In recent times, the young Indian wicket-keeper batsman, Rishabh Pant has witnessed an exponential rise in the ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings and he is now at a career-best seventh position after smashing a match-winning 101 in the fourth Test against England in Ahmedabad. Pant has taken a leap of seven slots and shares seventh place with compatriot Rohit Sharma, who has inched up one spot, and Henry Nicholls of New Zealand.
Pant’s 747 rating points are the joint-15th highest by any India batsman, and the highest by a full-time Indian Test wicketkeeper. Washington Sundar, who also played a crucial role in India’s passage to the final of the ICC World Test Championship, has gained 39 places and is in 62nd position, owing to his unbeaten knock of 96 not out.
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The Indian skipper, Virat Kohli is at his lowest points tally since November 2017 while Cheteshwar Pujara is under 700 rating points for the first time since September 2016. There was no surprise that the spinners have witnessed significant rise Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel, who ripped through the England innings time and again during the series.
Ashwin has leapfrogged New Zealand’s Neil Wagner to the second position among bowlers, the first time since August 2017, after finishing with eight wickets in the match. He is also ranked fourth among all-rounders, surpassing Shakib Al Hasan. Patel’s nine wickets have lifted him eight places to 30th with 552 rating points.
For England, Dan Lawrence has moved up 47 places to 93rd among batsmen with scores of 46 and 50 and James Anderson has leapfrogged a couple of places to fourth position after his haul of three for 44 in Ahmedabad.
The West Indies-Sri Lanka series, won 2-1 by hosts West Indies, saw Kieron Pollard, who smashed 6 sixes off an over from Akil Dananjaya in the first match, move up four places to 53rd while Fabien Allen has moved up 44 places to 42nd.
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For Sri Lanka, Danushka Gunathilaka (up 15 places to 55th) among batsmen and Lakshan Sandakan (up nine places to 10th) have made notable gains.
