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Lahore: England’s wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow has achieved his highest ranking to date in the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen after hitting his third career century in the Lord’s Test, which ended in a draw on Monday.
Bairstow scored a Test best 167 not out in the first innings and then followed up with 32. These scores not only won him the player of the match award, but also earned him a rise of three places. He now sits in 18th position and is the third England batsman after Joe Root and captain Alastair Cook to feature inside the top 20 of the batting table.
Bairstow had entered the three-Test series in 36th position and has gained 18 places following his series aggregate of 387 runs that has also earned him the player of the series award.
Besides Bairstow, England’s duo of Cook and Alex Hales have also made upward movements, while Root’s double failure means he has slipped two places to fourth in the latest rankings.
Cook has moved up three places to 13th following scores of 85 and 49 not out, while Hales has vaulted eight places to 62nd after scores of 18 and 94.
Sri Lanka’s openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Kaushal Silva have also made impressive gains.
Karunaratne, who scored 50 and 37 not out, has jumped four places to 33rd position, while Silva has climbed eight places to 36th following scores of 79 and 16.
Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has retained his ninth position, just one point ahead of Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq, while Dinesh Chandimal has dropped out of the top 20 after slipping two places to 21st.
Australia captain Steve Smith leads the batting table, while New Zealand captain Kane Williamson and Hashim Amla of South Africa have moved up one position each to second and third respectively, following Root’s drop from second to fourth.
In the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers, England’s Steven Finn has returned to the top 20 while Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Pradeep and Suranga Lakmal have achieved career-high rankings.
Finn took three for 59 in the first innings, for which he has been rewarded with a rise of two places that has put him in 19th position. He is now the third England bowler after number-one ranked James Anderson and third-ranked Stuart Broad to feature inside the top 20.
Pradeep, who took two for 104 and three for 37, has rocketed 10 places to 33rd, while Lakmal’s three wickets in the first innings has given him a lift of five places that has put him alongside Bangladesh’s Taijul Islam in 42ndspot.
Meanwhile, a 2-0 series win means England has gained three points and has consequently reduced the six-point gap with third-ranked Pakistan to just three points. Pakistan will be England’s next opponent when the two sides will go head to head in a four-Test series from 14 July at Lord’s.
Seventh-ranked Sri Lanka, in contrast, has slipped from 88 points to 85. This means its gap with sixth-ranked South Africa has opened up from four points to seven.
Australia is the number-one ranked Test side and will take on Sri Lanka in a three-Test series from 26 July, while India is ranked second and will square-off against eighth-ranked West Indies in a four-Test series from 21 July.
MRF Tyres ICC Test Team Rankings (as on 14 June, after Lord’s Test)
Rank Team Points
1 Australia 118
2 India 112
3 Pakistan 111
4 England 108 (+3)
5 New Zealand 98
6 South Africa 92
7 Sri Lanka 85 (-3)
8 West Indies 65
9 Bangladesh 57
Note: Zimbabwe has 12 points but has not played the required eight Test matches over the new rating period to be included on the main table. It will reflect on the table as soon as it plays two more Tests
MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings (as on 14 June, after Lord’s Test)
Batsmen (top 10)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) Steve Smith Aus 925 60.18 936 v Eng at Lord’s 2015
2 (+1) Kane Williamson NZ 868 49.23 893 v Aus at Perth 2015
3 (+1) Hashim Amla SA 860 51.45 907 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2013
4 (-2) Joe Root Eng 837 52.92 917 v Aus at Trent Bridge 2015
5 ( – ) Younus Khan Pak 826 53.94 880 v SL at Lahore 2009
6 ( – ) AB de Villiers SA 818 50.46 935 v Aus at Port Elizabeth 2014
7 ( – ) Adam Voges Aus 811*! 95.50 811 v NZ at Christchurch 2016
8 ( – ) David Warner Aus 800 50.06 880 v NZ at Perth 2015
9 ( – ) Angelo Mathews SL 765 48.70 877 v NZ at Christchurch 2014
10 ( – ) Misbah-ul-Haq Pak 764 48.89 842 v NZ at Abu Dhabi 2014
Other selected rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge HS Rating
12 (+3) Alastair Cook Eng 730 46.89 874 v Ind at Kolkata 2012
18 (+3) Jonny Bairstow Eng 695! 39.77 695 v SL at Lord’s 2016
21 (-2) D. Chandimal SL 664 44.60 690 v NZ at Dunedin 2015
33 (+4) D. Karunaratne SL 573 34.33 619 v WI at Galle 2015
36 (+8) Kaushal Silva SL 540 31.94 638 v Pak at Colombo (PSS) 2015
39 (-4) Moeen Ali Eng 533 30.75 558 v SL at Durham 2016
49 (+2) Kusal Mendis SL 466*! 30.81 466 v Eng at Lord’s 2016
62 (+8) Alex Hales Eng 405*! 32.92 405 v SL at Lord’s 2016
Bowlers (top 10)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge HS Rating
1 ( – ) James Anderson Eng 877 28.33 884 v SL at Durham 2016
2 ( – ) R. Ashwin Ind 871! 25.39 871 v SA at Delhi 2015
3 ( – ) Stuart Broad Eng 852 28.52 880 v SA at Johannesburg 2016
4 ( – ) Yasir Shah Pak 846*! 24.17 846 v Eng at Sharjah 2015
5 ( – ) Dale Steyn SA 841 22.53 909 v WI at Centurion 2014
6 ( – ) Ravindra Jadeja Ind 789*! 23.76 789 v SA at Delhi 2015
7 ( – ) Trent Boult NZ 757 29.14 825 v Eng at Lord’s 2015
8 ( – ) Josh Hazlewood Aus 741* 25.77 792 v WI at Hobart 2015
9 ( – ) Morne Morkel SA 724 29.33 776 v Aus at Cape Town 2011
10 ( – ) Vernon Philander SA 717 22.08 912 v Ind at Johannesburg 2013
Other selected rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge HS Rating
13 ( – ) Rangana Herath SL 671 30.18 851 v Pak at Colombo (SSC) 2014
19 (+2) Steven Finn Eng 593 28.33 624 v NZ at Headingley 2013
30 (-2) Moeen Ali Eng 467* 41.28 557 v SA at Durban 2015
33 (+10) Nuwan Pradeep SL 432*! 43.63 432 v Eng at Lord’s 2016
39 (+1) Shaminda Eranga SL 404* 37.49 541 v Eng at Headingley 2014
42 (+5) Suranga Lakmal SL 375*! 49.38 375 v Eng at Lord’s 2016
64 (+9) Chris Woakes Eng 229*! 41.25 229 v SL at Lord’s 2016
All-rounders (top five)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Rating
1 ( – ) R. Ashwin Ind 406 419 v WI at Mumbai 2013
2 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 384 419 v Zim at Khulna 2014
3 ( – ) Stuart Broad Eng 284 382 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2012
4 ( – ) Vernon Philander SA 275*/ 376 v Aus at Cape Town 2014
5 ( – ) Ben Stokes Eng 264 /* 276 v SA at Centurion 2016
