Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja’s excellent run within the recently-concluded away sequence towards Pakistan has seen him leapfrog batting stalwarts akin to David Warner, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Rohit Sharma and Travis Head to leap six spots to No.7 within the newest ICC Test Rankings for batters launched on Wednesday.
India’s Rohit Sharma and Kohli have dropped one place to eighth and tenth respectively, whereas Pant is out of the top-10 and is eleventh within the newest rankings checklist.
Khawaja was simply the standout batter within the three-match Test sequence towards Pakistan, having aggregated 496 runs from 5 innings at a mindboggling 165.33. His scores within the sequence learn 97, 160, 44 not out, 91 and 104 not out — the final two coming in Australia’s series-clinching 115-run win within the third Test at Lahore. That was after he had begun the yr with twin a whole lot within the New Year’s drawn Ashes Test in Sydney, which occurred to be his comeback to the format after greater than two years.
Pakistan’s Abdullah Shafique, who completed because the second-highest run-scorer within the sequence with 397 runs at 79.40, has jumped 22 spots to interrupt into the top-40, whereas Mohammad Rizwan has slipped eight spots to No. 19.
England skipper Joe Root has slipped to No.4, with Australia’s Steve Smith and New Zealand’s Kane Williamson taking over the No. 2 and three positions respectively in a chart led by Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne.
Among all-rounders, India’s Ravindra Jadeja continues to retain the highest place, whereas Ravichandran Ashwin has displaced West Indies’ Jason Holder on the No.2 spot. West Indies all-rounder Kyle Mayers brilliance towards England within the third Test at Grenada has helped him leap a staggering 29 spots to No. 11.
Among bowlers, Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah are positioned second and fourth respectively in a discipline led by Aussie Test skipper Pat Cummins. Mayers, who bagged 2/13 and 5/18 within the third Test, his solely look within the sequence, has jumped 33 spots to No.48 amongst bowlers as effectively. Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi has displaced New Zealand’s Kyle Jamieson to assert the fifth spot, whereas Australian tempo bowler Mitchell Starc has jumped 4 spots to No.11.
In truth, Cummins has additional consolidated his standing because the top-ranked Test bowler, after having bagged 12 wickets from three Tests, together with a game-changing five-for within the third.
In ODIs, Adam Zampa jumped six positions to interrupt into high 10 within the newest ICC ODI Rankings for bowlers. Zampa returned 4/38 in Australia’s 88-run win over Pakistan on March 29. Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan jumped 4 spots to No. 8, whereas fellow countryman Taskin Ahmed jumped up 15 spots to No.33, with the latter having returned 5/35 in Bangladesh’s dominant nine-wicket win over South Africa final week. South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada in the meantime, has slipped from No.8 to No. 13.
Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal has jumped to No.20 within the batting rankings, whereas South Africa’s Quinton de Kock has slipped a spot to fifth, being overtaken by Rohit Sharma. Pakistan’s Imam-ul-Haq’s gallant hundred on Tuesday has helped him return to the highest 10.
Babar Azam, Trent Boult and Shakib proceed to high the batting, bowling and the all-rounders’ charts respectively.
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