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Team India Retain Top Spot In Annual ICC Test Rankings

Mumbai, May 13, 2021: Indian cricket team under the leadership of Virat Kohli, is continuing to dominate the longest format of the game. In the latest annual ICC Test Rankings, announced on Thursday, India gained one point and finished on top spot with 121 points. ## It is the fifth continuous year when India ends with the top spot. The latest rankings update rates all the Tests played since May 2020 at 100 percent while the Tests played over the course of the previous two years are rated at 50 percent. ## India have registered their second successive Test series win in Australia, after beating the hosts 2-1 earlier this year, and then followed it up with a 3-1 win over England at home to consolidate their position at the top of the rankings. ## Meanwhile, New Zealand, who will against India in the first-ever ICC World Test Championship Final next month in England, are on the second spot with 120 points to their name. England at number three with 109 rating points followed by Australia and Pakistan at number 4 and 5 with 108 and 94 points respectively. ## Stay tuned...

India Retain ICC Test Championship Mace Cricket
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India Retain ICC Test Championship Mace

Team India retained the ICC Test Championship Mace for the third consecutive years after topping the ICC Test Rankings on the cut-off date of 1 April. After the historic series win against Australia, India made sure that Test Championship Mace isn't going anywhere soon.## Virat Kohli led Team India will be awarded 1 million dollars for retaining number one spot with 116 points while New Zealand and South Africa will be given 5 Lakh dollars and 2 Lakh dollars for securing number two and three positions with 108 and 105 points respectively.## “Retaining the ICC Test Championship Mace once again is something we are all really proud of. Our team has been doing well across formats but it gives us extra pleasure to come out on top of the Test rankings. We all know of the importance of Test cricket and of how only the best can prosper in the format," Virat Kohli said.## “Our team has a lot of depth and I am sure this will stand us in good stead once the ICC World Test Championship commences later this year. That is again something we are really looking forward to as it adds more context to Test match cricket,” he added.## On the other hand, New Zealand skipper was all pumped up as his side reaches to number two for the first time in their history of test cricket. New Zealand has shown great consistency since the last year and beat England at home before a historic series win against Pakistan in UAE. Their most recent series win came against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at home.## “It’s an awesome achievement for our side to finish second in the ICC Test Team Rankings and as a team, we should be very proud. It’s come off the back of a lot of hard work and perseverance; not just by the eleven guys on the field, but the entire squad and support staff.## “It’s been especially pleasing to see the consistency we’ve shown in the longest form of the game over a decent period of time. We’re now all really looking forward to the ICC World Test Championship getting underway and the added context the competition will bring,” Williamson said.## Follow for more...

Virat and Bumrah topped in ICC's latest ODI Rankings Cricket
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Virat and Bumrah topped in ICC's latest ODI Rankings

Indian skipper Virat Kohli remained on the top spot in latest ICC MRF Tyres ODI batting Ranking with 909 points while his teammate, pacer Jasprit Bumrah topped in bowling ranking with 787 points.## England's Jason Roy, Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow were also the gainers in batting ranking. Roy who was the highest run-getter in recently concluded series against Australia enters in top 20 while Bairstow moved up 4 places to 11.## England's wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler who was the Man Of The Series against Australia gained two positions and moved up to 16 while Alex Hales and skipper Eoin Morgan benefitted too. But their Test skipper, Joe Root didn't have good series with the bat as he had scored only 104 runs in 5 innings and resulted in, he slipped 3 spots to 6.## England's spin twin, Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid who played an important role in their 5-0 win, moved up to 13th and 9th position respectively in bowlers rankings. The duo shared 12 wickets each in 5 matches with remarkable economy rates of 5.09 and 5.60 respectively.## Australia didn't have an ideal result in terms of winning but their stand out performer Shaun Marsh, who slammed two centuries on his way to scoring 288 runs. That helped him re-enter the table at No.80, while Travis Head, who scored three half-centuries, reached a career-best 670 points, putting him at No.19, up by three spots.## Pakistan's Babar Azam moved up behind No.1 Virat Kohli, and Rohit Sharma (No.4) and Ross Taylor (No.5) gained too despite not being in action. While in bowling, Bumrah and Afghanistan's Rashid Khan moved up significantly at the top of the chart. Yuzvendra Chahal is at 8th position with 667 points.## Top-5 Batsman:## 1. Virat Kohli (IND) - 909 Points## 2. Babar Azam (PAK) - 813 Points## 3. David Warner (AUS) - 803 Points## 4. Rohit Sharma (IND) - 799 Points## 5. Ross Taylor (NZ) - 785 Points## Top-5 Bowlers:## 1. Jasprit Bumrah (IND) - 787 Points## 2. Rashid Khan (AFG) - 763 Points## 3. Hasan Ali (PAK) - 711 Points## 4. Trent Boult (NZ) - 699 Points## 5. Josh Hazlewood (AUS) - 696 Points## For more updates and news, stay tuned to us.## Thanks for the reading.