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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