Following the Boxing Day Tests and the New Year’s cricketing extravaganza, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has updated the Test rankings. Jasprit Bumrah sits atop after an impressive outing against Australia while Pat Cummins and Scott Boland constitute one-fifth of the top ten charts.
Following an action-packed season of Test series with the Border Gavaskar Trophy and Pakistan’s tour of South Africa, the ICC have updated the Test rankings. Jasprit Bumrah holds the number one rank after 32 scalps with an outstanding bowling average of 13.06 in the BGT. He gained a point with the ratings rising to 908.
While Josh Hazlewood has fallen out of the top three after being sidelined due to injury, Pat Cummins and Kagiso Rabada gained a point each to occupy the second and third positions respectively. Scott Boland gained 29 points to jump to the joint ninth position with Ravindra Jadeja (gained one point) after 21 wickets at a bowling average of 13.19 in the recently concluded BGT.
In the batting realm, Temba Bavuma gained three points to sit sixth in the rankings after a scintillating century in Cape Town against Pakistan. While Steve Smith incurred a loss in points, Rishabh Pant and Babar Azam gained three and five points to cement the ninth and the twelfth spot in the batting charts respectively.
