ICC Test Player Rankings: ICC recently came up with an update on the ICC Test Player Rankings and after the completion of the South Africa Tour of West Indies for two test, we are here with the fully updated ICC Test Player Rankings. This post reads the latest Updated ICC Test Batting Rankings, Test Bowling Rankings, and Test All-rounders Rankings.
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The South Africa-West Indies Test series ended with an amazing second test where South Africa won and stole the series away from the home team. The Player of the match Wiaan Mulder proved to be the key player for the Proteas, both with the bat and the ball.
Marco Jansen was not in the test side for the West Indies tour but Mulder never let the team miss him. He took 6 wickets in the match. South Africa won the match by 40 runs at the end.
If we look at the latest update in the Test players, surprisingly, only two South Indian players are ranked in top 10 of all three categories and none in the Batting rankings. Let’s take a look at the ICC Test Player Rankings.
ICC Test Player Rankings
ICC Test Batting Rankings (1-10 Ranks)
Joe Root of England is right at the top of the ICC Test batting rankings. He has a good lead of 14 rating points to Kane Williamson of New Zealand. Babar Azam of Pakistan is ranked third with 768 rating points and he is sharing that spot with Daryl Mitchell of New Zealand.
Rohit Sharma(6th), Yashasvi Jaiswal (8th) and Virat Kohli(10th) are the three Indian players in the list. None of the Proteas batters or West Indies’ Batter is on the top 10 batting rankings.
Pos | Players | Team | Rating |
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01 | Joe ROOT | ENGLAND | 872 |
02 | Kane WILLIAMSON | NEW ZEALAND | 859 |
03 | Babar AZAM | PAKISTAN | 768 |
03 | Daryl MITCHELL | NEW ZEALAND | 768 |
05 | Steven SMITH | AUSTRALIA | 757 |
06 | Rohit SHARMA | INDIA | 751 |
07 | Harry BROOK | ENGLAND | 749 |
08 | Yashasvi JAISWAL | INDIA | 740 |
09 | Dimuth KARUNARATNE | SRI LANKA | 739 |
10 | Virat KOHLI | INDIA | 737 |
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ICC Test Bowling Rankings (1-10 Ranks)
Indian bowlers are ruling in the bowling rankings as the two Indian bowlers are enjoying the top two ranks of the Standings. Ravi Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah are at the top two positions of Test bowling rankings. Jasprit Bumrah share the second spot with Josh Hazlewood of Australia at 847 ratings.
Kagiso Rabada of South Africa is ranked 4th with 830 rating points. Pat Cummins and Nathon Lyon are 5th and 6th ranked and this shows up the why Australia are the defending Test Champions. Ravindra Jadeja is raked 7th in the test and India are set to play a couple of home test series and he will play a crucial role in the system.
Pos | Players | Team | Rating |
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01 | Ravichandran ASHWIN | INDIA | 870 |
02 | Josh HAZLEWOOD | AUSTRALIA | 847 |
02 | Jasprit BUMRAH | INDIA | 847 |
04 | Kagiso RABADA | SOUTH AFRICA | 830 |
05 | Pat CUMMINS | AUSTRALIA | 820 |
06 | Nathan LYON | AUSTRALIA | 801 |
07 | Ravindra JADEJA | INDIA | 788 |
08 | Shaheen AFRIDI | PAKISTAN | 733 |
09 | Kyle JAMIESON | PR NEW ZEALAND | 729 |
10 | Prabath JAYASURIYA | SRI LANKA | 724 |
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ICC Test All-Rounder Rankings (1-10 Ranks)
The 7th ranked bowler is number one ranked all-rounder in test. Ravindra Jadeja and Ravi Ashwin are leading the standings of Test All-rounders. Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh is ranked third with 310 ratings.
POS | Team | Player | Rating | |
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01 | INDIA | Ravindra JADEJA | 444 | |
02 | INDIA | Ravichandran ASHWIN | 322 | |
03 | BANGLADESH | Shakib AL HASAN | 310 | |
04 | ENGLAND | Joe Root | 284 | |
05 | INDIA | Axar PATEL | 269 | |
06 | ENGLAND | Ben STOKES | 266 | |
07 | WEST INDIES | Jason HOLDER | 264 | |
08 | AUSTRALIA | Pat CUMMINS | 245 | |
09 | ENGLAND | Chris WOAKES | 237 | |
10 | SOUTH AFRICA | Marco JANSEN | 230 |
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