Root back as No.1 in ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings

London: England’s star batter Joe Root has reclaimed the top position in the ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings within a week of losing it to fellow Yorkshire player Harry Brook while Scott Boland has attained a career best as five Australians are now in the top 10 of the bowling rankings.

Root’s scores of 104 and 40 in the third Test of the five-match ICC World Test Championship (WTC) series against India at Lord’s that the home side won by 22 runs to take a 2-1 lead, see him start his eighth stint at the top. At the age of 34, he is the oldest No. 1 Test batter since Kumar Sangakkara in December 2014, when the Sri Lankan was 37.