Shubman Gill achieves career-best ranking in ICC Men’s Test

New Delhi: India captain Shubman Gill has achieved a career-best position in ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings, even as England batter Harry Brook has dethroned Joe Root to be the new top-ranked batter in the longer format.

 Gill, whose knocks of 269 and 161 made him only the second player in history to register scores of above 150 in both innings of a Test match and claim the second highest aggregate ever by a batter in Tests with 430 runs, has jumped 15 places to be at a career-best sixth position. Gill’s previous best was 14th position which he reached in September last year and started the ongoing series ranked 23rd. Brook, meanwhile, rises to top of the Test batters’ rankings following him hitting a magnificent 158 in the first innings of the second Test in Birmingham.

Brook had earlier been number one Test batter for one week in December last year and him taking the top spot in the rankings again means Root is pushed to the second spot, along with a reduction of 18 rating points.

Other batters to make notable gains after the Edgbaston Test are India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who is up six places to 39th after valuable knocks of 89 and 69 not out, and England wicketkeeper-batter Jamie Smith, who is in the top 10 for the first time after his solid innings of 184 not out and 88 lifted him 16 slots to tenth place. IANS

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