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After Bangladesh's historic Test series against Pakistan, Shakib Al Hasan fell behind in both the batting and bowling rankings. However, the team won 2-0. Once again he fell behind in the ICC Test rankings, although this time his decline was due to other cricketers showing better form. At the same time, former Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal, who has been outside 22 yards for a long time, has dropped in the format batting list.
Today (Wednesday) the ICC released the weekly updated men's cricket rankings. Where there is no major change in the top ten position of batting-bowling. Shakib, who failed with the bat in the Pakistan series, dropped two steps last week, this time down to 45. 19 averaged 38 runs. Nothing much to say except an innings of 21 not out in the second innings of the second Test. Shakib currently has a batting rating of 535 in Tests.
Tamim Iqbal is expected to delay as he has been out of international cricket for a long time. He also dropped a step back in Test batting to number 52. The country's best opener has a rating of 512 points. Apart from this, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Zakir Hasan and Mehidy Hasan Miraz have dropped one step in the ranking of Test batters. Mirage climbed 10 places to No. 75 last week thanks to two fifties in the Pakistan series.
Leading this week's rankings is Pathum Nissanka, the opener who beat Sri Lanka in the last Test against England. Returning to Tests after two years, the batsman has climbed 42 places to No. 39 in the rankings. He scored 127 runs off 128 balls in the second innings of the third Test and 68 runs in the first innings of the Oval Test. The highest run-scorer in that series (375) Joe Root remains the top Test batsman ever. As usual, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell and Steve Smith are in positions 2-4 respectively.
Apart from this, Kamindu Mendis, the highest run scorer of the series (267) for the Lankans, has moved up six places to number 19 in the batsmen's list. On the other hand, in the ranking of Test bowlers, Ravichandran Ashwin, Josh Hazlewood and Jasprit Bumrah are in the top three respectively. The bowlers in the list include England's Olly Stone (up 13 places to 74th), Sri Lanka's Vishwa Fernando (up 13 places to 31st), Milan Rathnayake (up 26 places to 85th) and Lahiru Kumara (up 10 places to 32nd).
