Brook Attains Career-best Third Position In ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings

ISLAMABAD, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Jul, 2024) England batter Harry Brook has achieved a career-best third position in the ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings after notching a century in the second Test of the three-match ICC World Test Championship series against the West Indies which the home side won by 241 runs to go to 2-0 up.

Brook, who scored 36 and 109 in Nottingham, advanced four places while his team-mates Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope have also made significant gains in the latest weekly update to the men’s rankings which are carried out on Wednesdays across formats.

Left-handed opener Duckett has progressed six places to 16th position after notching scores of 71 and 76 while Player of the Match Pope has advanced from 29th to 21st with scores of 121 and 51.

Chris Woakes is back into the top 20 of the bowling rankings for the first time since September 2021 after finishing with four for 84 and two for 28 in the match while spinner Shoaib Bashir has advanced 18 slots to 53rd position after he took his third five-wicket haul in just his fifth Test.

For the West Indies, captain Kraigg Brathwaite has moved up two slots to 40th position with scores of 48 and 47 while wicketkeeper Joshua de Silva (up seven places to 61st), Jason Holder (up two places to 70th) and Kavem Hodge (up 21 places to 75th) have also made good progress.

West Indies’ new-ball bowlers Alzarri Joseph and Jayden Seales have made notable improvements to their rankings, Joseph up two places to 33rd after finishing with five wickets in the match and Seales up from 44th to 34th with six wickets.

In the ODI rankings, Namibia left-arm spinner Bernard Scholtz has attained a career-best sixth position after finishing with three for 23 against Scotland in an ICC Men’s cricket World Cup League 2 match.

Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus and Scotland’s George Munsey are among those to move up the batting rankings following their performances in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2. Erasmus is up four places to 27th and Munsey up seven places to 41st position.

In the ICC World Test Championship standings, England are placed in sixth position while the West Indies are ninth as per the percentage points that determine qualification.