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Rabada again No. 1 in ICC men’s Test bowling rankings
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Rabada again No. 1 in ICC men’s Test bowling rankings

South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada regained the number position in the ICC men’s Test bowling rankings after finishing with nine wickets in the first match of their ICC World Test Championship series against Bangladesh in Mirpur.

The 29-year-old, who became the fastest to reach 300 Test wickets on the first day of the Test match, pipped Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah and Josh Hazlewood to take the top spot after helping his team win the match by seven wickets.

Rabada topped the rankings for the first time after the Newlands Test against India in January 2018 and held the top spot for much of the next 12 months.

In the latest weekly rankings update, which also considers performances in the third Test between Pakistan and England in Rawalpindi and the second Test between India and New Zealand in Pune, left-arm spinners Noman Ali of Pakistan and Mitchel Santner of New Zealand have also achieved great things. progress.

Noman is in the top 10 for the first time, moving up eight places to ninth position after finishing with nine wickets in Rawalpindi as Pakistan won by nine wickets to clinch the WTC series 2-1.

Santner, whose haul of 13 for 157 in the 113-run win at Pune is the third-best by a New Zealand player after Richard Hadlee’s 15 for 123 and Ajaz Patel’s 14 for 224, has progressed 30 places to 44th position. , five spots behind his career-best 39th position achieved in January 2017.

Other bowlers who advanced include Bangladesh’s Taijul Islam (up three places to 18th), England’s Gus Atkinson (up two places to 22nd), Pakistan’s Sajid Khan (up 12 places to 38th) and Wiaan Mulder of South Africa (up nine places to 50).

In the batting rankings, India opener Yashaswi Jaiswal returned to number three after scores of 30 and 77, while other left-handers, Pakistan’s Saud Shakeel and New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra, cracked the top 10 for the first time. once in their careers.

Shakeel has moved up 20 places to reach seventh position after his knock of 134 earned him the Player of the Match award, while Ravindra moved up eight places to tenth with a useful half-century in the first innings.

New Zealanders Devon Conway (up eight places to 28th), Tom Latham (up six places to 34th) and Glenn Phillips (up 16 places to 45th), Englishman Jamie Smith (up seven places to 37th), captain Pakistan’s Shan Masood (up five places to 57) and Bangladesh’s Mehidy Hasan Miraz (up nine places to 63) are other major gainers in the batting rankings.

Mehidy has also moved up two places to third position in the list of all-rounders, while India’s Washington Sundar has re-entered the rankings at 53rd position among bowlers, 84th among batsmen and 25th among all-rounders. .

After the recent Test results, New Zealand are fourth in the ICC World Test Championship table with 50 points and the potential to rise to 64.29 with one more match in the series against India and three home tests against England.

India leads by 62.82 percentage points but has a challenging five-match away series against Australia, who are currently in second place with Sri Lanka in third position.

For the ICC World Test Championship standings, click here.

To know more about ICC classifications, click here.