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ICC Test ranking News
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England batter Joe Root is the No. 1 batter in the ICC Test ranking after his century in the 1st Ashes Test against Australia.
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Rishabh Pant, who scored 146 and 57 in the match, is now the highest ranked batter from India after gaining six slots to reach a career-best fifth position.
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Joe Root first grabbed number one position in August 2015 and was last at the top in December 2021 before Marnus Labuschagne leapfrogged him.
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The couple of poor outings in the Boxing Day Test means that Virat Kohli slipped a couple of places in the ICC Test batsman rankings to 9th spot with Pakistan skipper Babar Azam and Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne climbing a place each.
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Washington entered the rankings in 82nd (batting) and 97th (bowling) positions, while Thakur re-entered the batting list in 113th position and bowling list in 65th position. Australia captain Tim Paine moved up three spots to 42nd after scores of 50 and 27 while fast bowler Josh Hazlewood leapfrogged New Zealand's Tim Southee to the fourth spot after grabbing six wickets in the match, including a haul of five for 57 in the first innings.
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Stokes ended Jason Holder’s 18-month reign at the top.
He had knocks of 176 and 78 runs, along with a match haul of three wickets against West Indies in the second Test.
Stokes' 497 rating points is highest by any Test all-rounder since Jacques Kallis' 517 in April 2008.
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Kohli is currently 26 points behind Steve Smith of Australia but is 48 points ahead of third-ranked Joe Root of England.
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After holding Sri Lanka 1-1 in the recently-concluded three-match Test rubber, the West Indies are all geared up to host Bangladesh in a two-match Test series, starting in North Sound on Wednesday.
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Reduced to 91/5, the home team was rescued by Rohit and Saha, who had scored an unbeaten half-century in the first innings as well.
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Rahane was the lone Indian in the top-10 of batting charts but among the bowlers, Ravindra Jadeja was there at 8th to give Ashwin company in the top-10.
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Away from these permutations and combinations, India look set in their plans for the fourth Test against West Indies.
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