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Bumrah back as No. 1 Test bowler; Jaiswal moves to No. 2 in Test batting rankings
India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah is back as the No. 1 Test bowler and has also achieved his career-best rating of 883 in the ICC rankings following his match-winning haul of 8 for 72 against Australia in Perth. His team-mate Yashasvi Jaiswal, who smashed 161 in the second innings of the Test, has moved to his career-best No. 2 ranking in the batters' charts.
Bumrah, whose 5 for 30 in the main innings of the Test skittled Australia out for 104, went past South Africa's Kagiso Rabada and Australia's Josh Hazlewood. Bumrah previously rose to the top in February this year on the rear of his nine-wicket pull against Britain at home and momentarily got back to the top in October following the Bangladesh series, prior to being surpassed by Rabada lately.
His India colleague Mohammed Siraj, who took five wickets in the Perth Test, likewise made a few increases, moving three puts to 25th on the rundown for Test bowlers.
Jaiswal, in the interim, acquired two spots to move past New Zealand's Kane Williamson and Britain's Harry Stream. He likewise procured another vocation best appraising of 825 and is 78 focuses behind the No. 1-positioned Joe Root.
Australia player Travis Head went three spots up to No. 10 following his 89 in the second innings in Perth, while India's Virat Kohli acquired nine spots to move to thirteenth following his 30th Test century.
West Indies' quick bowling triplet of Jayden Seales (three spots up to eleventh), Kemar Cockroach (four spots up to seventeenth) and Alzarri Joseph (three spots up to 29th) likewise acquired in the bowlers' rankings following their exhibitions in the main Test against Bangladesh in Antigua. Seales got 5 for 87, Cockroach wrapped up with 4 for 50 and Joseph stowed figures of 5 for 101 to hand West Indies a 201-run win.
Bangladesh skipper Mehidy Hasan Miraz moved three spots to No. 3 in the allrounders' rundown following commitments with bat (23 and 45) and ball (match take of 4 for 130) in the Antigua Test. India's Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin are as yet the best two separately on the rundown in spite of not highlighting in the Perth Test.