India captain Rohit Sharma might be main Men in Blue’s cost in the third version of the World Test Championship. The 2023 WTC Final runners-up will first be up in opposition to Kraigg Brathwaite’s West Indies in a two-match contest ranging from July 12 at Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica. India will then sq. off in opposition to Windies from July 20 onwards at Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad.Â
However, even earlier than the series will get kicked off, India captain Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja have slipped in the ICC Test rankings after the weekly replace got here on Wednesday. Sharma, who was already out of the Top 10 in the Test batters rankings additional go down one spot from twelfth to thirteenth. Going previous the Indian star is England’s younger prodigy Harry Brook, who performed an important hand in England’s comeback win over Australia in the third Ashes Test at Headingley. Meanwhile, Jadeja loses one place from ninth after Stuart Broad’s rise.
Travis Head, Babar Azam achieve as huge weapons undergo
Notably, there was an enormous reshuffle in the highest six in the batters’ chart in Test rankings. While Kane Williamson saved his World No.1 honours, the opposite 5 noticed a musical chair kind of change. Steve Smith and Marnus Labushcagne drop two locations every to 4th and fifth respectively. Whereas Joe Root noticed a one-place decline to sixth. Making gains had been Travis Head and Babar Azam to take 2nd and third locations, respectively. While Head went two locations up after a great hand in the third Ashes Test, Azam scaled three spots as a result of fall of the opposite gamers.
England stars make gains
Not solely Brook however just a few extra England stars have jumped locations in the Test tally. Speedster Stuart Broad has scaled 4 locations from tenth to take sixth in the Test bowlers’ tally. Ollie Robinson, Nathan Lyon, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja – all went one place down every as they needed to compensate for Broad.
Making a Test comeback with a wonderful fifer at Headingley, Mark Wood has additionally gone up 9 locations to take twenty sixth in the bowlers’ chart.
