Kumar Sangakkara’s historic effort of 424 runs in the second and final Test in Chittagong against Bangladesh has seen him jump five places to second in the latest Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen.
Kumar Sangakkara hit a total 424 runs in the last Test match against Bangladesh to rank number 2 in test rating. Photo by Shiek Mohamed.
Sangakkara rewrote the history books with his knocks of 319 and 105 in either innings of the Chittagong Test. He became only the second player in history to score a triple hundred and hundred in the same Test. Overall, he became the fourth man in history to score 400 runs in one Test.
Sangakkara, named Player of the Match and Series, gained 58 ratings points for his effort. He is now three ratings points ahead of third-ranked Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and 33 behind number-one ranked AB de Villiers.
Meanwhile, Ross Taylor in fifth (down by two) and Cheteshwar Pujara in sixth (down by one) changed positions inside the top 10 at the end of the first Test in Auckland between India and New Zealand on Sunday.
New Zealand won the Auckland Test by 40 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series and the side now has three batsmen inside the top 20.
Alongside Taylor, the latest entrants in the top 20 are Kane Williamson and Brendon McCullum, centurions in the Auckland Test. Williamson, who stroked 113 in the first innings, jumped four places to a career-high of 19th.
McCullum has jumped 15 places to return to the top 20 following his knock of 224, which also earned him the Player of the Match award. McCullum now sits in 20th place.
Meanwhile, New Zealand’s Trent Boult has risen three places to a career-best seventh in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers, following his match haul of six for 124. Boult’s pace partner, Tim Southee has made it to the top 10 for the first time in his career. Southee notched up six for 119 in the Test and now sits in 10th place on the table (up four places).
Also in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers, Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan has moved up one place to 20th, to return to the top 20 in the bowlers’ table.
Sri Lanka retains sixth place
Host Bangladesh held on for a draw in the second and final Test in Chittagong, but it was Sri Lanka who won the series 1-0 and held onto sixth place on the Reliance ICC Test Team Rankings Table.
The 1-0 scoreline meant that Sri Lanka dropped one ratings points to finish on 89 in sixth place, two ahead of seventh-ranked West Indies, but 11 behind fifth-placed Pakistan. Bangladesh, on the other hand, gained one ratings points to remain in tenth place at 19.
Sixth-ranked Sri Lanka entered the series with 90 ratings points, leading tenth-ranked Bangladesh by 72 ratings points.
Sri Lanka had entered the final Test with a 1-0 lead, needing to win or draw to retain sixth place. A loss would have meant that Sri Lanka slipped behind West Indies into seventh place on the Rankings table. Sri Lanka could have also slipped down further, to eighth place, if New Zealand had won both the Tests in its ongoing series against India. As a result of the Sri Lanka-Bangladesh series, New Zealand can at the most move up a place to seventh, while India is playing to retain its second position.
Forthcoming fixtures
New Zealand v India
14-18 February: Second Test, Wellington
South Africa v Australia
13-16 February: First Test, Centurion
20-24 February: Second Test, Port Elizabeth
1-5 March: Third Test, Cape Town
To find out exactly how the forthcoming series will affect the Rankings Table, please click here. The Test Ranking Table, unlike the ODI and T20I Rankings tables, are updated after every series.
Reliance ICC Test Team Rankings table (as on 8 February, after the Bangladesh v Sri Lanka series)
Rank (+/-) Team Rating (+/-)
1 South Africa 133
2 India 117
3 Australia 111
4 England 107
5 Pakistan 100
6 (-) Sri Lanka 89 (-1)
7 West Indies 87
8 New Zealand 82
9 Zimbabwe 34
10 (-) Bangladesh 19 (+1)
(Developed by David Kendix)
Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Tests (as on 9 February after the Bangladesh-Sri Lanka series and first New Zealand-India Test):
Batsmen
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) AB de Villiers SA 912! 51.71 912 v Ind at Durban 2013
2 (+5) K Sangakkara SL 879 58.07 938 v Eng at Kandy 2007
3 (-1) S.Chanderpaul WI 876 51.93 901 v NZ at Napier 2008
4 ( – ) Hashim Amla SA 868 51.34 907 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2013
5 (-2) Ross Taylor NZ 851 46.94 871 v WI at Hamilton 2013
6 (-1) C Pujara Ind 832* 62.07 851 v SA at Durban 2013
7 (-1) Misbah-ul-Haq Pak 824! 48.75 824 v SL at Sharjah 2014
8 ( – ) Michael Clarke Aus 817 51.40 900 v SL at Melbourne 2012
9 ( – ) Graeme Smith SA 785 49.56 843 v Eng at Johannesburg 2010
10 ( – ) Younus Khan Pak 759 51.38 880 v SL at Lahore 2009
11 ( – ) Virat Kohli Ind 738* 43.83 748 v SA at Johannesburg 2013
12 ( – ) Angelo Mathews SL 706 46.16 716 v Ban at Mirpur 2014
13 ( – ) M Jayawardena SL 699 50.30 883 v Ind at Ahmedabad 2009
14 ( – ) Chris Rogers Aus 694*! 40.42 694 v Eng at Sydney 2014
15 ( – ) David Warner Aus 683 40.93 741 v Eng at Perth 2013
16 ( – ) Ian Bell Eng 682 45.41 822 v Ind at The Oval 2011
17 ( – ) Alastair Cook Eng 677 46.51 874 v Ind at Kolkata 2012
18 ( – ) Kevin Pietersen Eng 674 47.28 909 v WI at Headingley 2007
19 (+4) K Williamson NZ 654! 36.73 654 v Ind at Auckland 2014
20 (+15) B McCullum NZ 650 36.36 673 v Pak at Hamilton 2011
Selected Rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
32 (+1) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 594 37.96 603 v WI at Khulna 2012
33 (-5) MS Dhoni Ind 592 38.51 662 v SA at Kolkata 2010
36= (+4) Mominul Haque Ban 573* 75.50 584 v NZ at Mirpur 2013
(+6) Rohit Sharma Ind 573*! 60.57 573 v NZ at Auckland 2014
38 (-2) Murali Vijay Ind 558* 37.00 569 v SA at Durban 2013
41 (+3) D Chandimal SL 552* 51.47 571 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2013
42 (-5) M Rahim Ban 551 32.43 584 v Eng at Chittagong 2010
43 (-4) Tamim Iqbal Ban 534 36.59 707 v Eng at Old Trafford 2010
45 ( – ) Nasir Hossain Ban 510* 42.45 550 v NZ at Chittagong 2013
48 (-1) BJ Watling NZ 477* 33.37 509 v WI at Wellington 2013
51 (-3) Kaushal Silva SL 464* 38.00 491 v Ban at Mirpur 2014
58 (+32) Shikhar Dhawan Ind 433*! 48.22 433 v NZ at Auckland 2014
61 (-1) Ajinkya Rahane Ind 412* 37.28 424 v SA at Durban 2013
71 (-1) Junaid Siddique Ban 392* 26.18 501 v Eng at Lord’s 2010
74 (-13) H Rutherford NZ 382* 31.33 454 v Eng at Wellington 2013
78 (-5) Peter Fulton NZ 370* 28.00 413 v Eng at Auckland 2013
80 (-2) D Karunaratne SL 368* 30.21 379 v Ban at Mirpur 2014
81 (+21) Corey Anderson NZ 367*! 37.62 367 v Ind at Auckland 2014
86 ( – ) Mahmudullah Ban 342* 27.96 445 v NZ at Hamilton 2010
98 (+4) Tim Southee NZ 298 18.88 304 v Eng at Headingley 2013
Bowlers
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) V Philander SA 909 18.00 912 v Ind at Johannesburg 2013
2 ( – ) Dale Steyn SA 901 22.90 908 v Pak at Johannesburg 2013
3 ( – ) Ryan Harris Aus 866*! 21.56 866 v Eng at Sydney 2014
4 ( – ) Saeed Ajmal Pak 787 27.46 855 v Zim at Harare 2013
5 (+1) Peter Siddle Aus 779 28.68 816 v Eng at Old Trafford 2013
6 (-1) Rangana Herath SL 774 30.02 838 v NZ at Colombo (PSS) 2012
7 (+3) Trent Boult NZ 766*! 26.08 766 v Ind at Auckland 2014
8 (-1) R Ashwin Ind 752 28.50 808 v WI at Mumbai 2013
9 (-1) M Johnson Aus 743 28.33 825 v Eng at Cardiff 2009
10 (+4) Tim Southee NZ 741! 30.79 741 v Ind at Auckland 2014
11 (-2) Pragyan Ojha Ind 734 30.26 773 v Eng at Kolkata 2012
12 (-2) Stuart Broad Eng 729 30.31 783 v WI at Lord’s 2012
13 (-1) Morne Morkel SA 707 29.91 776 v Aus at Cape Town 2011
14 (-1) Abdur Rehman Pak 705* 27.75 739 v Eng at Dubai 2012
15 ( – ) James Anderson Eng 683 30.67 813 v Ind at Edgbaston 2011
16 ( – ) Kemar Roach WI 649* 27.71 712 v NZ at Kingston 2012
17 ( – ) Ben Hilfenhaus Aus 627* 28.50 757 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2012
18 ( – ) Junaid Khan Pak 623*! 29.07 623 v SL at Sharjah 2014
19 ( – ) Nathan Lyon Aus 618 32.52 648 v Eng at Melbourne 2013
20= (+1) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 613 33.36 680 v WI at Mirpur 2011
( – ) S Shillingford WI 613* 32.32 652 v NZ at Dunedin 2013
Selected Rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
22 ( – ) Zaheer Khan Ind 582 32.74 752 v SA at Durban 2010
24 (-1) Ravindra Jadeja Ind 544* 23.42 570 v SA at Durban 2013
25 (+6) Ishant Sharma Ind 539 37.63 671 v WI at Dominica 2011
28 (+13) Neil Wagner NZ 505*! 34.17 505 v Ind at Auckland 2014
35 (+5) Ajantha Mendis SL 436* 33.55 572 v Ban at Chittagong 2009
41 (+3) M Shami Ind 387* 27.47 415 v SA at Johannesburg 2013
42 (-3) Sohag Gazi Ban 386* 42.07 459 v NZ at Chittagong 2013
47 (-2) Corey Anderson NZ 340* 24.00 377 v WI at Hamilton 2013
52 ( – ) Suranga Lakmal SL 321* 49.35 324 v Ban at Mirpur 2014
62 (+30) Dilruwan Perera SL 288*! 36.27 288 v Ban at Chittagong 2014
64 (+6) Mahmudullah Ban 258* 45.74 381 v WI at St George’s 2009
71 (-4) K Williamson NZ 233* 41.13 291 v Eng at Headingley 2013
89 (-3) Abdur Razzak Ban 159* 67.56 169 v NZ at Mirpur 2013
92 (+12) Nasir Hossain Ban 145*! 50.25 145 v SL at Chittagong 2014
96 (-7) Ish Sodhi NZ 129* 59.72 177 v WI at Dunedin 2013
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Rating
1 ( – ) R Ashwin Ind 381*/ 419 v WI at Mumbai 2013
2 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 364 404 v Pak at Mirpur 2011
3 ( – ) V Philander SA 335*/ ! 335 v Ind at Durban 2013
4 ( – ) Stuart Broad Eng 291 382 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2012
5 ( – ) Shane Watson Aus 260/* 394 v SA at Johannesburg 2011
Selected ranking
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Rating
7 (+2) Tim Southee NZ 221! 221 v Ind at Auckland 2014
* 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