Pakistan is running Noman Ali has achieved a career-best second position in the ICC Men’s Test Bowling Rankings after helping his team win the first Test against South Africa in Lahore.
The left-arm spinner has moved up four places and is now just 29 rating points behind India’s Jasprit Bumrah after finishing with figures of six for 112 and four for 79 in Pakistan’s 93-run win, which helped take a 1-0 lead in the two-match ICC World Test Championship series.
Noman currently sits at a career-high of 853 rating points, becoming only the seventh from his country to cross the 850-point mark and the first since leg-spinner Yasir Shah in July 2016. Noman’s previous best was the fifth position he had achieved in January this year during a series against the West Indies, when he had reached 806 rating points.
Pakistani fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi has also made notable progress in the latest weekly rankings update as his haul of four in the second innings for 33 helped him return to the top 20, moving up three places to 19.e position.
Experienced hitter Mohammad Rizwan (up four places to 16e) and Babar Azam (up two places to 22i.e) have made progress in the batting rankings with Salman Agha (up eight places to 30e) and Imam-ul-Haq (reintroduced on 44e position) also flourishing.
For South Africa, Ryan Rickelton’s first-innings score of 71 has taken him into the top 50 for the first time, while Tony de Zorzi’s century has helped him reach 54.e position. Left-arm spinner Senuran Muthusamy, whose match distance of 11 for 174 was the best by a South African bowler in Pakistan, has risen from 93rd up to 55e in the bowling rankings.
In the ICC Men’s ODI Rankings, Bangladesh’s Towhid Hridoy rises seven places to 35e after scoring a half-century in their first ODI against West Indies in Mirpur.
Josh Hazlewood has returned to the top 10 for bowlers after his haul of two for 20 in the first ODI against India in Perth, while Indian Mohammad Siraj has re-entered at the age of 16.e position. KL Rahul has moved up one spot to 14e position in the batting rankings.
In the T20I rankings, England batsmen Phil Salt and Harry Brook are seeing gains after securing a 1-0 lead in their T20I series in New Zealand. Salt scored 85 to stay in second position, while Brook’s 35-ball innings of 78 took him to joint-20e place with a career-best 598 points.
Leg-spinner Adil Rashid, who took four for 32 in Christchurch, has moved up three places to third among bowlers.
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