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Pant reaches career-best position in ICC Test rankings, Ashwin moves to 2nd

Following his breathtaking century in the fourth Test against England, young Indian wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant on Wednesday achieved a career-best seventh position in the ICC Test rankings.

Pant rises to 11th, Ashwin jumps 14 places in Test batting rankings

Ashwin remains seventh in the bowlers' rankings but he has gained 33 rating points to reach within three points of sixth-ranked Stuart Broad and to within 21 of second-ranked Neil Wagner

ICC Test Rankings: Kohli slips down to fifth spot; Root moves up to third

India skipper Virat Kohli was pushed to the fifth spot by his English counterpart Joe Root, who rose two rungs to third in the latest ICC Test rankings for batsmen

Historic win at The Gabba takes India to second place in ICC test rankings

India won the fourth and final test against Australia

Kohli loses 2nd spot to Smith in Test rankings, Pujara moves up to 8th

Virat Kohli was pushed to the third spot by Australian batsman Steve Smith in the ICC Test rankings for batsmen but middle-order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara gained two places to be number eight

ICC rankings: New Zealand attains top spot in Test cricket for the 1st time

Overall, New Zealand is the seventh side in the world to hold the number one spot

Virat Kohli closes gap on Steve Smith at top of ICC Test rankings

India may have suffered an embarrassing defeat in the series-opener against Australia but its skipper Virat Kohli fractionally closed the gap with top-ranked Test batsman Steve Smith

ICC Test rankings: Virat Kohli moves to second spot, Rahane enters top 10

Ace Indian cricketers Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah have moved up by a spot in their respective ICC players rankings in Test cricket

ICC Test rankings: AUS edge out NZ at number one spot on decimal points

International Cricket Council clarified that Australia are still at the top of Test rankings and the Tim Paine-led side is ahead of New Zealand on decimal points

Current Indian Test team under Kohli India's best ever: Sunil Gavaskar

Under Kohli, India reached the top of ICC Test rankings and the team is currently at number one spot in the World Test Championship standings

Eng vs Pak: Azhar Ali, Babar Azam aim to make progress in ICC Test rankings

Babar Azam is currently sixth after having occupied a career-high fifth place in February

ICC ODI Rankings: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma maintain top two spots

Jasprit Bumrah stayed put in second place among bowlers

Ben Stokes replaces Holder at the top spot in ICC Test all-rounder rankings

After a century and quick fifty in the second test, Stokes also attained a career-best third position among batsmen in the ICC Test Player Rankings

ICC Test rankings: Jason Holder moves up to second spot in bowlers list

Holder, who picked 7 wickets including a haul of 6 for 42 in 1st innings, is now on a career-best 862 rating points, the best for any Windies bowler since Courtney Walsh's tally of 866 in August 2000

Sri Lanka skipper Karunaratne aims to reach top-four in ODI, Test cricket

Sri Lanka is currently at the eighth spot in the ODI rankings, but the side whitewashed West Indies in the three-match ODI series earlier this year.

Earned Australia's respect back: Langer on his side becoming No 1 in Tests

Australia dethroned India from the top spot in Tests and now the Men in Blue are in the third place

ICC Test rankings: India cedes top spot for first time since October 2016

India cricket team lost the top spot in the ICC Test rankings to Australia, dropping to third after its stupendous 2016-17 record was eliminated from the annual update as per rules

ICC Test rankings: India retains top spot, Bumrah in top 10 bowlers list

India have 116 rating points, six more than NZ with third-placed Australia accumulating 108 points. The 0-2 result against New Zealand was India's first series loss in the ICC World Test Championship

ICC Test rankings: Steve Smith displaces Kohli to become No.1 Test batsman

Kohli, who has 906 points, slipped to the second position in the list which also features Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara and Mayank Agarwl at the eighth, ninth and 10th place respectively

Test rankings: Rohit Sharma jumps to 17th spot, R Ashwin back in top 10

India batsman Rohit Sharma, who became the first player to score a century in each innings of his maiden Test as opener, on Monday jumped to a career-best 17th position in the ICC Test Player Rankings. Rohit, who now has five centuries from 28 Tests, gained a whopping 36 slots after his knocks of 176 and 127 in the first Test against South Africa in Visakhapatnam helped India win by 203 runs and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. The other opener Mayank Agarwal has also attained a career-best 25th position after his first innings double-century lifted him 38 places. Captain Virat Kohli, who retained his second spot, has dropped below the 900-point mark for the first time since January 2018. He is now on 899 points, 38 behind top-ranked Steve Smith of Australia. Among the bowlers, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has made a comeback to the top 10 after his match haul of eight wickets, which included figures of seven for 145 in the first innings. The formerly top-ranked bowle