New Delhi
On one hand, the Indian team is busy preparing for the Boxing Day Test and has to face Australia in Melbourne, while on the other hand, Jasprit Bumrah has created history. India’s bowling ‘captain’ Jasprit Bumrah performed brilliantly in the third match of the ICC World Test Championship series against Australia in Melbourne, taking 9 wickets. With this he has jointly become the first Indian to score the most rating points in Test history.
Bumrah created history with his strong performance in Gaba Test
By taking 9 wickets for 94 runs in the Gabba Test, he added 14 points to his rating points and now he has 904 rating points. Earlier, Ravichandran Ashwin, who recently retired, had achieved the same number of points after the fourth Test against England in Mumbai in December 2016. Bumrah has taken 21 wickets so far in the series, which has helped him extend his lead at the top of the bowling rankings to 48 rating points. Kagiso Rabada (856) and Josh Hazlewood (852) are at second and third place.
Ravichandran Ashwin still included in top-5
Mohammed Siraj has moved up one place to 24th in the list and Travis Head has joined the top 100 in the list of bowlers. Australian team captain Pat Cummins is at fourth place with 822 points and retired Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is at 5th place with 789 points. Ravindra Jadeja has lost 4 places and is now at number 10. Mitchell Starc is at 11th, while Nathan Lyon is at number 7. Matt Henry is at sixth, Sri Lanka’s Prabhat Jayasuriya is at 8th and Pakistan’s Nowan Ali is at 9th.
5 bowlers who scored the most test rating points
It is important to mention here that Sydney Burns of England holds the world record. In 1914, he had scored 932 points, whereas George Lohman of England is at second place with 931 points. Pakistan’s world-winning captain Imran Khan is at third place in this special list of Test history with 922 points. Sri Lanka’s great spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is at fourth place with 920 points and Australia’s Glenn McGrath is at 5th place with 914 points.
