R Ashwin Reaches No.1 Spot In ICC Test Ranking Of Bowlers, A Look At Top 10 List

India is facing Australia in the third Test of the four-match series under Border-Gavaskar trophy. Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss ane elected to bat first but it did not go well in the favour of Indians.

Team India bundled out on 109 runs in 33.2 overs. Meanwhile, the star Indian batter R Ashwin has attained the number one ranking in ICC Test Bowling ranking beating the England great James Anderson the . The veteran off-spinner has now 864 points to his name

James Anderson has fallen down to one ranking and has 859 rating points. Apart from Ashwin, the star Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah is also among the top 5 bowlers. Bumrah has been out from the team for five months but carries a rating point of 795.

Talking about this series, Ashwin has been banger in both of the previous matches. The bowler had 14 wickets to his name before the start of the third Test, only behind Jadeja who has 18.

Talking about the top 10 bowlers in the ICC Test ranking, Pat Cummins (858) is at third position, Shaheen Afridi(787) is at fourth after Jasprit Bumrah at four.

The sixth and seventh position was retained by Ollie Robinson(785) and Kagiso Rabada(776) followed by Ravindra Jadeja(763) at eight.

Kyle Jamieson of New Zealand holds the 9th position with 757 rating points and Mitchell Starc is at 10 with 735 rating points.

India has already won the first two tests of this series and now look settled to making their place in the finals of ICC Test Championship.

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