ICC Men's rankings: Jasprit Bumrah claims top spot in Test bowling list

ICC Men's Test Bowling Rankings: Jasprit Bumrah's nine-wicket haul earned him the 'Player of the Match' award in Vizag and saw him climb three places on the latest Test rankings for bowlers to claim top spot from teammate Ravichandran Ashwin.

India's premier fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah claimed the No.1 spot on the latest ICC Men's Test Bowler rankings after his tremendous performance in the second Test match against England. The right-arm quick registered match figures of 9/91 as India beat England by 106 runs to equal the Test series 1-1 in Vizag; an effort that saw the right-arm pacer become the first quick from India to claim the top spot in ICC Men's Test ranking for bowlers.

The nine-wicket haul earned Bumrah the 'Player of the Match' award in Vizag and saw him climb three places on the latest Test rankings for bowlers to claim top spot from teammate Ravichandran Ashwin.

Ashwin - who has been the number 1 bowler in Tests since March 2023 - dropped two spots to third while South Africa's pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada maintaining his second place despite sitting out the Proteas' Test series in New Zealand.

It is the first time Bumrah has held the top ranking, with the 30-year-old having never been previously higher than third despite a total of 10 five-wicket hauls for India over the course of his 34 Test match appearances.

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Two of those five-wicket hauls have come in Test matches in 2024 for Bumrah, with the India pacer collecting figures of 6/61 against South Africa in Cape Town at the start of the year and then an equally impressive spel of 6/45 in his most recent appearance against England.

Bumrah is just the fourth player from India - and first fast bowler - to top the bowling charts, with Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Bishan Bedi, the only players from the Asian country to have done so previously.