DUBAI – Virat Kohli on Sunday topped the ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen after his brilliant century against England in the opening Test at Edgbaston this week.
No Pakistan player made to the top ten batsmen of the latest rankings list.
Kohli became the seventh India batsman and first since Sachin Tendulkar (in June 2011) to be ranked the number one Test batsman in the latest ICC ranking released today.
India skipper scored 149 and 51 in India’s 31-run defeat and has gone up by 31 points, which have helped him to end Steve Smith’s 32-month reign as the top-ranked batsman and reach the top of the summit for the first time in his 67-Test career.
The 29-year-old now leads Smith (who had held the top spot since December 2015) by five points but will have to maintain the form in the remaining four Tests to finish the series as the world’s highest-ranked batsman.
