Jasprit Bumrah, ICC Rankings: The International Cricket Council (ICC) released the latest men’s Test player rankings on Wednesday (October 30). In this, Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has suffered a major blow. South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada has reached the top of the bowling rankings by defeating Bumrah.
Right-handed bowler Rabada, who has been in great form during the ongoing World Test Championship (WTC), recently completed his 300 wickets in this format by taking 9 wickets in the first Test against Bangladesh at Mirpur. South Africa won this match played in Mirpur by 9 wickets.
Bumrah lost two places
Bumrah failed to take a single wicket in the second Test match played against New Zealand in Pune. It has dropped two places to third position. Australia’s Josh Hazlewood takes second place. Experienced Indian player Ravichandran Ashwin has also fallen to the fourth position with a loss of two places. Australian captain Pat Cummins is also included in the top five players.
Pakistan spinner Noman Ali, who bowled brilliantly in the third and final Test against England in Rawalpindi recently, is the new member of the top 10. Mitchell Santner, who emerged as New Zealand’s hero during the historic series win over India has moved up to 30th place in its improvement ranking. This left-arm spinner, who took 13 wickets in the Pune Test, reached 44th position in the rankings.
Kohli and Pant also suffered losses in the rankings.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has also benefited in the batsmen’s order. Yashasvi, who contributed 30 and 77 runs against New Zealand in Pune, moved up one place to third position. He remains India’s highest-ranked batsman in this format.
The batting ratings of explosive batsmen Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli have declined. Both have suffered damage to the bumpers. Pant has dropped 5 places to reach 11th position. While Kohli has dropped 6 places to 14th position.
These players made excellent profits
Devon Conway of New Zealand (up 8 places to 28th), Tom Latham (up 6 places to 34th) and Glenn Phillips (up 16 places to 45th) and Kyle Verreynne of South Africa (up 14 places to 32nd) have achieved significant advances in this ranking. .
In the list of Test all-rounders, Indians Ravindra Jadeja (number one) and Ashwin (number two) are busy. Both have made good progress in the rankings. Bangladesh star Mehdi Hasan has gained two places to reach third place. He had performed brilliantly with bat and ball against South Africa.
