ICC Test Rankings: Rishabh Pant’s Career-best Test Ranking

ICC Test Rankings: Rishabh Pant’s career-best Test ranking, Virat out of top-10 for the first time in 6 years.

India’s star wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant moved up five places to a career-best 5th spot in the batsmen’s list in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings released on Wednesday.

Struggling with poor form, Virat Kohli dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in 6 years.

Pant scored 146 and 57 runs in both the innings against England in the recently held fifth Test due to Covid-19. Pant has scored two centuries and three half-centuries in the last six Test innings.

Former India captain Virat Kohli, however, slipped four places to 13th in the batting rankings.

He has been battling poor form for quite some time now. Kohli has dropped out of the top 10 in Test rankings for the first time in six years.

The current Indian captain Rohit Sharma, who was out of the Edgbaston Test due to being found Covid-19 positive, has also lost a place in the rankings. He is ranked 9th.

Joe Root, who scored an unbeaten 142 in England’s second innings at Edgbaston, has consolidated his position at the top of the batting rankings.

He has 923 marks. Australian batsmen Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith are in second and third place respectively.

Jonny Bairstow, who has been in excellent form and scored centuries in both the innings of the fifth Test against India, has jumped 11 places to 10th in the rankings.

Bairstow has so far scored 1218 runs at an average of 55.36 with the help of six centuries in the ongoing ICC Test Championship cycle.

Team India: 4 captains in a month, 8 captains in a year.

The Indian Cricket Board has announced the team for the West Indies tour. Shikhar Dhawan has been made the captain of this team.

Shikhar Dhawan, popularly known as Gabbar, will be the fourth cricketer to captain the Indian team within a month.

If we talk about the last year, then Dhawan will become the eighth cricketer to captain the Indian team. Under the captaincy of Dhawan, the Indian team will play three ODIs against the West Indies.

The way the captain is changing in the Indian team may be part of the plan set by the BCCI. But seeing its speed, it seems as if this chair race is going on.

There is a good reason to think so. Actually, the regular captain of the Indian team, Rohit Sharma has turned 34 years old.

In such a situation, everyone knows that he cannot handle the command of the team for a long time. For this reason, the board is looking for a new captain.

However, Shikhar Dhawan is not on the list of possible new captains. He should be seen as a caretaker captain.