Proteas Test hero rises in the ICC Rankings
Proteas allrounder Wiaan Mulder has advanced 27 places to 65th position in the ICC rankings for bowlers after the second Test against the West Indies.
Player of the Match Wiaan Mulder has advanced 27 places to 65th position in the ICC rankings for bowlers after the Proteas allrounder finished with six wickets for South Africa in the second Test against the West Indies in Guyana.
Meanwhile off-spinner Dane Piedt is up nine places to 66th after claiming two West Indies wickets in the second innings of the match.
Proteas and Windies bowlers make gains
Fast bowler Jayden Seales of the West Indies has moved up to a career-best 13th position in the ICC Men’s Test Bowling Rankings after finishing as the most successful bowler.
Seales, who finished with nine wickets in a 40-run loss that helped South Africa win the ICC World Test Championship series 1-0, has moved up 13 places to become the top-ranked Test bowler from the West Indies.
Spinners Jomel Warrican (52nd) and Gudakesh Motie (64th) have advanced two spots each while fast bowler Shamar Joseph has progressed 11 spots to 54th in other significant movements for the West Indies players in the bowling rankings.
Batters inch up the ICC Rankings
In the Test batting rankings, Proteas opener Aiden Markram and wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne have gained after notching half-centuries in the second innings. Markram inched up two places to 21st while Verreynne has progressed from 62nd to 46th.
Former West Indies captain Jason Holder is up seven places to 60th position in the batting rankings following his knock of 54 not out in the first innings. He is also up two places to fifth in the list of all-rounders.
In the ICC Men’s ODI Batting Rankings, Scott Edwards of the Netherlands has moved up six places to 26th position after scores of 72 versus Canada and 65 versus the USA in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2.
Aaron Jones of the USA (up 11 places to 56th) and Vikramjit Singh of the Netherlands (up nine places to 79th) are others to move up the batting rankings while Aryan Dutt of the Netherlands is up five places to 33rd.
In the ICC World Test Championship, South Africa are in fifth position with 38.89 percentage points after six matches while the West Indies are last in the nine-team championship with 18.52 after nine.
India lead the table with 68.52 percentage points after nine matches and Australia in second place with 62.50 after 12 outings. New Zealand and Sri Lanka are the other teams ahead of South Africa.
Are the ICC Rankings an accurate reflection of form?
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