After efficiently lifting the Test championship mace within the last of the World Test Championship 2023, the Aussie batters have eaten up the highest of the batting charts within the newest ICC rankings. Australia’s 209-run win over India noticed them change into the one staff with all ICC titles accessible on the planet. Travis Head and Steve Smith‘s outing with the bat noticed the previous incomes the Player of the Match honour and now the duo finds itself in a particular trio shattering a 39-year-old record in Test cricket.
Before the sport kicked off final Wednesday, Marnus Labuschagne was the No.1 Test batter and Steve Smith and Travis Head occupied the third and sixth spots respectively. But after these thunderous tons within the Test last, Smith has pipped Kane Williamson to take the second place, whereas Head has jumped three locations to go on to the third place.
A 39-year-old record damaged
The Aussie trio of Labuschagne(903 rankings), Smith (885) and Head (884) occupy the highest three spots now. This turns into the one occasion of gamers from the identical nation being the highest three batters within the ICC rankings after December 1984. At that point, West Indies’ trio of Gordon Greenidge, Clive Lloyd, and Larry Gomes took the primary, second and third spot within the Test chart, respectively.
For India, there have been no locations gained within the Test chart and Ravi Ashwin remained the World No.1 Test bowler. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli preserve their twelfth and thirteenth locations, respectively, with Sharma and Kohli shedding 10 and 5 score factors respectively to indicate 729 and 700 as their newest rankings.
Scott Boland additionally obtained the reward for his deadly bowling performances as he climbed 5 locations to succeed in 36, whereas Nathan Lyon‘s second-inning outing took him two locations up to joint sixth together with Ollie Robinson.
