India pacer Jasprit Bumrah’s reign as the No. 1 Test bowler has ended with South African quick Kagiso Rabada rising to the top and surpassing the India pacer in the latest ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings.

Rabada claimed the No. 1 spot thanks to the Proteas’ strong form during the ongoing ICC World Test Championship, with the right-arm spinner taking his 300th Test wicket during South Africa’s recent seven-wicket win over Bangladesh in Mirpur.

The 29-year-old collected nine wickets during that contest to play a major role in the Proteas’ victory and moved up three places to overtake Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood and Ravichadran Ashwin in the process to return to the No. 1 ranking for bowlers. test. for the first time since early 2019.

Rabada first held the top ranking in January 2018 and has remained consistently within the top 10 for most of the time since relinquishing the No. 1 spot in February 2019.

Hazlewood is second in the Test bowlers rankings as Bumrah (third) and Ashwin (fourth) lose ground, while Pakistan spinner Noman Ali is a new member of the top 10 after his heroics in the third and last test of the recent of his team. Series against England in Rawalpindi.

Noman took nine wickets for the match and was rewarded with a jump of eight places to ninth overall and a new career-high rating in the Test bowlers list, while his colleague and teammate Sajid Khan also earns the best grade of his career by improving. 12 places to 38th after his 10 scalps in the same contest.

New Zealand’s hero of their series win over India, Mitchell Santner, also gets a new career-high rating for his 13-wicket haul in Pune, with the left-arm spinner climbing a whopping 30 steps to move to 44th overall in the latest list for Test bowlers.

Team-mate Rachin Ravindra (up eight places to 10th) is among the big changes in the updated Test batsman rankings, and England veteran Joe Root remains well ahead of this category despite a couple of low scores in the third test against Pakistan.

Root contributed scores of five and 33 during the nine-wicket defeat, with Indian youngster Yashasvi Jaiswal the main beneficiary as he gained a place to move to third in the Test batsmen’s list following contributions of 30 and 77 against the Black Caps.

Pakistani left-hander Saud Shakeel enters the top 10 of Test batsmen as he improves 20 places to move to seventh overall thanks to his 134 innings against England, while New Zealand trio Devon Conway (up eight places to 28th) , Tom Latham. (up six places to 34th) and Glenn Phillips (up 16 places to 45th) and South African Kyle Verreynne (up 14 places to 32nd) also made significant gains.

Indian duo Ravindra Jadeja and Ashwin maintain a healthy lead at the top of the Test all-rounders rankings, with Bangladesh star Mehidy Hasan the biggest draw this week as he gains two places to move to third place after solid contributions both with and with the bat. ball against South Africa.

There wasn’t much change near the top of the white-ball rankings this week, although Sri Lanka and West Indies players made some progress up the ODI rankings after completing their series in Kandy.

Sri Lankan spinner Maheesh Theekshana gained a place to move to 12th in the ODI bowlers list, while teammate Wanindu Hasaranga improves two places to 16th and West Indies spinner Gudakesh Motie , climbs nine places to 29th place.