Good Day For India In ICC Test Rankings As Kohli Climbs To 3rd Among Batsmen & Jadeja Is 4th For All-Rounders

A week after he moved to fourth spot, India's Test captain Virat Kohli has attained a career-high third place in the latest ICC Test rankings for batsmen. Kohli's scores of 62 and 6* during India's eight-wicket win over England in the third Test in Mohali moved him up a spot and gave the 28-year-old 833 points.

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Ravindra Jadeja's Man-of-the-Match showing in Mohali (90 and four wickets) has moved him up two spots to a career-best fourth in the allrounders' list. R Ashwin remains the No 1 ranked allrounder with 493 points, a tally not reached by anyone since Jacques Kallis in 2008.

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Mohammed Shami's five wickets in Mohali earned him a promotion from No 21 to No 19 in the bowlers' list.

Kohli is now just 14 points adrift of the second-ranked Test batsman, England's Joe Root, with two Tests to play between the teams. Kohli had entered the best-of-five series against England at 15th place on the ICC List and has soared on the basis of 405 runs so far. Australian captain Steve Smith is at No 1.

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Also making solid upwards movement is England wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow - also the leading run-getter in Tests this year - who went up three places to a career-best ranking of nine.