India’s Rishabh Pant and England’s Jonny Bairstow made significant gains in the ICC Test Rankings for batters following their brilliance in the recent Edgbaston Test, while Virat Kohli fell out of top 10 for the first time since 2016.
Pant has attained his career-best Test Batting Ranking of No.5, leapfrogging Kane Williamson, Usman Khawaja, Dimuth Karunaratne and Rohit Sharma in the latest charts. The Delhi Capitals skipper scored 146 and 57 in India’s seven-wicket defeat in the rescheduled fifth Test against England at Edgbaston.
Bairstow, who registered twin-match winning hundreds, has moved up a staggering 11 spots to No. 10, thereby breaking into the top 10 for the first time since 2018. Notably, the right-hander was ranked 47th at the start of the ongoing English summer.
Joe Root’s 28th Test hundred – his 11th since the start of 2021 – helped him consolidate his position at the top, followed by Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Babar Azam and Pant to round off the top five. The former England skipper has also progressed to No. 19 in the highest-rated batters in Test history with 923 points – a chart led by the great Sir Don Bradman (961).
Meanwhile, Virat’s extended drought has resulted in him dropping four spots to the 13th position. The ex-India captain, who scored 11 and 20 at Edgbaston, dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in six years.
On the bowling front, James Anderson overtook New Zealand’s Kyle Jamieson to take the sixth spot, following his five-for in the first innings, while Stuart Broad dropped to No. 16.
Nathan Lyon, who returned 5/90 and 4/31 in Australia’s 10-wicket win over Sri Lanka in Galle last week, rose five spots to No. 13 in a table currently topped by his skipper Pat Cummins.
Men’s Test rankings: bowling
| # | Name | Rating |
| 1 | Pat Cummins (AUS) | 900 |
| 2 | R Ashwin (IND) | 842 |
| 3 | Jasprit Bumrah (IND) | 828 |
| 4 | Shaheen Afridi (PAK) | 827 |
| 5 | Kagiso Rabada (SA) | 818 |
| 6 | James Anderson (ENG) | 811 |
| 7 | Kyle Jamieson (NZ) | 788 |
| 8 | Kemar Roach (WI) | 756 |
| 9 | Neil Wagner (NZ) | 747 |
| 10 | Josh Hazlewood (NZ) | 744 |
