ICC Test Rankings: Shreyas Iyer enters checklist; Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli retain spots

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli continued to be best-placed Indians within the batting chart, whereas off-spinner Ravichandra Ashwin additionally held on to the second spot amongst bowlers within the newest ICC Test Player rating launch on Wednesday.
While Rohit (fifth), Kohli (sixth) and Ashwin retained their spots, pacer Jasprit Bumrah slipped one place to the tenth place.
Save Ashwin, all the opposite three gamers weren’t a part of the primary Test in opposition to New Zealand which resulted in a attract Kanpur on Monday.
Debutant Shreyas Iyer’s Player-of-the-Match effort of 105 and 65 helped him enter the batting rankings in 74th place, whereas opener Shubman Gill (up six locations to 66th) and Wriddhiman Saha (up 9 locations to 99th) additionally made notable progress after notching half-centuries within the first Test.
Ravindra Jadeja is up two locations to nineteenth amongst bowlers with 5 wickets within the match and can also be up one place to second amongst all-rounders. Ashwin is the third-ranked all-rounder and 79th amongst batters.

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For New Zealand, Tom Latham’s knocks of 95 and 52 positioned him again within the prime 10 amongst batters as he goes up from 14th to ninth.
Kyle Jamieson is ninth amongst bowlers, his three wickets in every innings leading to a acquire of six locations.
Tim Southee has gained 15 score factors to succeed in inside one level of second-placed Ashwin (840) after his eight-wicket match haul.
The newest weekly replace additionally consists of the primary Test between Sri Lanka and the West Indies at Galle, which the hosts gained by 187 runs and the opening Test between Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Pakistan quick bowler Shaheen Afridi made it to the highest 5 for the primary time in his profession after a wonderful present within the first Test which his facet gained by eight wickets.
The 21-year-old left-arm bowler, who grabbed seven wickets together with a haul of 5 for 32 within the second innings of the Chittagong Test, has moved up three locations to fifth place after overtaking James Anderson, Kagiso Rabada and Neil Wagner.
Shaheen’s new-ball accomplice Hasan Ali jumped 5 locations to a career-best eleventh after ending with the same seven-wicket match haul that included a five-for within the first innings.

Among batters, Abid Ali could have missed out on a century in every innings however his scores of 133 and 91 helped him shoot up 27 slots to a career-best twentieth place, whereas Abdullah Shafique enters the rankings at 83rd with scores of 52 and 73.
For Bangladesh, Mushfiqur Rahim is up 4 locations to nineteenth with scores of 91 and 16, whereas Liton Das has moved up 26 locations to a career-best thirty first place after accruing 114 and 59.
Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam has progressed two locations to twenty third after an eight-wicket match haul that included seven scalps within the first innings.
Sri Lanka, whose win of their first match of the ICC Test Championship put them on prime of the desk, additionally had some enhancements after the Galle Test.
Captain Dimuth Karunaratne’s Player-of-the-Match effort of 147 and 83 has lifted him 4 locations to seventh, whereas Angelo Mathews (up two locations to twenty third) and Dinesh Chandimal (up 4 locations to forty sixth) have additionally moved up.