Former India captain Virat Kohli is again in top 15 in the latest ICC Test rankings following his stellar knock of 186 runs in the just lately concluded fourth and closing Test match against Australia. He has jumped seven locations to complete at thirteenth rank in the latest ICC Test rankings. Kohli ended his century drought in Test cricket after a large 1205 days and led India’s reply to Australia’s imposing whole of 480 runs in the primary innings of the Ahmedabad Test.Â
Meanwhile, the one two Indian batters in the top 10 are Rishabh Pant (ninth) and Rohit Sharma (tenth). While Pant is out because of an extended harm layoff and is more likely to drop out of the record quickly, Rohit Sharma could not do a lot after his first innings heroics in Nagpur Test. Among bowlers, Ravichandran Ashwin is now the only proprietor of the primary place in Test cricket and has left behind James Anderson who’s on the second place.
He picked up as many as 25 wickets in the four-match Test sequence against Australia solely to win the joint Player of the Series award alongside his teammate Ravindra Jadeja. The latter, in the meantime, picked up 22 wickets and scored 130-odd runs in the sequence.
Australia’s batters Cameron Green and Usman Khawaja additionally slammed centuries and so they have additionally made vital positive factors in the rankings. Khawaja has climbed two locations on the seventh place whereas Green ended the sequence on the twenty sixth place, 11 locations up. Travis Head ended a topsy turvy sequence with a rating of 90 in the second innings of Ahmedabad Test and he maintained his fifth rank in Test cricket.
Among different matches, Daryl Mitchell entered the top 10 in the ICC Test rankings after scores of 102 and 81. He is now on the eighth place in rankings, up by 4 locations.