Joe Root reclaims No.1 rank in ICC Test rankings

England No.4 batter Joe Root has reclaimed his pole position in the newly updated ICC Men’s Test Rankings after being displaced by his colleague Harry Brook after the second Test in Birmingham.

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Notably, Root smacked an exceptional 104-run knock in the first innings and scored 40 runs in the second innings as England defeated India by 22 runs to go 2-1 up in the five-match series. On the other hand, Brook made scores of 11 and 23 in the third Test, slipping down to the third rank with Kane Williamson moving up to the second rank.

Moreover, the newly appointed Test captain Shubman Gill, who had an unimpressive Lord’s Test, slid from No.6 to No.9 with Rishabh Pant also slipping one spot to the eighth rank despite scoring 74 runs in the first innings.

With scores of 100 and 39, KL Rahul moved five spots up at the 35th rank while the Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who scored fifties in both innings of the Lord’s Test, went up to the 34th rank.

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Moving further, Australia’s No.4 batter Steve Smith moved ahead of Yashasvi Jaiswal to the fourth rank in the rankings after the former scored 48 runs in the first innings of the pink ball Test. Meanwhile, Jaiswal had poor returns of 13 and 0 at Lord’s.

Additionally, in the newly updated bowling rankings, Indian pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah continues to stay at the top of the bowling rankings after his 13th fifer away from home. Scott Boland, who scalped six wickets, including a hat-trick against the West Indies, moved six places to the sixth rank.

Moreover, the Australian star pacer Mitchell Starc, who pocketed the figures of 6/9 in the second innings of the pink ball Test against West Indies, stood at No. 10. However, he gained two spots in the all-rounders rankings, which is still dominated by Jadeja.

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