Mayank Agarwal breaks into top 10 batsmen in the latest ICC Test rankings; Labuschagne achieves career-best rating

Virat Kohli only three points behind the top-ranked Steve Smith.

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Marnus Labuschagne and Bradley-John Watling have achieved career-best positions in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings with epic knocks that also won them the Player of the Match awards this week.

Labuschagne’s score of 185 that helped Australia to victory over Pakistan by an innings and five runs in Brisbane has taken him from 35th to 14th place, while Watling’s 205 in Tauranga not only helped New Zealand beat England by an innings and 65 runs but has also lifted him 12 places to 12th position.

Labuschagne occupied 95th position when summoned as a concussion substitute for Steve Smith in the Lord’s Ashes Test in August and has made rapid progress since then, while Watling too has much to celebrate, as he is now the top-ranked wicketkeeper-batsman, having overtaken South Africa’s Quinton de Kock.

Apart from Labuschagne, the other Australia batsmen to advance in the latest rankings update include opener David Warner (up six places to 17th), Joe Burns (up 11 places to 62nd) and Matthew Wade (up four places to 70th) while fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has moved from 13th to joint-ninth in the bowlers’ list.

Their opposition Pakistan did not have much to cheer about with Shan Masood (up seven places to 57th) among batsmen and Haris Sohail (up 12 places to 81st) among bowlers moving up in the latest update that also takes into account performances in the day-night Kolkata Test in which India defeated Bangladesh by an innings and 46 runs.

Watling is not the only one to gain big from his team as Neil Wagner’s eight-wicket match haul has catapulted him to a career-best third position with a tally of 816 rating points, the third best ever by a New Zealand bowler after Richard Hadlee (909 points) and Trent Boult (825).

Kohli bridges the gap between him and Steve Smith

England all-rounder Ben Stokes is in the top 10 for batsmen for the first time after scores of 91 and 28 helped him gain three slots, while Joe Denly and Rory Burns have also made notable progress. India captain Virat Kohli’s commanding century in Kolkata has helped him bridge the gap with top-ranked Steve Smith from 25 to three points while opener Mayank Agarwal has reached the top 10 for the first time.

India fast bowlers Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav are at career-high points tallies after victory over Bangladesh. Ishant has 716 points but is in 17th place, way behind his career-best seventh place achieved in July 2011. Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim has gained four slots to reach 26th position after scoring a fighting 74 in the second innings of the Kolkata Test while Liton Das is up eight slots to 78th position.

Here are the latest ICC Test rankings:

Team Rankings

RankTeamPoints
1 India119
2New Zealand109
3England104
4South Africa102
5Australia99
6Sri Lanka95
7Pakistan84
8West Indies80
9Bangladesh61
10Afghanistan55
11Zimbabwe16
12Ireland0

Top 10 batsmen

RankPlayerTeamPts
   1Steve SmithAus931
2Virat KohliIndia928
3K WilliamsonNZ877
4C PujaraIndia791
5A RahaneIndia759
6Henry NichollsNZ744
7D KarunaratneSL723
8Tom LathamNZ707
9Ben StokesEng704!
10M AgarwalIndia700*!
12BJ WatlingNZ693
14Marnus LabuschagneAus684
17David WarnerAus666
26Mushfiqur RahimBan614
36Jonny BairstowEng557
46Rory BurnsEng532
57Shan MasoodPak494
72Mitchell SantnerNZ432

Top 10 bowlers

RankPlayerTeamPts
1Pat CumminsAus907
2Kagiso RabadaSA839
3Neil WagnerNZ816!
4Jason HolderWI814!
5J BumrahIndia794*
6J AndersonEng790
7V PhilanderSA783
8Kemar RoachWI780!
9=R AshwinIndia772
J HazlewoodAus772
15R JadejaIndia725
17I SharmaIndia716
21U YadavIndia672
29B StokesEng571

Top 5 All-Rounders

RankPlayerTeamPts
1Jason HolderWI472!
2R JadejaIndia406
3Ben StokesEng401
4V PhilanderSA315
5R AshwinIndia308

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