in the top 10 since September 2019. His spin partner Ashwin has moved up to the second spot while the late-order heroics of other India spinner Akshar Patel has also pushed him into the top five for all-rounders.
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Australia’s Nathan Lyon has jumped two places to reach 15th position after taking seven wickets in the match which his team lost by six wickets.
England batsmen Ollie Pope (up six places to 23rd), Harry Brook (up 12 places to 31st) and Ben Duckett (up 13 places to 38th) achieved career-best rankings, as did New Zealand’s Tom Blundell And Devon Conway has done it. Blundell’s 138 in the first innings saw him move up four places to 11th, while Conway’s 77 saw him move up five places to 17th.
The ODI rankings have also seen some ups and downs after the matches of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2. Scotland’s George Munsey has moved up seven places to 39th among batsmen, while Nepal’s RK Paudel has moved from 76th to 67th. In the bowling rankings, Nepal leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane has gained 12 places to reach 31st position, while Scotland pacer Safyaan Sharif has moved from 51st to 45th position.
In the men’s T20I rankings, updated after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) vs Afghanistan series, UAE’s Muhammad Wasim moved up six places to seventh, while Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Hasaranga slipped past Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan to No.1. are back. Behind him.
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Team India bowlers Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja made big gains in the ICC rankings for Test match bowlers. Ashwin jumped to the No. 2 position, just a few points behind England’s new No. 1-ranked bowler James Anderson. Player of the match Jadeja also returned to the top 10 of the bowlers’ rankings in the
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