India’s Test captain Shubman Gill’s historic knocks of 269 and 161 in the second Test against England at Edgbaston helped him rise 15 places to No. 6 in the latest ICC Test rankings for batters, with a career-best rating of 807 points.
England batter Harry Brook, who scored 158 in the first innings of the second Test, is now the top-ranked Test batter in the world. Brook replaced his team-mate Joe Root at the top, and is now 18 points clear of Root, who has moved down to second.
Between Brook, Root, and Gill, there are Kane Williamson (third), Yashasvi Jaiswal (fourth), and Steven Smith (fifth) on the charts.
England wicketkeeper-batter Jamie Smith also gained a few notches in the rankings after the Edgbaston Test. His twin contributions of a career-best 184 not out, during which he rescued England from 84 for 5 in the first innings along with Brook, and 88 in the second innings helped him rise 16 spots to No. 10.
South Africa all-rounder Wiaan Mulder, who got a mammoth unbeaten 367 in the second Test against Zimbabwe, gained in both batters’ and all-rounders’ rankings. While he jumped 34 places to No. 22 among the batters, he also went up 12 places to No. 3 among all-rounders. Ravindra Jadeja still leads the all-rounders’ rankings.
In the ODI rankings for batters, Sri Lanka’s duo of captain Charith Asalanka and Kusal Mendis were the beneficiaries after their impactful performances in their 2-1 win against Bangladesh. Kusal entered the top 10 by rising ten spots after scoring 225 runs in the series, including knocks of 124 and 56, that got him the Player-of-the-Series award. Asalanka, meanwhile, rose two places to No. 6 after his match-winning innings of 106 and 58 in the first and third ODIs, respectively.