{"id":22670,"date":"2015-08-11T04:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T04:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=22670"},"modified":"2015-08-11T04:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T04:45:09","slug":"sangakarra-eyes-rankings-boost-in-final-test-series-ashwin-highest-ranked-all-rounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=22670","title":{"rendered":"Sangakarra eyes rankings boost in final Test series; Ashwin highest ranked all-rounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-21126\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kumar-Sangakkara-Test.jpg\" alt=\"Kumar Sangakkara Test\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"258\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kumar-Sangakkara-Test.jpg 258w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kumar-Sangakkara-Test-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/>Galle:<\/strong> In the ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen, fifth-placed Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakarra goes into his final Test series as the highest ranked batsman on either side on 874 points, seven adrift of South Africa&rsquo;s Hashim Amla.<\/p>\n<p>His skipper Angelo Mathews, who will make his 50th appearance next time out, lies a single place and 14 rankings points further behind, with his opposite number Kohli in 10th position, eight points behind Australia&rsquo;s Chris Rogers. Virat Kohli is now 180 runs short of the 5,000-run mark in Test cricket.\n<\/p>\n<p>Other batsmen from either side aiming for upward movements include India trio Murali Vijay (21st), Ajinkya Rahane (22nd) and Cheteshwar Pujara (25th), as will Sri Lanka trio Kaushal Silva (30th), Dimuth Karunaratne (32nd) and Dinesh Chandimal (45th).<\/p>\n<p>In the ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers, Sri Lanka&rsquo;s left-arm spinner Rangana Herath is the highest ranked bowler heading into the series in eighth place on 752 points, 13 points behind Australia&rsquo;s Mitchell Johnson. Twelfth-placed Ravichandran Ashwin, with 124 wickets in 25 Tests to date, is his side&rsquo;s leading bowler with Ishant Sharma (21st) looking to break back into the top 20. Other bowlers likely to feature in the series are; Dilruwan Perera (27th), D. Prasad (29th) and Harbhajan Singh (32nd). Umesh Yadav (47th) holds an 18-point advantage over his team-mate Bhuvneshwar Kumar (48th).<\/p>\n<p>Ashwin is also the highest-ranked all-rounder on either side heading into the series, sitting a point behind South Africa&rsquo;s Vernon Philander in third position, while Mathews is Sri Lanka&rsquo;s best all-rounder in 15th spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-21126\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kumar-Sangakkara-Test.jpg\" alt=\"Kumar Sangakkara Test\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"258\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kumar-Sangakkara-Test.jpg 258w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kumar-Sangakkara-Test-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/>Galle:<\/strong> In the ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen, fifth-placed Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakarra goes into his final Test series as the highest ranked batsman on either side on 874 points, seven adrift of South Africa&rsquo;s Hashim Amla.<\/p>\n<p>His skipper Angelo Mathews, who will make his 50th appearance next time out, lies a single place and 14 rankings points further behind, with his opposite number Kohli in 10th position, eight points behind Australia&rsquo;s Chris Rogers. Virat Kohli is now 180 runs short of the 5,000-run mark in Test cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[667,1723,466,4228,542],"class_list":["post-22670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-hashim-amla","tag-icc-player-rankings","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-kumar-sangakarra","tag-virat-kohli"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sangakarra eyes rankings boost in final Test series; Ashwin highest ranked all-rounder - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=22670\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sangakarra eyes rankings boost in final Test series; Ashwin highest ranked all-rounder - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Galle: In the ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen, fifth-placed Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakarra goes into his final Test series as the highest ranked batsman on either side on 874 points, seven adrift of South Africa&rsquo;s Hashim Amla. 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