- Bumrah left Rabada behind
- Yashasvi is second in batting, Kohli also gained nine places
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Dubai. Team India’s star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has once again reached the top position in the latest ICC Test Rankings. Bumrah recently performed brilliantly in the first Test match played against Australia in Perth and took a total of eight wickets. Bumrah overtook South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada to rise to the top spot in the Test bowlers’ rankings for the second time in a calendar year. Previously, Bumrah was ranked third in the bowler rankings after Rabada and Josh Hazlewood.
Rabada, who was leading South Africa’s fast bowling against Sri Lanka, dropped to second place. Despite taking five wickets in the first Test match against India, Australia fast bowler Josh Hazlewood is ranked third. Yashasvi Jaiswal, who contributed significantly to India’s 295-run victory over Australia, also jumped up the rankings. The ranking of successful hitters has improved two places to second place. Currently, England’s Joe Root is ahead of them. Yashasvi’s rating point is 825, which is the best rating of her career. Yashasvi had played an innings of 161 runs in the second innings of the first Test against Australia. At the same time, star Indian batsman Virat Kohli, who played an unbeaten century in the Perth Test, also moved up nine places to reach the 13th position. Kohli had scored an unbeaten 100 runs in the second innings of the first Test match against Australia.
Urvil left Pant behind and scored the fastest T20 century.
Indore. Gujarat’s wicketkeeper batsman Urvil Patel played a good innings against Tripura in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and broke Rishabh Pant’s record. Urvil scored a century in just 28 balls and became the fastest Indian batsman to score a century in the T20 format. Before Urvil, this record was in the name of Pant, who had scored a century off 32 balls against Himachal Pradesh in the same tournament in 2018. Urvil hit 12 sixes and seven fours in his innings. With this, Urvil has become the second batsman in the world to score the fastest century in T20 cricket. Ahead of him is only Estonia’s Sahil Chauhan, who scored a century off 27 balls against Cyprus.
