Joe Root Tops ICC Test Batters’ Rankings: Ninth Time at No. 1
Joe Root has risen to the top of the ICC Test batters’ rankings with an incredible feat of skill and tenacity.
This is Root’s seventh consecutive year at the top, demonstrating his extraordinary ability in Test cricket.
After surpassing Kane Williamson to the top of the ICC rankings, England’s Joe Root is set to take over the top spot in the Test hitters’ rankings for a ninth time. With his game-winning 87 in the first innings of the Birmingham Test match against the West Indies, Root went to the top of the standings.
England made a lot of runs down the order, with Jamie Smith coming close to a century, but he was the only player in the top six to score more than 20. One of the major shifters in the rankings was the rookie batter-wickekeeper, who rose 31 spots to No. 64.
The most noteworthy development in the most recent update is Root’s ascent. During the Test, he achieved an even greater milestone when he surpassed Brian Lara’s Test match total of 11,953 to rank seventh all-time in runs scored in the history of the format.
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With 12,207 runs, Root leads all active Test cricketers, followed by Virat Kohli (8848) and Steven Smith (9685). After a strong showing in the first Ashes series match, he topped the Test batting rankings for the first time in August 2015 and the last time it happened was in June 2023.
Mark Wood, an England fast bowler, made history by finishing in the top 20 bowling rankings with his Player-of-the-Match performance of 7 for 92.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, the opening batsman for India, has returned to the top of the men’s T20I rankings. He amassed 80 runs at a strike rate of 178 during the three-match series against Sri Lanka, which his team won 3-0.
Shubman Gill climbed sixteen spots to a career-high twenty-first place. The other players to climb up the batting rankings are the two top scorers in the series, Pathum Nissanka of Sri Lanka (up 11 spots to 15th) and Kusal Perera of Sri Lanka (up 40 places to joint-63rd). Ravi Bishnoi, an Indian legspinner who was previously regarded as the best T20I bowler, is back in the top 10.
