Bumrah back at No. 1 in Test bowling rankings

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India’s spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is back on top of the pile  •  BCCI

Jasprit Bumrah is the new No. 1 Test bowler in the world, following his match haul of six against Bangladesh in Kanpur. He replaces his India team-mate R Ashwin – the Player of the Series against Bangladesh – at the top of the rankings. India also have a big mover on the Test batting rankings, with Player of the Match from the Kanpur Test, Yashasvi Jaiswal, moving to third after just 11 Tests.

Sri Lanka left-arm spinner Prabath Jayasuriya, the Player of the Series in his side’s 2-0 sweep of New Zealand in Galle, also moved up among bowlers, to joint-seventh after just 16 Tests.

Among other significant moves on the Test rankings, India’s Virat Kohli is back in the top 10 among batters, moving up six places to sixth after his 47 and 29 not out in Kanpur, Sri Lanka’s eight-Test-old Kamindu Mendis is up to No. 11 following his unbeaten 182 in the second Test in Galle, and Bangladesh’s Mehidy Hasan Miraz is up to fifth among allrounders – that makes it two Bangladeshis in the top five, with his illustrious team-mate Shakib Al Hasan holding his spot at No. 3.

This is Bumrah’s second stint at the top of the Test table. He had moved up to No. 1 in February this year, becoming the first ever India fast bowler to top the Test rankings. Before Bumrah, the highest ever ranked Indian pace bowler was Kapil Dev, who got as far as No. 2 in 1979-80 in the ICC’s retrospective rankings. In February too, Bumrah had displaced Ashwin at the top.

Now, Ashwin, on 869 rating points, remains a single point behind Bumrah.