IND v BAN 2019: Mohammad Shami and Mayank Agarwal attain career-best ICC rankings after Indore Test heroics

India won the Indore Test against Bangladesh by an innings and 130 runs.

Mayank Agarwal was named Man of the Match for his amazing 243 which included 8 sixes | FPJIndia defeated Bangladesh by an innings and 130 runs and it was because of a combined effort of batsmen and the amazing bowling attack that the Virat Kohli-led Indian team possesses. Bangladesh could only manage 150 and 213 in two innings in reply to India’s 493/6d.

This was possible because of Mayank Agarwal’s career-best 243 runs which contained a record 8 sixes, the joint-most by an Indian batsman in Test cricket. This gave him the Man of the Match award and also got him to the 11th spot in the ICC Test batsman rankings. The 28-year-old has reached 691 rating points after scoring 858 runs in his first eight Tests.

Only seven batsmen have scored more runs than Agarwal in their first eight Tests -- Don Bradman (1210), Everton Weekes (968), Sunil Gavaskar (938), Mark Taylor (906), George Headley (904), Frank Worrell (890) and Herbert Sutcliffe (872).

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Meanwhile, on the bowling front, Mohammad Shami entered the top ten bowlers’ rankings for the first time, as his figures of 3 for 27 and 4 for 31 lifted him eight places to the seventh position. His 790 rating points are the third-best for an India pace bowler with only Kapil Dev (877) and Jasprit Bumrah (832) having recorded more points.

In other significant movements, Ravindra Jadeja jumped four slots to reach the joint-35th position among batsmen while pacers Ishant Sharma (20th) and Umesh Yadav (22nd) have moved up one place each. R Ashwin moved back to no.4 spot in the ICC bowlers’ rankings.

India strengthened its position in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) standings by reaching 300 points. They are yet to concede a point, having gained a full 120 points each in their three-Test home series against South Africa and two-Test series in the West Indies.

The top two teams at the end of the league will play the final in the UK in June 2021 with the winners crowned the World Test Champions.

 
 

By Jatin Sharma - 17 Nov, 2019

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