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Kagiso Rabada rockets to third spot among Test bowlers
By Aditya Pratap - Oct 11, 2017 12:47 pm
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South African sensation Kagiso Rabada has jumped to a career-best third position in the bowler’ rankings of Test cricket after a ruthless bowling display against visiting Bangladesh. He registered his five-wicket hauls in both innings, which led him to take his third 10-for of career.

Thus, Indian spin maestro Ravichandran Ashwin slipped one place to fourth, while Sri Lanka’s old horse Rangana Herath is placed fifth in the latest rankings released by ICC on Wednesday. Meanwhile, James Anderson maintained his top-spot before the Ashes. Now, Anderson will go in Ashes as the number 1 bowler, unless second-placed Ravindra Jadeja pull-off any miracle in the lone Test before the first Ashes game in Brisbane from November 23.

While, In Test batting chart, top-five is unchanged where Smith, Root, Williamson, Pujara, and Warner are placed respectively. Virat Kohli has ranked sixth just ahead of seventh-place Hashim Amla. Four Indians are featuring in the top-10 as KL Rahul and Ajinkya Rahane are other two batsmen in this list placed eighth and ninth.

In the team rankings, India is leading the chart and only change came with a 2-0 result in favor of Sri Lanka, who displaced Pakistan from the sixth rank. Pakistan faced this humiliating whitewash and slipped to the seventh position after being top-ranked in 2016 for a brief period.