Root is now three number position in test cricket, leaving Kohli and Labushan behind. 🏏🏏
Joe Root won the award for matching batting masterclass against India. The English captain is now in the top three, surpassing Virat Kohli and Marnus Labushan in the ICC Test batsmen's rankings.
Chennai's slow wicket-taker James Anderson has taken three places in the bowlers' rankings.
The ICC released the rankings on Wednesday after the last Test of the South Africa-Pakistan series, the first Test of the England-India series and the first Test of the Bangladesh-West Indies series.
In the first innings of the Chennai Test, Root played a great innings of 216 runs and advanced two steps. The English captain, who contributed to the team's victory and won the match, has a rating of 63 points, his highest since September 2016.
Kohli lost 10 rating points. He dropped to five with 752 rating points. And Labushen's rating point dropped to 4th place.
This is the first time since November 2016 that Root has overtaken Kohli. The fine-grained batsman is 36 points behind top-ranked Ken Williamson and 6 points behind Steven Smith.
Among the English batsmen, opener Dom Sibley is 11 steps ahead in the rankings. Ben Stokes is one step ahead. He is not now.
Anderson took 5 wickets in the lifeless match in Chennai. The English pacer has risen three steps in the bowlers' rankings with a rating of 628. He is 4 points behind his teammate Stuart Broad. At the top is Pat Cummins of Australia.
Jack Leach (483) and Dominic Bass (439) have the best rating points of their careers in great bowling. Three steps ahead, English left-arm spinner Leach is 36th and four steps ahead of the off-spinner base is 41st.
Rishav Pant (603) is the first Indian to touch 600 rating points in the rankings as a full-time keeper-batsman. In the first innings of the Chennai Test, he scored 91 runs and is ranked 13th in the batsmen's rankings.
Pakistan cricketers have moved up in the rankings after whitewashing South Africa. Especially the country's pacers have improved significantly.
Hasan Ali, who took 10 wickets in the Rawalpindi Test, is now 32nd in the bowlers' rankings, 21 steps ahead. Shahin Shah Afridi is now 30th, up four steps. Mohammad Abbas has advanced without playing any match, he is in the 12th position.
Mohammad Rizwan, who was the best in the series, has risen to the best 16th position in the batsmen's rankings. The keeper-batsman scored the first century of his career in the last Test of the series. Babar Azam is one step ahead at number six. Fahim Ashraf and Fawad Alam have kept improving.
Aiden Markram has improved in the batsmen's rankings for South Africa. The opener, who scored a century in the second innings of the Rawalpindi Test, is 9 steps ahead and is at No. 14. Besides, Temba Bavuma has advanced 12 steps.
The top five in the ICC Test all-rounders rankings have not changed. As usual, Ben Stokes is at the top. At number two and three are Jason Holder and Rabindra Jadeja respectively. Shakib Al Hasan is the same as before.
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