Rishabh pant reaches a career highest 7th in the ICC test rankings | Mint

Dubai, June 25 (PTI) India’s Swashbuckling wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant reached a career highlight in the latest ICC test ranking for fighters on Wednesday, after his twin centuries in the series public against England in Leeds. In the first innings of the match, India’s new Test captain Shubman Gill lost five wickets by five wickets, despite the fact that England became a tight target of 371., Which only became the second wicketkeeper to hit two hundred in the same match during the first Test of the Five Game. Before the 27-year-old pants joined him, Zimbabwe’s Andy-Blom remained the only stumper with two centuries in the same test match. Pant hit 134 and 118 in the exciting Leeds test that won England by five wickets. There was little change in the test bowlers rankings, with the pace of India, Jasprit Bumrah, who retained his place at the top of the maps, after another five wickets in the Headingley test. Meanwhile, Ben Duckett, who was judged as Player of the Match for his scores of 62 and 149 in England’s victory, jumped five places in eighth place in the ranking. Duckett’s teammates Ollie Pope (three places up to 19th) and Jamie Smith (eighth places up to 27th) also achieved significant profits. The English veteran Joe Root has the no. 1 -test color remained, with teammate Harry Brook his closest challenger. English captain Ben Stokes found three places to move to fifth place in the list for test-Allrounders to good contributions with both BAT and ball over the same game. The first test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh saw a lot of their players make some lead in the latest rankings. Mushfiqur Rahim took the lead after his turn of 163 in Galle. Rahim got 11 places to move to the 28th place for Test Fighters, while teammate Najmul Hossain Shanto made an enormous 21 places on the same list after scoring a few tons in the same game.