ICC Test Rankings: Australian team repeats history; This ‘coincidence’ happened after 39 years

Australian batsmen have repeated history in the Test rankings by defeating India in the final of the World Test Championship. Also, Australian batsmen have reached the top spot. Even earlier such a unique coincidence happened in the year 1984. That is, after 39 years, Australia’s batsmen repeated the history.

Marnus Labuschagne has retained his place at number one in the Test batting rankings. Steve Smith managed to secure his position at the second position. Apart from this, Travis Head is at number three. Head played a brilliant knock of 163 in the final of the World Test Championship. Also, the last time such a unique coincidence happened in December 1984 when 3 batsmen from the same team finished in the top 3 in the Test rankings.

All three from the same team are included in the Test ranking list
In fact, in 1984, West Indies’ Gordon Greenidge (810), Clive Lloyd (787), and Larry Gomes (773) ranked No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 respectively. Also, talking about the latest Test rankings, apart from these 3 Australian batsmen, Usman Khawaja is also included in the top 10. Khawaja is ranked 9th in the Test batting rankings. That is, this time 4 Australian batsmen have succeeded in making their place in the Test batting rankings.

A unique stat repeats itself after nearly 39 years in the latest @MRFWorldwide ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings 🤯

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— ICC (@ICC) June 14, 2023

Along with this, if we talk about other batsmen in the batting order, Kane Williamson is at the fourth position. Pakistan’s Babar Azam managed to secure his position at number five. Joe is present on route number 6 and Daryl Mitchell on route 7. Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne is ranked 8th. Usman Khawaja is ranked 9th while India’s Rishabh Pant is ranked 10th. Pant is the only Indian batsman to have made it to the top 10 in the Test batting rankings.

Also, talking about the bowler rankings, Ravichandran Aswin remains at the top spot in the ICC rankings. However, the injured Jasprit Bumrah slipped to the eighth position in the bowlers’ list. Ravindra Jadeja is appearing on 9 sequences.

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ICC Test Rankings: Australian team repeats history; This ‘coincidence’ happened after 39 years
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