The Indian pacer, Mohammed Shami and opener Mayank Agarwal achieved their career-best positions in the latest ICC Test Rankings after contributing to India’s innings and 130-run win over Bangladesh in the first Test in Indore. Shami’s bowling figures of 3 for 27 and 4 for 31 help him to climb eight places to the seventh
His 790 rating points are the third-best for an India pace bowler with only Kapil Dev (877) and Jasprit Bumrah (832) having recorded more points. Double centurion Agarwal, meanwhile, climbed to the 11th position after receiving the player-of-the-match effort of 243 in India’s only innings.
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Mayank has reached 691 rating points after scoring 858 runs in his first eight Test matches. Only seven batsmen have scored more runs than Agarwal in their first eight Tests — Don Bradman (1210), Everton Weekes (968), Sunil Gavaskar (938), Mark Taylor (906), George Headley (904), Frank Worrell (890) and Herbert Sutcliffe (872).
In other significant changes for India, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja jumped four slots to reach the joint-35th position among batsmen while pacers Ishant Sharma (20th) and Umesh Yadav (22nd) have moved up one place each.
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is in the top 10 bowlers list, while moving back to the fourth position among all-rounders. For Bangladesh, Mushfiqur Rahim has gained five positions and reach 30th position while Liton Das has moved up from 92nd to 86th position. Among bowlers, fast bowler Abu Jayed, who scalped four wickets in Indore, has taken the leap of 18 positions to take 62nd position after only six Tests.
Meanwhile, India strengthened their position in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) standings by reaching 300 points. Sri Lanka and New Zealand are on 60 points each after drawing their two-match series 1-1 while England and Australia are on 56 each after their five-match Ashes series ended 2-2.
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The West Indies and South Africa failed to get any points in their opening series. Pakistan will play its first WTC series against Australia starting later this week. The first match of the two-Test series will commencing in Brisbane on Thursday while the second Test, a day-night fixture, will be played in Adelaide from November 29.
