It is time for a change in leadership in the ICC Test batting rankings, with India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant taking the number two position from his teammate Virat Kohli, and New Zealand all-rounder Rachin Ravindra making it to the list of top 20 batters.
Pant scored 20 and 99 in the first Test against New Zealand at Bengaluru that has catapulted him three places to sixth in the latest update to rankings for Test batters from Kohli, who is now at joint eighth.
England batsman Joe Root remains in great position at the top as a troika of Yashasvi Jaiswal - at third spot - has joined Pant and Kohli in the elite field as only players from India in the top 10 on the list.
Ravindra has risen 36 places to 18th place from a New Zealand point of view on scores of 134 and 39 not out as the visitors won their first Test in India since 1988. Opener Devon Conway has moved up 12 places to 36th place.
Matt Henry, who took eight wickets too, has climbed two places to ninth position with a career-best rating of 751. Another fast bowler, William O'Rourke, whose seven scalps were taken on the same day as Henry's, has also moved up two places to 39.
The opener Ben Duckett inches closer to breaking into the top 10 after rising three places to equal 11th on the Test batters rankings with a knock of 114 ahead of the decider of the series between England and Pakistan at Rawalpindi.
Pakistan all-rounder Salman Ali Agha moves eight places to 14th with a new career-high rating after scores of 31 and 63 from the second game, which the visitors won to end a drought of Test wins at home.
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