ICC Rankings
Ishan Kishan enters top10, jumps 68 spots to be
placed seventh
India opener Ishan Kishan climbed up
68 places to grab the seventh spot among batters, while
the bowling duo of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Yuzvendra
Chahal also made gains in the latest ICC T20 rankings
released on Wednesday.Kishan,who has been one of
India’s consistent performers in the ongoing T20I home
series against South Africa, aggregating 164 runs in three
matches including two half-centuries, has made a massive jump to enter the top 10 among T20 batters.The 23-
year-old is the lone
Indian batter in the
top 10 with KL
Rahul occupying
the 14 spot.Skipper
Rohit Sharma and
Shreyas Iyer have
dropped a place
each to 16th and
17th spots respectively, while Virat Kohli has slid two places to
21st.Australia’s Josh Hazlewood has regained his number
one spot among T20 bowlers, while Maheesh Theekshana
of Sri Lanka is up 16 places to eighth in the list.In the Test
rankings, pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah has moved a
spot to third, behind compatriot Ravichandran Ashwin,
who remains static on number two.Ravindra Jadeja and
Ashwin, however, continue to occupy the top two spots
in the all rounders’ list.Rohit and Kohli retained their seventh and 10 spots respectively among batters while
England’s Joe Root is back at the top after smashing a
second successive century in the ongoing ICC World Test
Championship series against New Zealand.Root, who had
reached within striking distance of Marnus Labuschagne
after the first Test, has wrested back the top spot from the
Australia batter, whom he now leads by five rating
points.Root is on 897 points after his knock of 176 in the
first innings of the Nottingham Test, 20 less than his highest of 917 points.Root first grabbed the number one position in August 2015 and was last at the top in December
2021 before Labuschagne leapfrogged him. He has been No.1 in Tests for 163 days so far.
