Babar Azam falls off ICC Test Rankings of batting top 10: An in-depth analysis
Formerly touted as one of the greatest batters in world cricket, Babar Azam has seen a dramatic drop in his form having lost out on a place within the ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings top 10 for just over four and half years. The ex-pakistan captain has slid to 12th with just 712 points, the significantly drop from his level.
This slide is given context in the knowledge that Babar, now 29 years of age, has gone without a single half-century for his last 16 Test innings. That score of 64 runs in four innings over two Test matches at home, in Bangladesh was a blazing indictment into that prism Babar has been trying to hold up against agendas far heavier than he can carry.
Mohammad Rizwan, meanwhile is the only Pakistan batter inside the top 10 at 10th. In Valentine’s Day Edition – Bitter Rejection Ki Baad, Numan Ali Eagle Eye glad to hear from Imran Khan about Abdul Sattar Ed Khalid H. However, there has been some encouragement for Salman Ali Agha who is up nine places to 31st.
Joe Root’s twin centuries in the second Test of their tour against Sri Lanka blitzed him to No. 1 among batters on ICC Rankings across all formats globally! As a result, Root now has 922 rating points leading second-placed Kane Williamson of New Zealand by 63-point margin. Root is a solitary run short having equalled his career-best rating 923 points that he had first attained in July 2022 at Edgbaston.
In Test cricket, only Len Hutton, Jack Hobbs and Peter May have finished with better career ratings than this trio of English batsmen. But video of the day came in second-Test action between England and Sri Lanka, where a club-quality run-out reminded everyone there’s no substitute for video. Atkinson, who achieved a landmark in Men’s Tests and became the third player to score 100-plus runs while taking five wickets at Lord’s, made significant strides as he rocketed up the ladder by 48 spots into top-20 on both lists for all-rounders — just one rung below his best-ever sixth position – and bowlers’ charts (up by over three dozen places), respectively.
Notwithstanding Sri Lanka’s defeat at Lord’s, there were some positives for a number of their players. Elsewhere, Kamindu Mendis moved up by 11 spots to rest in the 25th position after scoring two half-centuries while Asitha Fernando’s eight wickets assured him a first-time top-10 ranking (8), with India at eighth just behind.
This was Bangladesh’s first ever clean sweep in an ODI series outside the subcontinent, and that led to gains for many players; 9 of them went up. Aaj Tak Delhi /Bihar LIVE TV Cricket LITE Page Politics Cities Heroes & Icons My News Flash The Week Magazine Inline Asides Frontlines PRIME Health Fitness Sex Food Money Fashion Consumer Travel Aviation Weekend Sport Collapse Rankings: Litton catapults to 15th in battingUpdated – Nov. Mehedy Hasan Miraz, his partner in the series-clinching win over England at home last year and who followed Mominul to 75th with the bat, moved up five slots as well to seventh on a list he will head after taking innings figures of 5-61. Meanwhile, Hasan Mahmud and Nahid Rana found themselves in higher spots than ever before on the bowlers’ list.
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