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Thursday, December 31, 2015

2015 ICC Test Player Rankings Thursday Dec 31,2015

Steven Smith and Ravichandran Ashwin have finished calendar year 2015 as the top-ranked batsman and bowler respectively in the ICC Test Player Rankings, which were released on Thursday Dec 31,2015 following the conclusion of the Boxing Day Tests in Durban and Melbourne

ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers

Ravichandran Ashwin has achieved the number-one spot for first time in his career
Ravichandran Ashwin, who started the year at No. 15, finishes the year as the most successful bowler with 62 wickets in nine Tests. In the process, he has now become the first Indian bowler since Bishen Bedi in 1973 to achieve the milestone of finishing the year in number-one Test position.In fact, Bedi was the only Indian bowler to ever top the Test bowling table, while Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, Kapil Dev and Anil Kumble all peaked at number-two during their careers.
 
Ravichandran Ashwin, for the second time in three years, has also finished the year as the number-one ranked Test all-rounder

ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers

RankPlayerCountryPoints
1Ravichandran AshwinIndia871
2Dale SteynSouth Africa867
3Stuart BroadEngland859
4Yasir ShahPakistan846
5James AndersonEngland838
6Ravindra JadejaIndia789
7Trent BoultNew Zealand787
8Josh HazlewoodAustralia752
9Vernon PhilanderSouth Africa739
10Tim SoutheeNew Zealand731

 ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen
In the ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen, Williamson, Root, de Villiers, Smith and David Warner all had a chance to finish the year as the number-one ranked Test batsman after they were separated by 26 points in the lead up to the final Tests of the year. While Williamson was busy in the ODI series against Sri Lanka, Root scored 24 and 73, de Villiers made 49 and 37 and Warner chipped in with 23 and 17.

Steve Smith, who last week won the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Cricketer of the Year as well as the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year award, had entered the Melbourne Test in fourth position. However, after scoring 134 and 70 against West Indies, the 26-year-old has leapfrogged Kane Williamson, Joe Root and AB de Villiers to the top spot.
 
Steve Smith, who was also named in the ICC Test and ODI Teams of the Year, is the third Australia batsman in the last decade after Ricky Ponting (2005 and 2006) and Michael Clarke (2012) to finish the year as the number-one ranked batsman. Other batsmen since 2005 to finish the year as the top batsman are Kumar Sangakkara (2007, 2010 and 2011), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2008), Gautam Gambhir (2009) and de Villiers (2013 and 2014).

ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen

RankPlayerCountryPoints
1Steven SmithAustralia899
2Kane WilliamsonNew Zealand889
3Joe RootEngland888
4AB de VilliersSouth Africa877
5David WarnerAustralia827
6Younis KhanPakistan826
7Angelo MathewsSri Lanka808
8Hashim AmlaSouth Africa774
9Misbah-ul-HaqPakistan764
Alastair CookEngland764

   

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