International Cricket Council has updated the bowler test rankings. England fast bowler James Anderson has regained the top spot at the age of 40. He is just phenomenal in the ongoing test series against New Zealand. Anderson took seven wickets against New Zealand at Mount Maunganui last week as England won the match by 267 runs. After that, Anderson once again topped the ICC Test rankings at the age of 40.
However, Anderson has 866 ratings and surpassed Australian skipper Pat Cummins to become the no. 1 bowler in the test. Cummins was the number-one bowler in Tests for four years. He has lost two places and has come in third position. At the same time, India’s star spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is in second place with 864 ratings.
This is the sixth time that Anderson has topped the Test rankings. He reached the number-one spot in the Test rankings for the first time in May 2016. After this, in 2018, he was the top Test bowler for five months. Now Anderson has made a strong comeback again. He is behind only Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne in terms of taking the most wickets in Tests. Anderson has 682 Test wickets, Shane Warne has 708, and Muttiah Muralitharan has taken 800 Test wickets.
Apart from Ashwin, India’s Ravindra Jadeja has also gained in the ICC rankings. Jadeja is on the 9th spot with 763 ratings, and he jumped 6 spots after the wonderful performance in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Test series.
ICC Test Bowling Ranking
1:- J.M. Anderson ENG
2:- R. Ashwin IND
3:- P.J. Cummins AUS
4:- O.E. Robinson ENG
5:- J.J. Bumrah IND
