Yashasvi Jaiswal breaks into top-20 of ICC Test Rankings

Young India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal on Wednesday broke into the top-20 of the ICC Test Rankings, rising 14 spots to fifteenth within the batting charts after scoring back-to-back double-centuries within the ongoing sequence in opposition to England.

The 22-year-old left-hander joined a choose band of seven cricketers to attain double-centuries in two consecutive Tests, together with two Indians – Vinod Kambli and Virat Kohli.

Jaiswal scored 209 in India’s first innings within the second Test at Visakhapatnam after which hit unbeaten 214 runs within the second essay at Rajkot to contribute within the house workforce’s huge 434-run victory over England that took it 2-1 up within the sequence.

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Ravindra Jadeja, who was the player-of-the-match in Rajkot, additionally climbed up within the batting rankings from forty first to thirty fourth place after his knock of 112 within the first innings, the ICC mentioned in an announcement.

He additionally returned with a seven-wicket match haul that lifted him three locations to sixth within the bowling rankings. Veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who entered the elite 500 Test wickets membership at Rajkot, climbed a rung to the second place, behind tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah.

Jadeja and Ashwin continued to carry on to the primary two spots within the Test all-rounders rankings. Jadeja consolidated his place among the many all-rounders, going from 416 to a career-best 469 ranking factors.

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India captain Rohit Sharma moved up one spot to twelfth within the batting checklist after scoring 131 within the first innings at Rajkot, whereas Shubman Gill (91) progressed three locations to thirty fifth after coming near a century within the second innings.

Debutants Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel additionally entered the rankings in seventy fifth and a hundredth positions, respectively.

Star batter Kohli, who is just not taking part in within the sequence resulting from private causes, stays the one Indian within the top-10 batters’ chart, on the seventh spot.

For England, opener Ben Duckett’s quickfire 153 within the first innings lifted him 12 locations to thirteenth.

New Zealand’s Kane Wiliamson strengthened his place on the high of the batting rankings after notching a century in opposition to South Africa, his seventh in seven Tests, becoming a member of Aravinda de Silva, Mohammad Yousuf and Clyde Walcott as the one gamers to have achieved the distinctive feat.

He is adopted by Steve Smith and Daryl Mitchell.