India topple Australia to claim no. 1 ICC Test Ranking spot after trumping England 4-1, Ashwin dethrones Bumrah for top bowler spot

Following their 4-1 humbling of England at home, India occupied the top spot in the newly released ICC Test Team Rankings. The jump in the red-ball rankings now has India reigning supreme in ICC Team Rankings across all formats.

Occupying a rating of 122, Rohit Sharma and Co lead the tally having two more points than Australia, and are guaranteed to keep the top spot despite the Pat Cummins-led side’s three wicket win against New Zealand to clinch the series 2-0.

India also sit atop the 2023/25 World Test Championship standings with a 68.51 point percentage from the nine games they have played so far in the ongoing cycle.

Meanwhile, in the ICC Player Rankings, Ravichandran Ashwin toppled Jasprit Bumrah to reclaim the number 1 spot in ICC Test Bowling Rankings.

India’s bowler Jasprit Bumrah with teammates, who took 6 wickets, at the end of the first innings of England during the second day of the second Test cricket match between India and England, at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, in Visakhapatnam. (PTI)

Ashwin had finished the recent series against England as the leading wicket taker with 26 wickets that included two five-wicket hauls, taking his tally to a whooping 36 in the format.

During the series, Ashwin also crossed two big milestones – making his 100th Test appearance in Dharamsala, and crossing the 500 wickets mark. The off-spinner is only the second Indian bowler to have snapped more than 500 wickets in the longest format of the game. Only Anil Kumble (619) has more.

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In the batting department, India’s openers – Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal – rose up in the Test rankings. While Rohit’s 400 runs helped him climb from the 11th spot to sixth, Jaiswal also climbed from 10th to eighth spot having finished the series as top scorer with a whooping 712 runs.

ICC Test Rankings (after India-England series)

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