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Jasprit Bumrah, the national cricket team of India, has achieved a great feat in the history of Indian cricket. He became the first bowler for his country to surpass 904 rating points in the ICC rankings for bowlers in the longest format of the game.
Jasprit Bumrah surpassed Ravichandran Ashwin’s 904 rating points, which he achieved off-spinner in December 2016, to become the highest-scoring Indian Test bowler in the history of the rankings ICC. Well, now the first pacer has overtaken him.
Jasprit Bumrah did his best with the ball at MCG
Jasprit Bumrah achieved the feat after his impressive effort with the ball during the recently concluded fourth test against the Australian national cricket team. The match between the two teams took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne and saw the hosts win by a margin of 184 runs.
Jasprit Bumrah was at his best with the ball during the match. Although the fast bowler made a few runs in the first innings, he made sure he picked up the wickets and ended up picking up four wickets and helping his team get wickets at the crucial stage of the match.
Jasprit Bumrah gave his best with the ball in the second innings as he picked another five-wicket haul, adding to his haul in the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The fast bowler has taken 30 wickets in the series, and with one more match to go, he is expected to take a few more.
Jasprit Bumrah’s 907 Test runs are joint 17th on the all-time list, with England’s Derek Underwood. Based on his impressive effort with the ball in the 2024 Tests, the fast bowler has been nominated for the ICC Cricketer of the Year and the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year.
Pat Cummins becomes Test cricket’s No.3 bowler and No.3 Test all-rounder
Apart from Jasprit Bumrah, Australian national cricket team skipper Pat Cummins jumped 15 rating points after picking 6 wickets in the Boxing Day Test. He is now the No. 3 bowler in the Test cricket rankings and also moved up to No. 3 in the overall Test rankings.
Marco Jansen moved up six places to five in the bowling rankings. He picked wickets in the Test against Pakistan, and it was the first time in his career that he crossed the 800 rating mark.
As for the ICC Test batsman rankings, Aiden Markram, after his 89 in the first Test against Pakistan, climbed back into the top 20 batsmen in the world. While the Indian national cricket team batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored 84 runs in two innings each, also made gains.
Yashasvi Jaiswal achieves career best ranking of 4th
Yashasvi Jaiswal jumped one stop and achieved a career best ranking of 4th. Ton-hitting Steve Smith climbed three places to seventh, Saud Shakeel (up three places to a career-best sixth) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (20 places to 53rd) also make gains in the rankings of baptism of the test.
Afghanistan batsmen Rahmat Shah (21 places to 52) and Hashmatullah Shahidi (25 places to 57), who surpassed the highest Test scores for Afghanistan with their double hundreds, also achieved gains after his great effort with the bat. series against Zimbabwe.
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