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Jasprit Bumrah is No. 1 ranked ICC Take a look at bowler
The ‘Kohinoor of Indian cricket’ Jasprit Bumrah hit a never-seen-before excessive in Indian cricket as he went previous Ravichandran Ashwin’s ICC Take a look at rankings document for bowlers. Bumrah completed shed the 12 months 2024 with 71 wickets to his title within the longest format, with the figures taking him to absolutely the high of wicket-takers charts within the 12 months. Courtesy of his exemplary performances final 12 months, the Indian tempo icon recorded the highest-ever score factors tally achieved by an Indian bowler as he consolidated his place on the high of the ICC Males’s Take a look at Bowling Rankings after one other profitable Take a look at in Melbourne that noticed him end with a nine-wicket match haul.
Bumrah, who’s shortlisted for the ICC Males’s Cricketer of the 12 months award for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy and likewise the ICC Males’s Take a look at Cricketer of the 12 months award, has moved up from his earlier tied excessive of 904 with Ravichandran Ashwin. His tally of 907 score factors now locations him joint-Seventeenth within the all-time checklist with yesteryear spinner Derek Underwood of England.
Bumrah nonetheless stays just a few locations shy of the worldwide all-time charts. The checklist is led by England seamers Sydney Barnes (932) and George Lohmann (931) who performed greater than a century in the past whereas Imran Khan (922) and Muttiah Muralidaran (920) are third and fourth.
In the meantime, Australia captain Pat Cummins, who’s joint-fifth with Glenn McGrath in that checklist with 914 score factors, is one other one to realize within the newest rankings replace after serving to win the fourth match of their ICC World Take a look at Championship sequence in opposition to India in Melbourne.
He additionally secured a 3rd place within the Take a look at all-rounder rankings after he notched up 90 important runs throughout two innings throughout Australia’s 184-run win within the fourth Take a look at.
India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 82-run first-innings knock within the Boxing Day Take a look at noticed him leap a spot to a career-best fourth with 854 score factors, whereas Nitish Kumar Reddy’s maiden Take a look at century leapfrogged him 20 locations to 53rd within the Take a look at batting rankings.
With inputs from ICC Launch and PTI
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