ICC rankings: Bhuvneshwar Kumar at his career best

In the latest ICC rankings, Bhuvneshwar Kumar has reached a career-best ranking of 22.

The ranking comes soon after Kumar’s brilliant performance in the first test against South Africa.

Kumar had taken six wickets across two South African innings in the first Test, which India lost by 72 runs.

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In the batting ranking, Steven Smith Continues to be in the first spot whereas Kohli slipped a position and reached the 3rd spot while England Batsman Joe Root grabbed the second spot.

Root earned 26 points from the Sydney Test, in which he was dismissed once while scoring 141 runs, but Kohli dropped 13 points after his contributions of five and 28 at Newlands.

Pujara’s scores of 26 and four resulted in his total falling by 25 points.

South Africa’s Hashim Amla and Dean Elgar slipped three places apiece to finish in 10th and 16th positions respectively, but AB de Villiers jumped five places to 13th with a slot in the top-10 firmly within his sights.

South Africa opener Aiden Markram, who was the player of the tournament in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in 2014, and India all-rounder Hardik Pandya were the other big movers from the Newlands Test. Markram moved up six places to 48th, while Pandya was ranked 49th after rocketing 24 places.

India’s Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, and Rohit Sharma also lost ground. Vijay was 30th after dropping five places, Dhawan slipped three places to 33rd, while Sharma ended up 44th after falling three places.

India at the same still holds the first rank among test teams.