Highlight
- Joe Root is ranked as the No. 1 Test batsman
- New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has dropped one place to number six
Rishabh Pant’s love affair with red ball cricket is something that has thrown many cricket fans and cricket pundits into frenzy. His trademark of hitting sixes with one hand while doing so is something that has become his trademark and is unanimously associated with him.
In the recently concluded 5th Test against England, players like James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Matthew Potts put India in all sorts of trouble in the first innings. After his heroics in the great Gabba Test match played in January 2021, Rishabh Pant churned out one of the finest innings played by any Indian wicketkeeper-batsman at Edgbaston. Pant played a blistering innings of 146 runs and shared a partnership of over 222 runs. Ravindra Jadeja other side. He later backed it up with a half-century in the second innings, but unfortunately, he did not get much support from the other end.
Taking advantage of the result of his performance, Pant achieved a career-best fifth position in the latest ICC Test rankings announced on Wednesday. In the process, Rishabh Pant has surpassed the former India captain Virat Kohli who dropped out of the top 10 for the first time since 2016. The ICC has rewarded Pant in his last six Test innings courtesy his two tons and three half-centuries. current Indian captain Rohit Sharma He dropped one spot after missing the crucial Edgbaston Test after being infected with COVID-19.
Not only Pant, English talisman Jonny Bairstow also made notable gains in the ICC Test rankings courtesy of four consecutive tons (2 against New Zealand and 2 against India). Bairstow has moved up 11 places with 923 points and is now comfortably ranked 10th in the ICC Test rankings.
Bairstow has so far scored 1218 runs at an average of 55 with six centuries in the ongoing ICC World Test Championship cycle.
(Inputs from PTI)