ICC Test Rankings: Joe Root Sits One Shy Of Personal Best Ratings; Babar Azam Drops Out Of Top 10

ICC Test Rankings: Joe Root asserts his dominance in batters' rankings up top, whereas, poor form with the bat sees Babar Azam drop out of Top 10. Here are the details.

Joe Root currently has 922 Ratings and sits first in ICC Test rankings

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ICC Test Rankings: England legend Joe Root has extended the gap between first and second place in ICC Test Rankings of batsmen by 63 Ratings, and now sits at 922, which is one shy of his personal best 923 (which he attained in July 2022 after scoring a century at Edgbaston against India).

However, a poor run with the bat now sees Babar Azam drop out of Top 10, and Pakistan have dealt a huge blow in ICC Test Ratings in all the three categories (batting; bowling; all-rounders) with Shaheen Shah Afridi too dropping out of Top 10 in bowlers' category. With that, only Mohammad Rizwan is the sole representative of the nation in Tests in the Top 10 list (10th rank in batters).

Coming back to the England Vs Sri Lanka series, Gus Atkinson sees a meteoric rise in the Rankings, as the 26-year-old jumps upto 48 places in the all-rounders category to sit at 17th with 198 Ratings. The English fast bowler created history by becming the third cricketer in the history to record a century and a five-wicket haul in a single Test match at the iconic Lord's Cricket Ground.

Updated List Of ICC Test Rankings (Individuals)

Batters

Rank	Player	Country	Ratings
1	Joe Root	England	922
2	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	859
3	Daryl Mitchell	New Zealand	768
4	Steve Smith	Australia	757
5	Harry Brook	England	753
6	Rohit Sharma	India	751
7	Yashasvi Jaiswal	India	740
8	Virat Kohli	India	737
9	Usman Khawaja	Australia	728
10	Mohammad Rizwan	Pakistan	720

Bowlers

Rank	Player	Country	Ratings
1	Ravichandran Ashwin	India	870
2	Jasprit Bumrah	India	847
3	Josh Hazlewood	Australia	847
4	Kagiso Rabada	South Africa	820
4	Pat Cummins	Australia	820
6	Nathan Lyon	Australia	801
7	Ravindra Jadeja	India	788
8	Asitha Fernando	Sri Lanka	734
9	Kyle Jamieson	New Zealand	729
10	Matt Henry	New Zealand	711

All-Rounders

Rank	Player	Country	Ratings
1	Ravindra Jadeja	India	444
2	Ravichandran Ashwin	India	322
3	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	303
4	Joe Root	England	297
5	Jason Holder	West Indies	270
6	Axar Patel	India	269
7	Mehidy Hasan Miraz	Bangladesh	263
8	Ben Stokes	England	255
9	Chris Woakes	England	250
10	Pat Cummins	Australia	245