After the Test match in Chennai, Rishabh Pant has returned to the top of the ICC Test batting rankings at No. 6, with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Prabath Jayasuriya being the other major movers up that table. Rohit Sharma has fallen after his consecutive failures in the Chennai test. Afghanistan’s white-ball heroes, meanwhile, have climbed up rather drastically on the ODI tables, with Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rashid Khan making waves. Travis Head has also ascended the ranks. Rishabh Pant on his return to Test cricket, scored 39 and 109 against Bangladesh.
After almost two years, Pant returned to Test cricket for the first time after the car crash that almost ended his career. He scored 39 and 109 (off just 128 balls) as India defeated Bangladesh by 280 runs to win the first Test in Chennai. With 731 rating points, that catapulted Pant back into sixth position. Jaiswal, who had been ranked sixth before the most recent update, shot up to fifth position with a seventy-six-point total from his 56 in India’s opening innings.
With 899 points, Joe Root leads the discipline, followed by Kane Williamson (852 points), who scored 55 and 30 in New Zealand’s 63-run defeat in the first Test in Galle. Above Jaiswal, Daryl Mitchell (760 points) and Steven Smith (757 points) maintained their positions.
But Rohit dropped quite a bit, from No. 5 to No. 10, barely four rating points above Babar Azam at No. 11, after returning 6 and 5 in Chennai while falling victim to pace in both innings. After scoring 6 and 17, Virat Kohli also dropped five spots to No. 12, and Shubman Gill, who scored 119 not out in the second innings, moved up to No. 14.
Jayasuriya was the major shifter in the bowling rankings after winning Player-of-the-Match in Galle with figures of 4 for 136 and 5 for 68. Jayasuriya rose five spots to the eighth spot.
That ranking is dominated by Indians and Australians. In Chennai, R Ashwin (0 for 29 and 6 for 88) is ranked first, followed at No. 2 by Jasprit Bumrah (4 for 50 and 1 for 24). Following Bumrah are Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Kagiso Rabada. In sixth place is another Indian, Ravindra Jadeja (2 for 19 and 3 for 58), followed by Nathan Lyon at No. 7.
