James Anderson, Joe Root and Gary Ballance have achieved career-best rankings in the ICC Test Rankings, after inspiring England to a nine-wicket win over the West Indies in the second Test.
Anderson has been rewarded with a jump of three places for fine bowling performance in Grenada and he is now alongside Australia’s Ryan Harris in second position. This is Anderson’s career-best ranking to date, while his rating of 826 is also his Test best.
Root not only won the player of the match award but has also been rewarded with a jump of five places that has put him in a career-best fifth position, at 865 ratings points. He is enjoying his career-high rating with fourth-ranked Steven Smith firmly within his sights.
Ballance is the other England player to achieve a career-high ranking. His scores of 77 and 81 not out have pushed him up five places to 17th in the latest rankings.
Alastair Cook 27th (up by two places), Marlon Samuels 28th (up by three places), Darren Bravo 32nd (up by two places) and Kraigg Brathwaite 34th (up by eight places) have also gained places.
The batting table is headed by Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara, with South Africa’s AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla are sitting second and third, respectively.
By: ICC
