The ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings now lists Jonny Bairstow and Rishabh Pant in the top ten players. Bairstow has moved up 11 spots to ninth in the Test batting rankings after scoring an unbroken 114 in England’s fourth-innings triumph against India. Lets look at Top 10 ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings
The 32-year-old is possibly in the finest form of his career, scoring four hundred in his past three Test matches, including two centuries in the match against India that was postponed after he reached three figures in each of his previous two matches against New Zealand. Bairstow has 1218 runs in the current ICC World Test Championship cycle, scoring 600 and averaging 55.36.
The rankings show Bairstow’s quick rise; with 541 rating points before the New Zealand series, the Yorkshireman was rated 47th among hitters. He has returned to the top 10 for the first time since 2018 after playing in four games and scoring four hundred.
Many cricket fans and cricketing analysts have gone crazy over Rishabh Pant’s obsession with red-ball cricket. His signature move, which has become well recognized as his signature, involves striking sixes with one hand and tumbling to the ground as he does so.
India was in serious danger in the first innings of the just-finished fifth Test match against England due to the bowlers steamrolling him, including James Anderson, Stuart Broad, and Matthew Potts.
Rishabh Pant produced one of the best efforts by an Indian wicketkeeper-batsman at Edgbaston following his exploits in the storied Gabba Test match played in January 2021. With Ravindra Jadeja at the other end, Pant scored a scorching 146 runs and put up a partnership of almost 222 runs. In the second innings, he followed it up with a half-century, but regrettably, he did not have much help at the other end.
Pant, who reaped the benefits of his efforts, rose to a career-high fifth place in the most recent ICC Test rankings, which were released on Wednesday. Rishabh Pant has outrun former India captain Virat Kohli, who has slipped out of the top 10 for the first time since 2016.
Due to his two tonnes and three half-centuries in his past six Test innings, Pant has received recognition from the ICC. The current Indian captain Rohit Sharma fell one spot as well since he missed the important Edgbaston Test after contracting COVID-19.
