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Virat Kohli Loses His No.1 Position In ICC Test Rankings
By CricShots - Feb 26, 2020 3:51 pm
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The latest ICC Test rankings for the batsmen and bowlers have witnessed some significant changes after Virat Kohli and his men’s huge 10-wicket loss to New Zealand at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. The visiting team failed to handle the movement and swing produced by the Kiwi pacers and could only manage 165 and 191 runs on the board in their two innings.

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Kyle Jamieson dismissed Virat Kohli in Wellington

Meanwhile, the Indian bowlers and some dull captaincy from Virat Kohli let the home team off the hook as the last three wickets added more than 120 runs to take the team to 348. This was enough for them to earn an enormous victory and hand India their first loss in the ICC World Test Championship.

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This also resulted in Indian fast bowler, Jasprit Bumrah has also dropped out of the top 10 ICC Test bowling rankings, as he scalped just one wicket in the Wellington Test. Apart from Bumrah, a big change was the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli losing his no.1 position in the ICC Test batting rankings after scoring 2 and 19 runs in the two innings at Basin Reserve.

Here are the latest ICC Test rankings:

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ICC Test Rankings

Kohli has not been able to register a three-figure mark in international cricket in the last 20 innings and that has affected his ranking points a lot. He now has 906 points at the second position, while Steve Smith climbed to the top spot with 911 points to his name.

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In the top 10 bowling rankings, the only Indian bowler is Ravichandran Ashwin, who is standing at the 9th position with 765 points to his name. Bumrah is at the no.11 position. Ashwin is also at no.5 spot in Test all-rounder’s rankings, with Ravindra Jadeja at no.3 position. However, there is good news for the Indian fans when it comes to Test batting rankings, which was updated recently.

The Indian opener, Mayank Agarwal has made his presence in the top 10 of the Test batting rankings with 727 points to his name. This happened due to his brilliant and fighting half-century in India’s second innings against New Zealand. Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara are the other Indian batsmen in the top 10 rankings at no.8 and no.9 spot respectively.