- Renshaw and Hazlewood climb ICC Test rankings; Iyer achieved his fourth career high in T20Is. Matthew Renshaw’s 190 in Durban and Josh Hazlewood’s 6/49 catulted the Australians up the rankings, while Shreyas Iyer’s maiden T20I century took them to fourth place.
- Renshaw and Hazlewood climb ICC Test rankings; Iyer reaches fourth career high in T20Is (Source: BCCI) The ICC has released updated player rankings after a busy period in international cricket, with Australia’s Matthew Renshaw and Josh Hazlewood among the top players in the Test batting and bowling rankings.
- India’s Shreyas Iyer, on the other hand, reached a personal milestone in the T20I batting rankings with a dominant performance in Lucknow.
Renshaw and Hazlewood climb ICC Test rankings; Iyer achieved his fourth career high in T20Is. Matthew Renshaw’s 190 in Durban and Josh Hazlewood’s 6/49 catulted the Australians up the rankings, while Shreyas Iyer’s maiden T20I century took them to fourth place.
Renshaw and Hazlewood climb ICC Test rankings; Iyer reaches fourth career high in T20Is (Source: BCCI) The ICC has released updated player rankings after a busy period in international cricket, with Australia’s Matthew Renshaw and Josh Hazlewood among the top players in the Test batting and bowling rankings. India’s Shreyas Iyer, on the other hand, reached a personal milestone in the T20I batting rankings with a dominant performance in Lucknow. Renshaw’s first innings stand of 190 in Durban, combined with a second innings contribution of 82, was the standout batting performance of the Australia v South Africa Test.
These results placed the left-hander well outside the top 100 at 49th in the ICC Men’s Test batting rankings, as confirmed by the ICC website. Marnus Labuschagne is also making progress, moving up four places to 34th. For South Africa, opener Aiden Markram moved up four positions to 10th, while Anrich Nortje re-entered the Test bowling rankings at 34th, marking his first red-ball pearance in over three years.
Hazlewood’s score of 6/49 on the final day in Durban represented the best bowling figures of his Test career. This performance moved him up two places to seventh among Test bowlers worldwide. Mitchell Starc continues to top the list of Test bowlers.
Hazlewood’s efforts were crucial in Australia securing the result and his ranking award reflects that influence. Which other players moved up the Test rankings after Durban and Abu Dhabi? Overall, Ravindra Jadeja retains the top spot in the ICC Men’s Test Rankings for this category.
South African Wiaan Mulder moved up one place to fourth and Simon Harmer gained five positions to tie for 23rd. A separate Test in Abu Dhabi between Afghanistan and Bangladesh, which ended in a draw, resulted in a number of ranking changes. Rahmat Shah was the tallest player among batters, climbing 13 places to 13th in the batting rankings.
Litton Das of Bangladesh moved up three places to 29th. In the bowling chart, Hasan Mahmud advanced seven places to 38th after claiming a hat-trick and finishing with five wickets across the match, underlining his value as a pace oon for Bangladesh in red-ball cricket. How did Iyer reach fourth place in the T20I rankings and where does India rank in the top four?
Shreyas Iyer’s maiden T20I century, scored in the opening match of India’s five-match home series against the West Indies in Lucknow, took him to a career-best fourth position in the ICC men’s T20I batting rankings. The century earned him three places in the rankings thanks to a strong individual performance in the series opener. Iyer’s arrival in the top four means India now occupies three of those spots.
Ishan Kishan tops the T20I batting charts with Abhishek Sharma at the second spot. Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan is in third place after producing a career-best performance in his team’s series against Sri Lanka. Iyer’s fourth-place finish completes a strong showing for Indian batters across the format.
