India\u2019s spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha have made upward movements in the top 10 of Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers.<\/p>\n
While Ashwin has moved up a place to a career-best fifth with a best-ever 808 ratings points, Ojha has returned to the top 10 of the bowlers\u2019 table with a jump of four places to ninth.<\/p>\n
Ashwin picked up three for 45 and four for 89 in the two innings of the Mumbai Test, while Ojha ended with his first 10-wicket haul in Tests (10 for 89) to be named man of the match.<\/p>\n
West Indies spinner Shane Shillingford has moved up a place to 16th, in the only other positive change inside the top 20.<\/p>\n
South Africa\u2019s Dale Steyn continues to head the bowlers\u2019 table with teammate Vernon Philander in second position and Sri Lanka\u2019s Rangana Herath in third.\n<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, India\u2019s Cheteshwar Pujara has moved up two places to a career-best sixth in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen with a best-ever 801 ratings points, following his knock of 113 in the Mumbai Test.<\/p>\n
Other batsmen to move in the right direction are Virat Kohli in 21st (up by four), Murali Vijay in 42nd (up by two), Kieran Powell in 53rd (up by four) and Rohit Sharma in 58th (up by five).<\/p>\n
The batting chart continues to be headed by AB de Villiers of South Africa, with teammate Hashim Amla in second place and West Indies\u2019 Shivnarine Chanderpaul in third place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India\u2019s spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha have made upward movements in the top 10 of Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers.<\/p>\n
While Ashwin has moved up a place to a career-best fifth with a best-ever 808 ratings points, Ojha has returned to the top 10 of the bowlers\u2019 table with a jump of four places to ninth.<\/p>\n
Ashwin picked up three for 45 and four for 89 in the two innings of the Mumbai Test, while Ojha ended with his first 10-wicket haul in Tests (10 for 89) to be named man of the match.<\/p>\n
West Indies spinner Shane Shillingford has moved up a place to 16th, in the only other positive change inside the top 20.<\/p>\n
South Africa\u2019s Dale Steyn continues to head the bowlers\u2019 table with teammate Vernon Philander in second position and Sri Lanka\u2019s Rangana Herath in third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n