Rishabh Pant, Virat Kohli, and Rohit Sharma successful clock-wise direction. (FILE)
Riding connected a sensational period successful his Test comeback, wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant connected Wednesday re-entered the ICC rankings astatine an awesome sixth presumption but India skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli slipped successful a large shake-up successful standings.
Pant (731), who smashed a stunning period successful the opening crippled of the two-Test bid against Bangladesh successful Chennai, was placed sixth, portion opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (751), moved up to 5th acknowledgment to a half-century successful the archetypal innings of the Test match.
India skipper Rohit Sharma retained his spot successful the apical ten, though helium moved down 5 places with 2 underwhelming scores. He has 716 standing points.
Kohli besides dropped 5 spots to spell retired of the top-10 and helium is present placed 12th successful the standings.
The Sri Lanka-New Zealand Test successful Galle brought astir apical 10 bowling rankings shifts, with Prabath Jayasuriya solidifying his estimation arsenic 1 of the game’s champion spinners, moving 5 spots into eighth aft a nine-wicket haul.
Jayasuriya (743) is the highest-ranked subordinate representing Sri Lanka crossed the 3 disciplines, moving past Asitha Fernando, who slid down 2 spots to 13th (700).
Kamindu Mendis, who moved up 3 spots to 16th successful the batting rankings and Dhananjaya de Silva, who climbed 5 spots to 18th connected the All-Rounder Rankings (168) were different movers implicit enactment successful the victory.
In ODI rankings, young Afghan prima Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Australian Travis Head leapt into the apical 10 successful the Batting rankings, acknowledgment to quick-fire hundreds successful enactment crossed UAE and England.
Gurbaz continued his imagination vocation commencement successful ODI cricket, hitting his seventh period successful the format earlier his 23rd birthday, and moving 10 spots successful the process up to eighth (692) to go the first-ever Afghan batter to scope the apical 10 positions of the ICC Men’s ODI Batting Ranking.
The erstwhile champion performer from the Asian state successful the ODI Batting Rankings was Ibrahim Zadran, who had reached the 12th rank.
Gurbaz edged Head, who moved 7 spots to ninth (684) successful ample portion acknowledgment to his 154 not retired (129) successful the archetypal of 5 ODIs against rivals England.
Afghan leg-spinner Rashid Khan joined Rahmanullah successful the rankings headlines, moving 8 spots to 3rd (668) successful the ODI Bowling Rankings, claiming 7 wickets crossed the team’s 2 victories against South Africa successful UAE.
The contributions of the brace helped Afghanistan to an ODI bid triumph implicit the Proteas, their archetypal against a apical five-ranked absorption successful their history.