Marco Jansen, a South African all-rounder, has ascensioned to the summit of the bowlers’ and all-rounders’ rankings following his outstanding performance in the second game of the ICC World Test Championship series, which culminated in an enormous innings and 31-run victory over Australia.
Marco Jansen has actually made significant progress in all three lists of the ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings as a result of his tough knock of 85 and his hauls of five for 33 and one for 34. Additionally, he has risen 13 positions to secure the 56th position among batters.
Marco Jansen is the first South African bowler to occupy the top spot since Kagiso Rabada in November 2024 and the first Test all-rounder from his country to do so since Vernon Philander in August 2014.
Temba Bavuma has also made substantial progress since his game-winning 179 lifted him four positions to a career-best second place. He has the potential to become the first South African player to top the Test batting rankings since A.B. de Villiers in November 2015, and is currently trailing only Harry Brook of England.
Wiaan Mulder of South Africa has risen ten spots to 43rd in the Test rankings after finishing with five wickets, while fast bowler Scott Boland of Australia has risen three spots to sixth place after taking five wickets in two innings.
Abhishek has regained his position at the summit of the T20Is:
India’s left-handed opener, Abhishek Sharma, regained the top spot in the ICC Men’s T20I Batting Rankings on Tuesday following a blistering 35-ball century against New Zealand in Wellington. His colleague, Ishan Kishan, was relegated to third place after occupying the top position for four months. Abhishek, who was the highest-ranked individual from July 2025 to June of this year, is currently relishing his second stint at the summit.
Sanju Samson (up six places to 20th), Finn Allen (up three spots to 25th), and Glenn Phillips (up 20 spots to 37th) have all risen in the rankings as a result of their performances in the ongoing series in New Zealand.
In the interim, Mitchell Santner, the captain of the host team, has advanced seven positions to seventh. Additionally, India’s pace bowlers, Prince Yadav and Arshdeep Singh, have both risen six positions to 15th and 19 positions to 83rd, respectively.
As a consequence of their performances in the Pakistan ODI Tri-Series, which also featured Sri Lanka, England batsmen Ben Duckett and Brook have advanced six positions each to seventh and eighth positions in the ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings. Brook scored the fastest double century in the format against Sri Lanka, while Duckett scored 105 against Pakistan. Nevertheless, both endeavors were unsuccessful.
Shadab Khan, who contributed an undefeated 113 to Pakistan’s one-run victory over England in Lahore, has advanced 32 positions to 92nd. Sikandar Raza of Zimbabwe (up seven spots to 20th), Janith Liyanage of Sri Lanka (up 10 spots to 14th), Gerhard Erasmus of Namibia (up 15 spots to 45th), and Max O’Dowd of the Netherlands (up seven spots to 55th) are among the other ODI batsmen who have experienced a rise.
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Azmatullah Omarzai of Afghanistan has risen 13 positions to seventh in the ODI bowling rankings. Vernard Scholtz of Namibia has risen 9 positions to eighth, Dumith Wellalage of Sri Lanka has risen 8 positions to 19th, and Mohammad Nabi of Afghanistan has risen 14 positions to 27th. Furthermore, Nabi has advanced five positions to secure the third position among all-rounders.
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