Kyle Jamieson attains career-best third spot in ICC Men's Test player rankings

New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Jamieson has advanced eight places to a career-best third position in the ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings after a fine show in the two-match ICC World Test Championship series against Bangladesh that ended in a 1-1 draw.

The 27-year-old, who finished with eight wickets including six in the second Test in Christchurch, is only the fifth bowler from New Zealand to touch the 825-rating point mark after Richard Hadlee (909 in November 1985), Neil Wagner (859 in December 2019), Tim Southee (839 in November 2021) and Trent Boult (825 in May 2015).

Left-arm seam bowler Boult too has advanced in the latest weekly update that includes the fourth Ashes Test and the second Test between India and South Africa, moving up three places to 12^th with nine wickets in the series.

Among New Zealand’s batters, Tom Latham has advanced two places to 11^th after finishing with 267 runs in the series while Devon Conway’s 244-run aggregate, which includes two centuries, has lifted him 18 places to 29^th position after just five Tests. Ross Taylor has signed off from Test cricket in 28^th place, having attained a career-best fourth position and 871 rating points in December 2013.

Bangladesh’s Liton Das is up 17 places to a career-best 15^th position with 196 runs while Mominul Haque (up eight places to 37^th) and Najmul Hossain (up 21 places to 87^th) have also made notable progress among batters.

Fast bowler Ebadot Hossain has progressed 17 places to 88^th with nine wickets in the series, at the end of which New Zealand and Bangladesh were on sixth and seventh positions, respectively, in the WTC Points Table.

Steve Smith pips Kane Williamson, big gains for Scott Boland

The drawn fourth Test between Australia and England in Sydney sees Usman Khawaja make a memorable return to the Australian team with a Player of the Match effort. The 35-year-old left-hander’s scores of 137 and 101 not out see him re-enter the rankings in 26^th position in the list led by his compatriot Marnus Labuschagne.

Steve Smith has leapfrogged Kane Williamson to third among batters while Scott Boland has progressed 24 places to 49^th among bowlers. Cameron Green, up 11 places to 89^th among batters and 10 places to 75^th among bowlers, is another Australia player gaining in the rankings.

England all-rounder Ben Stokes has moved up nine places to 18^th among batters with scores of 66 and 60 while Jonny Bairstow’s knocks of 113 and 41 have lifted him 16 places to 55^th. Stuart Broad is up two places to 14^th and Mark Wood has gone from 41^st to 38^th.

South Africa captain Dean Elgar’s match-winning knock of 96 not out in Johannesburg has pushed him back into the top 10 for the first time since January 2019. His compatriot Temba Bavuma is up four places to 35^th after his first innings half-century.

Fast bowler Duanne Olivier has re-entered the bowlers’ list in 22^nd position with Lungi Ngidi (up three places to 27^th) and Marco Jansen (up 43 places to 54^th) also making headway.

For India, Shardul Thakur has advanced 10 places to 42^nd after finishing with an eight-wicket match haul that included seven wickets in the first innings.

In the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings, updated after the first West Indies-Ireland match, Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie has moved up five places to 35^th after scoring 71 and Harry Tector eight places to 62^nd after notching 53. West Indies captain Kieron Pollard is up five places to 86^th following his 66-ball 69. In the rankings for bowlers, Ireland’s Craig Young is up two places to 77^th.