The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the updated player andteam rankings with not many significant changes since the last week.
No Pakistani player has witnessed significant movement in their position inboth the batting and bowling departments with Babar Azam maintaining hiseighth position in Test batters rankings and Shaheen Afridi and Hasan Alimaintaining their fifth and eleventh positions respectively in the Testbowlers rankings.
Indian batter, Mayank Agarwal, on the other hand, gained a staggering 31places and is now ranked number 11 in Test batters rankings. New Zealand’sTom Latham lost three places after a disappointing series against Indiawhich helped Australian batter, David Warner, to move up one spot to number9 in the world.
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Here are the updated Test rankings:Batters*Ranking* *Player* *Rating Points*1 Joe Root 9032 Steve Smith 8913 Kane Williamson 8794 Marnus Labuschagne 8785 Rohit Sharma 7976 Virat Kohli 7567 Dimuth Karunaratne 754*8* *Babar Azam* *737*9 David Warner 72410 Quinton De Kock 717Bowlers*Ranking* *Player* *Rating Points*1 Pat Cummins 9082 Ravichandran Ashwin 8833 Josh Hazelwood 8164 Tim Southee 814*5* *Shaheen Afridi* *810*6 Kagiso Rabada 7987 Neil Wagner 7948 James Anderson 7949 Kyle Jamieson 76410 Jasprit Bumrah 756
