India’s Ravichandran Ashwin has achieved the number-one position in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders after a stellar performance in the Kolkata Test, which India won by an innings and 51 runs with more than two days to spare.

Ravichandran Ashwin celebrates his second test ton against West Indies. Photo by: Pal Pillai - BCCI - SPORTZPICS

Ashwin scored 124, his second Test century, and recorded match figures of 40-11-98-5. For this performance, he not only improved his batting and bowling rankings but also leapfrogged Shakib Al Hasan and Jacques Kallis into the number-one spot in the all-rounders’ list.

Ashwin has earned 81 ratings points and now leads Shakib by 43 ratings points.

In the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen, Ashwin has moved up 18 places to 45th position, while in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers, the 27-year-old off-spinner has gained two places and is now sitting in sixth position.

Middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma and fast bowler Mohammed Shami, who made their debuts in the Kolkata Test, have made impressive entries into the Reliance ICC Player Rankings.

Sharma, who become the 14th India batsman to score a century on debut when he struck 177, has broken into the rankings in 63rd spot in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen, while Shami’s figures of nine for 118 – the most by an India fast bowler on debut – has helped him enter in 53rd place of the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers.

West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford and India fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar are the other bowlers to improve their rankings. Shillingford’s figures of six for 167 has put him inside the top 20 in 17th position for the first time in his career (up by four), while Kumar’s two wickets have helped him move into 87th place (up by 13).

The batting chart continues to be headed by AB de Villiers of South Africa, while his team-mate Dale Steyn is the number-one ranked bowler.

The player rankings will now be updated at the end of the Mumbai Test, which starts on 14 November.

Reliance ICC Test Player Rankings (as on 9 November, after the Kolkata Test)

Batsmen
Rank      (+/-)       Player                   Team     Pts          Ave         HS Rating
1           ( – )          AB de Villiers        SA           909!       51.44     909 v Pak at Dubai 2013
2           ( – )          Hashim Amla       SA           898         52.32     907 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2013
3           ( – )          S.Chanderpaul     WI          882         51.89     901 v NZ at Napier 2008
4           ( – )          K.Sangakkara      SL           866         56.98     938 v Eng at Kandy 2007
5           ( – )          Michael Clarke    Aus         853         52.08     900 v SL at Melbourne 2012
6           ( – )          Misbah-ul-Haq    Pak         783!       46.03     783 v SA at Dubai 2013
7           (+1)         Graeme Smith      SA           771         49.36     843 v Eng at Johannesburg 2010
8=        (+1)         Younus Khan       Pak         769         51.17     880 v SL at Lahore 2009
(-1)          C.Pujara                                Ind          769*      63.00     777 v Aus at Delhi 2013
10         ( – )          Ian Bell                  Eng         748         46.66     822 v Ind at The Oval 2011
11         ( – )          Alastair Cook       Eng         737         47.85     874 v Ind at Kolkata 2012
12         ( – )          Ross Taylor          NZ          721         42.81     785 v SL at Colombo (PSS) 2012
13         ( – )          Kevin Pietersen    Eng         706         48.38     909 v WI at Headingley 2007
14         ( – )          Jacques Kallis       SA           704         55.44     935 v NZ at Centurion 2007
15         ( – )          Jonathan Trott     Eng         698         47.39     856 v SL at Cardiff 2011
16         ( – )          Marlon Samuels  WI          661         37.31     672 v Zim at Bridgetown 2013
17         ( – )          Asad Shafiq          Pak         660*      39.11     680 v SA at Cape Town 2013
18         ( – )          Matt Prior              Eng         647         42.36     745 v NZ at Auckland 2013
19=       ( – )          M.Jayawardene   SL           639         49.56     883 v Ind at Ahmedabad 2009
(+1)         MS Dhoni              Ind          639         39.72     662 v SA at Kolkata 2010

Selected Rankings
Rank     (+/-)         Player                 Team      Pts          Ave       HS Rating
21         (+1)         Darren Bravo       WI          629         43.82     709 v Aus at Port-of-Spain 2012
22         (-2)          Chris Gayle           WI          628         42.25     755 v SL at Galle 2010
23         (+1)         Sachin Tendulkar                Ind          620         53.71     898 v Zim at Nagpur 2002
25         (-3)          Virat Kohli            Ind          615*      40.62     648 v Aus at Mohali 2013
45         (+18)      R.Ashwin               Ind          518*!    41.11     518 v WI at Kolkata 2013
57         (+4)         Kieran Powell       WI          450*      30.44     468 v Ban at Mirpur 2012
63         (NEW)    Rohit Sharma       Ind          422*!    177.00  422 v WI at Kolkata 2013
64         (-6)          Darren Sammy    WI          421         22.00     452 v Zim at Bridgetown 2013
67         (-7)          Denesh Ramdin   WI          408         25.68     438 v Eng at Lord’s 2007
69         (-3)          Shikhar Dhawan  Ind          402*      105.00  420 v Aus at Mohali 2013
71         (-1)          Kirk Edwards        WI          395*      39.11     524 v Aus at Bridgetown 2012

Bowlers
Rank      (+/-)        Player                Team       Pts          Ave      Econ      HS Rating
1           ( – )          Dale Steyn            SA           903         22.65     908 v Pak at Johannesburg 2013
2           ( – )          Vernon Philander SA           899*      17.50     901 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2013
3           ( – )          Rangana Herath  SL           831         29.52     838 v NZ at Colombo (PSS) 2012
4           ( – )          Saeed Ajmal         Pak         824         26.54     855 v Zim at Harare 2013
5           ( – )          Ryan Harris          Aus         782*!    22.26     782 v Eng at The Oval 2013
6           (+2)         R.Ashwin               Ind          781*!    28.07     781 v WI at Kolkata 2013
7=        (-1)          Graeme Swann    Eng         760         28.55     858 v Pak at Lord’s 2010
(-1)          Peter Siddle           Aus         760         29.11     816 v Eng at Old Trafford 2013
9           ( – )          James Anderson  Eng         741         30.10     813 v Ind at Edgbaston 2011
10         ( – )          Stuart Broad         Eng         740         30.58     783 v WI at Lord’s 2012
11         (+1)         Abdur Rehman    Pak         703*      27.55     739 v Eng at Dubai 2012
12         (+1)         Morne Morkel      SA           700         30.23     776 v Aus at Cape Town 2011
13         (-2)          Pragyan Ojha       Ind          676         32.33     773 v Eng at Kolkata 2012
14         ( – )          Kemar Roach       WI          675*      27.71     712 v NZ at Kingston 2012
15         ( – )          Ben Hilfenhaus    Aus         659*      28.50     757 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2012
16         ( – )          Shakib Al Hasan Ban        614         32.60     680 v WI at Mirpur 2011
17         (+4)         S.Shillingford        WI          605*!    30.85     605 v Ind at Kolkata 2013
18         (-1)          Zaheer Khan        Ind          594         32.35     752 v SA at Durban 2010
19         (-1)          Tim Southee         NZ          585*      34.33     621 v Eng at Lord’s 2013
20         (-1)          Steven Finn           Eng         580*      29.40     624 v NZ at Headingley 2013

Selected Rankings
Rank     (+/-)      Player                Team       Pts          Ave      Econ      HS Rating
31         (-3)          Darren Sammy    WI          500*      35.12     568 v Aus at Bridgetown 2012
53         (NEW)    M.Shami               Ind          343*!    13.11     343 v WI at Kolkata 2013
54         (-3)          Tino Best               WI          329*      38.08     419 v Ban at Khulna 2012
74         (-3)          Chris Gayle           WI          259*      42.00     413 v Eng at Chester-le-St 2007
75         (-2)          Marlon Samuels  WI          242*      50.91     250 v Zim at Dominica 2013
87         (+13)      B.Kumar               Ind          189*!    36.50     189 v WI at Kolkata 2013

All-rounders
Rank    (+/-)        Player                 Team       Pts        HS Rating
1           (+2)         R.Ashwin               Ind          405*/*! 405 v WI at Kolkata 2013
2           (-1)          Shakib Al Hasan Ban        362        404 v Pak at Mirpur 2011
3           (-1)          Jacques Kallis       SA           332        616 v Pak at Durban 2002
4           ( – )          Stuart Broad         Eng         288        382 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2012
5           ( – )          Vernon Philander SA           283*/*  312 v Pak at Centurion 2013

* indicates provisional rating; a batsman qualifies for a full rating after playing 40 Test innings; a bowler qualifies for a full rating when he reaches 100 Test wickets.
!indicates career-highest rating

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