ICC Test Rankings: R Ashwin rises to second, Mayank Agarwal jumps to eleventh

Senior India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin climbed a rung to second whereas his teammate and opener Mayank Agarwal, together with New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel additionally made enormous progress within the ICC Test Rankings issued on Wednesday.
Agarwal’s Player of the Match effort within the second Test in Mumbai, the place he scored 150 and 62, has helped him acquire 30 spots and attain eleventh place within the newest replace to the lads’s rankings.
He is only one spot beneath a career-best tenth place that he first attained in November 2019.
The Mumbai-born Patel, who turned solely the third participant to take all 10 wickets in a Test innings, emulating Jim Laker and Anil Kumble, has moved up 23 slots to thirty eighth after ending with 14 wickets within the match.
The left-arm spinner’s earlier greatest rating was 53rd and he had began the sequence in 62nd place.

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Others to maneuver up within the rankings after the Mumbai Test, which was part of the ICC World Championships, are India opener Shubman Gill (up 21 locations to forty fifth), quick bowler Mohammad Siraj (up 4 locations to forty first) and New Zealand batter Daryl Mitchell (up 26 locations to 78th).
Ashwin has bridged the hole with top-ranked bowler Pat Cummins after ending with 4 wickets in every innings in India’s 372-run victory.
Ashwin has gained 43 ranking factors to achieve a complete of 883 and is 67 factors forward of third-placed Josh Hazlewood.
He has moved up one place to second amongst all-rounders whilst his compatriot Ravindra Jadeja has slipped to fourth within the record led by West Indies’ Jason Holder.
Holder has gained one spot to achieve 14th amongst bowlers in Wednesday’s replace, that additionally considers performances from the Galle Test that Sri Lanka received by 164 runs to finish a 2-0 sequence victory and stay atop the ICC World Test Championship factors desk.
Kraigg Brathwaite (up 10 locations to thirty ninth) and Nkrumah Bonner (up 17 locations to forty second) are the batters to maneuver up for the West Indies however the one to achieve essentially the most after the Galle Test is Player of the Match Dhananjaya de Silva, who has superior 12 locations to twenty first after his unbeaten 155 within the second innings.
Spinners Lasith Embuldeniya and Ramesh Mendis too have made substantial beneficial properties. Embuldeniya has gained 5 slots to achieve thirty second place after ending with seven wickets within the match, whereas Mendis has progressed 18 locations to thirty ninth with an 11-wicket match haul.
Among batters, Rohit Sharma, who didn’t play within the Mumbai Test, and Virat Kohli (0 and 36) remained on fifth and sixth respectively.