Ishan Kishan becomes world number one T20I batter as Travis Head tops Test rankings

India's Ishan Kishan has claimed the No. 1 T20I batter spot, dethroning teammate Abhishek Sharma. Concurrently, Australia's Travis Head reached a career-first world No. 1 ranking among Test batters, displacing England's Harry Brook in the latest ICC charts

Hyderabad: Australia batter Travis Head has moved to the top of the ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings after the England pair of Joe Root and Harry Brook had disappointing outings in the third Test against New Zealand while Ishan Kishan has replaced team-mate Abhishek Sharma at the top of the ICC Men’s T20I Batting Rankings after their two-match series in Ireland.

Root and Brook lost 31 and 14 points, respectively, as Head became the first Australian to top the Test Batting Rankings since Marnus Labuschagne conceded the top spot to Root in June 2023. Head is now on 853 rating points, just one point more than Brook, while Root has slipped to third place just one week after starting his 12th stint at the top of the rankings.

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Nottingham centurions Daryl Mitchell (up five places to 11th), Devon Conway (up 14 places to 15th) and Tom Latham (up 12 places to 31st) have all gained handsomely after their team won the ICC World Test Championship series 2-1. England opener Ben Duckett’s first innings ton has helped him move from 17th to 14th place.

Matt Henry lost one per cent of his points tally after missing the match through injury and conceded the top spot in the ICC Men’s Test Bowling Rankings back to Jasprit Bumrah only one week after grabbing it. Nathan Smith ended the series as the leading wicket-taker and is up eight places to 38th while William O’Rourke has moved up five places to 27th.

England captain Ben Stokes finished his Test career as the 34th-ranked bowler after advancing three slots in the list and as the third-ranked all-rounder after moving up two slots. He is 54th in the Test batting rankings.

In the latest weekly update that also considers performances in the first Test between the West Indies and Sri Lanka and the one-off Test between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, Sri Lanka’s Dhananjay de Silva (up six places to 21st) and West Indies’ Roston Chase (up 14 places to 79th) have moved up the batting rankings while the Windies pair of Shamar Joseph (up nine places to 14th) and Kemar Roach (up four places to 17th) as well as Zimbabwe’s Blessing Muzarabani (up six places to 19th) have gained among bowlers.

In the ICC Men’s T20I Batting Rankings, Sharma’s 11-month reign at the top has come to an end after India’s shock 2-0 series defeat in Ireland. Kishan has moved up to the top for the first time, becoming the fourth from his country to do so after Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Sharma.

Ireland’s Lorean Tucker, who got a half-century in the first match against India, has advanced four places to 77th, Harry Tector has inched up one place to 79th and Ross Adair is up six slots to 84th. Seam bowler Matthew Humphreys has moved up one place to 25th after finishing with four wickets in the series.