India’s bowler Jasprit Bumrah celebrates for the wicket of England’s batter Ben Foakes in the course of the fourth day of the second Test match between India and England, at Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, in Visakhapatnam, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.
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Jasprit Bumrah on February 7 grew to become the first Indian pacer to prime the ICC Test rankings after a stellar efficiency towards England in Visakhapatnam.
The 30-year-old’s nine-wicket match haul has helped him leapfrog Pat Cummins, Kagiso Rabada and Ravichandran Ashwin, making him solely the fourth from his nation to attain primary place.
Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Bishan Singh Bedi are the opposite Indians who’ve been on the prime of the charts.
Bumrah, who was named Player of the Match after serving to India stage the five-match collection with a 106-run victory, ended Ashwin’s 11-month lengthy reign. Ashwin, on 499 Test wickets, is now third in the standings.
Bumrah now has 881 score factors with Ashwin (904) and Jadeja (899) the one India bowlers to have aggregated extra score factors. Ashwin and Jadeja even have the distinctive distinction of being collectively top-ranked in March 2017.
The batting rankings see left-handed opener Yashasvi Jaiswal progress 37 locations to twenty ninth after finishing a advantageous double-century in the first innings and Shubman Gill go up 14 locations to a career-best thirty eighth after notching a century in the second innings.
England opener Zak Crawley is one other participant to achieve after the Visakhapatnam Test, transferring up eight locations to a career-best twenty second place after scores of 76 and 73.
Rookie leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed has moved up 14 locations to seventieth whereas Tom Hartley, who grew to become simply the second England participant with not less than 50 runs and 5 wickets in every of his first two Tests, has superior in each lists – up from 103rd to ninety fifth in the batting rankings and from 63rd to 53rd in the bowling rankings.
The newest rankings have additionally factored in performances in the one-off Test between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in Colombo. Left-arm spinner Prabhath Jayasuriya has moved up to three locations to a career-best sixth place after his eight-wicket match haul helped the house facet win by 10 wickets.
In the ODI rankings, Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa is up one place to third and quick bowler Sean Abbott’s six wickets in the three-match collection towards the West Indies this previous week have lifted him 35 locations to joint-Thirty third place.
