TIL Desk Sports/ India skipper Virat Kohli retained his spot at the top among batsmen while injured pacer Jasprit Bumrah slipped a rung to sixth in the latest ICC Test rankings issued on Monday. Kohli (928 points) is 17 points clear of Australia’s Steve Smith who scored 43 and 16 in the first Test against New Zealand which Australia won by 296 runs.
Cheteshwar Pujara (791) and Ajinkya Rahane (759) held on to their fourth and sixth spots respectively. Australia batsman Marnus Labuschagne continued his surge, entering the top five in the list of batsmen after scores of 143 and 50 in the Perth Test.
Labuschagne, who narrowly missed joining Pakistan’s Zaheer Abbas and Mudassar Nazar in scoring at least 150 in three successive Test innings, has gained three slots to occupy fifth place. He has overtaken compatriot David Warner and is the second-highest ranked Australia batsman after Steve Smith.
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