Virat Kohli regains the top spot in ICC Test rankings

Virat Kohli's effort of 97 and 103 in the third Test against England lifted him to the 11th best ever in terms of rating points.

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India captain Virat Kohli. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

India captain Virat Kohli’s effort of 97 and 103 in the third Test against England lifted him to the 11th best ever in terms of rating points. India captain Virat Kohli has reached a personal best of 937 rating points while reclaiming the top position in the ICC Test Player Rankings after the Trent Bridge Test.

The 29-year-old’s player of the match effort of 97 and 103 not only helped his team reduce the deficit in the five-match series to 2-1 after winning the third Test by 203 runs but has also lifted him to the 11th best ever in terms of rating points.

Kohli, who claimed the top spot for the first time after the opening Test in Birmingham but dropped to second after the Lord’s Test, is now only one point behind a group of four in the all-time list and with a good chance of going past them on current form that has seen him score 440 runs in the series.

The top 10 in the list are Don Bradman (961 points), Steven Smith (947), Len Hutton (945), Jack Hobbs (942), Ricky Ponting (942), Peter May (941), Gary Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Vivian Richards and Sangakkara (all 938 points).

Cheteshwar Pujara remains the second highest ranked India batsman in the list, in the sixth position, while Ajinkya Rahane (up four places to 19th), Shikhar Dhawan (up four places to 22nd) and all-rounder Hardik Pandya (up eight places to 51st) have moved up after useful contributions at Trent Bridge.

Pandya has also reached the 51st spot in the bowlers’ rankings, gaining 23 slots to reach his career-best position after a crucial five-wicket haul in the first innings. His fellow fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah’s five-wicket haul in England’s second innings has also lifted him to a career-best 37th position after a gain of eight places.

For England, Jos Buttler’s valiant 106 in the second innings has lifted him 22 places to 47thposition. Another significant gainer for England in the batsmen’s rankings is Adil Rashid, whose unbeaten 33 in the second innings has seen him gain eight slots to reach 116th position.

Rashid has also gained four slots to reach 47th position among bowlers after grabbing four wickets in the match, while Chris Woakes has inched up one place to 31st position after also finishing with four wickets in the third Test.

ICC Test Player Rankings (as on 23 August, following the Trent Bridge Test):

Rank(+/-)PlayerTeamPointsAvge
1(+1)Virat KohliInd937!54.49
2(-1)Steve SmithAus92961.37
3(+1)Kane WilliamsonNZ84750.35
4(+1)David WarnerAus82048.2
5(-2)Joe RootEng81851.27
6( – )C. PujaraInd76349.3
7( – )D. KarunaratneSL754!37.28
8( – )D. ChandimalSL73344.96
9(+1)Dean ElgarSA72441.05
10(+1)Aiden MarkramSA703*47.27
  11=(+1)Ross TaylorNZ69747.22
(-2)Jonny BairstowEng69738.55
13( – )Kraigg BrathwaiteWin69537.94
14( – )Hashim AmlaSA67347.23
15( – )Azhar AliPak67244.84
16( – )Faf du PlessisSA66542.33
  17=( – )Alastair CookEng64145.11
(+1)Kusal MendisSL64136.78
19(+4)Ajinkya RahaneInd63641.79
20(-1)Usman KhawajaAus63342

Bowlers (top 20)

Rank(+/-)PlayerTeamPointsAvge
1( – )James AndersonEng89926.85
2( – )Kagiso RabadaSA88221.71
3( – )Ravindra JadejaInd84023.11
4( – )Vernon PhilanderSA82621.54
5(+1)Pat CumminsAus800*!23.81
6(+1)Trent BoultNZ79527.84
7(-2)R. AshwinInd79225.45
8( – )Rangana HerathSL79127.95
9( – )Neil WagnerNZ76528.26
10( – )Josh HazlewoodAus75926.84
11( – )Shannon GabrielWin757!29.57
12( – )Stuart BroadEng73428.91
13( – )Jason HolderWin731*!29.35
  14=( – )Tim SoutheeNZ72030.82
( – )Mitchell StarcAus72028.17
16( – )Nathan LyonAus71032.21
17( – )Keshav MaharajSA692*27.65
18( – )Yasir ShahPak68329.44
19(+1)Kemar RoachWin66728.31
20(+1)Shakib Al HasanBan66531.87

All-rounders (top 5)

Rank(+/-)PlayerTeamPoints
1( – )Shakib Al HasanBan420
   2=(+2)Vernon PhilanderSA370
( – )Ravindra JadejaInd370
4(-1)R. AshwinInd367
5( – )Jason HolderWin354/*

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