Pakistan batsman Babar Azam has lost 3 places in ICC’s new Test rankings.

Pakistan batsman Babar Azam has reached 9th position in ICC’s new Test rankings. Star batsman Babar Azam lost 3 places in the rankings released on Wednesday. In the first match of the ongoing 2-match Test series with Bangladesh, Babar’s scores were 0 and 22 runs.(ICC Test Player Ranking 2024 Update)

Three batsmen of Team India are in the top 10. Rohit Sharma is at the top among them at sixth position. Yashasvi Jaiswal has jumped two places from 9th to 7th place.

Joe Root on top in test batsmen ranking
England’s batsman Joe Root remains on top in the ICC Test rankings. He recently played a match-winning inning of 62 runs in the first match against Sri Lanka. Kane Williamson of New Zealand is in second place. Daryl Mitchell is in third place. Harry Brook has jumped three positions to fourth place. Steve Smith is at fifth place and Indian captain Rohit Sharma is at sixth place.(ICC Test Player Ranking 2024 Update )

Yashasvi and Kohli also included in top-10
Yashasvi Jaiswal is at number 7 and Virat Kohli is at number 8. Babar Azam is at 9th position. Babar has lost 3 places due to not scoring a single half-century in the last 14 innings. On the other hand, wicketkeeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan has reached 10th position. Mohammad Rizwan is the first wicketkeeper of Pakistan to reach the top-10 in the ICC Test rankings.

Shaheen Afridi reached 10th position
Shaheen Afridi has also suffered a big setback in the ranking of Test bowlers. Pakistani pacer lost 2 places. Shaheen has now moved from 8th to 10th position. Three bowlers from India are in the top 10. R Ashwin is at number one. Jasprit Bumrah and Australia’s Josh Hazlewood are jointly at second position. Whereas Ravindra Jadeja is at number 7.

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli benefit
India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal has now managed to reach number 7 with the gain of one place. His rating is 740. Whereas Virat Kohli has gained two places. He has now reached number eight with a rating of 737. However, both of them have not played any Test for a long time. Despite this, both of them have gained in the points table. The reason for this is the poor form of Babar Azam.

No Indian bowler is in top-10 in T-20
If we talk about the latest ranking of T-20 bowlers, South Africa’s Enrique Nortya has suffered the most. He has dropped 4 places straight to number six. Nortya now has 662 rating points. There is no bowler from India in this list of top-10 bowlers. Ravi Bishnoi is at number 11 with 635 rating points, he was at number 10 on Tuesday.