Jasprit Bumrah has regained the No. 1 spot successful the ICC Test bowling rankings aft spearheading his squad to a grounds 295-run triumph implicit Australia. (AP)
India pacer Jasprit Bumrah has regained the No. 1 spot successful the ICC Test bowling rankings aft spearheading his squad to a grounds 295-run triumph implicit Australia successful the archetypal Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test successful Perth past Sunday.
Bumrah’s spellbinding hauls of 5 for 30 and 3 for 42 helped him overtake Australia seamer Josh Hazlewood and South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada to scope a career-best 883 standing points, the highest standing points tally ever by an India seam bowler. Only spinners Ravichandran Ashwin (904) and Ravindra Jadeja (899) person recorded higher constituent tallies among Indian bowlers.
This is the 3rd clip that Bumrah has been atop the rankings this year. He was apical ranked for 2 one-month stretches each starting successful February and October.
Jaiswal up to No. 2, Kohli backmost successful apical 15
After signaling his maiden 100 successful Australia successful his 2nd innings, Yashasvi Jaiswal continued his sizzling tally of signifier to marque a career-best 2nd presumption connected the Test batting rankings. Jaiswal surpassed Harry Brook and Kane Williamson aft top-scoring successful Perth with 161 successful the 2nd innings.
Meanqwhile, prima India batter Virat Kohli besides made a instrumentality to the apical 15 aft precocious falling extracurricular the apical 20 for the archetypal clip successful 10 years. Kohli’s unbeaten 100 disconnected 143 balls helped him leap up to the 13th spot, advancing 9 spots from 22.