Dubai, Aug 18: India skipper Virat kohli continues to remain at second spot in the ICC Test Player Rankings among batsmen while in the bowling department fellow teammate Jasprit Bumrah has slided to ninth spot in the latest ICC Test Rankings released on Tuesday.
Kohli with second spot has 886 points while Australian Steve Smith also continues to remain static at no one spot with 911 points.
Apart from Kohli other Indian batsmen who are ranked among top ten among with unchanged rankings among batters are Cheteshwar Pujara at 8th spot with 766 points and Ajinkya Rahane 10th spot with 726 points.
While other Indian Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin are also in top five with their rankings remaining static among all-rounders at 3rd and 5th spot with 397 and 281 points respectively.
England’s Broad has moved up one slot to second position in the bowlers’ list after a haul of 4/56 while Anderson has moved up two slots to 14th with figures of 3/60, as the pair helped dismiss Pakistan for 236 in their only innings of the match which ended in a draw at Southampton.
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Abbas took 2/28 in England’s score of 110/4 declared, gaining two places to reach eighth position, but is still away from his career-best ranking of third in October 2018.
Pakistan batsman Babar Azam is back at a career-best fifth position, which he had attained in February 2020. His knock of 47 helped him gain one place while his compatriots Abid Ali (up to 49th) and Mohammad Rizwan (up to 75th) have also attained career-best rankings after knocking up half-centuries.
For England, Zak Crawley has moved to a career-best 81st place after a score of 53, even as all-rounder Ben Stokes and captain Joe Root have retained their seventh and ninth positions, respectively.
In the ICC World Test Championship points table, the list is led by India with 360 points and Australia are second at 296.England remain in third position with 279 points while Pakistan are fifth with 153.
