Dubai: India captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday jumped one place to second in the ICC Test ranking for batsmen. The ICC ranking list also has Chesteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane at the seventh and 10th positions respectively. Virat Kohli is the leading Indian batsman in the chart with 886 rating points behind Australia’s Steve Smith (911 points).
New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson dropped a rung to the third spot. He is followed by young Australian batting sensation Marnus Labuschagne, Pakistan’s Babar Azam and the injured David Warner.
Pujara is seventh in the chart with 766 points. He is followed by Ben Stokes (760), Joe Root (738) and India Test vice-captain Rahane (726) to complete the top-10 list.
Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah (779) and veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (756) are the two Indians to find a place in the ICC Test rankings for bowlers at eighth and 10th spots respectively.
The list is being headed by Australia’s Pat Cummins (904), followed by England’s Stuart Broad and New Zealand’s Neil Wagner.
Two other Indians – Ravindra Jadeja and Ashwin feature in the top-10 list for ICC Test rankings for all-rounders. Stokes sits on top of the all-rounder’s list. Jadeja (397) is third while Ashwin (281) is sixth on the list.
In the ICC Test rankings for teams, India are currently placed third. New Zealand jumped to the second spot following their recent 2-0 series win over the West Indies.
India has 114 rating points, two points behind New Zealand and table-toppers Australia. They both have 116 points but the Aussies are ahead on decimal points. England is placed fourth ahead of Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.