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Initially the rankings were for Test cricket only, but separate One Day International rankings were introduced in 1998. Both sets of rankings have now been calculated back to the start of those forms of the game. The rankings include the top 10 Test, ODI and T20I batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders based on the rating of each player.
Batsman Phil Salt England: Batsman Number 3 Nicholas Pooran West Indies: Batsman / Wicket-keeper: Number 4 Suryakumar Yadav India: Batsman / Captain: Number 5 Mark Chapman New Zealand: Batsman Number 6 Sikandar Raza Zimbabwe: All-rounder Number 7 Alpesh Ramjani Uganda: All-rounder Number 8 Mark Adair Ireland: All-rounder Number 9 Ravi Bishnoi India
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...
[1] [3] Prior to the introduction of the World Test Championship (WTC) Final, the mace was awarded to the team at the top of the ICC Men's Test Team Rankings. [1] [2] Since the inception of the WTC Final, the mace has been awarded to the winning team, with the New Zealand team being the first recipient under this new system. [1] [4]
The rankings system was called ICC Test Championship, until the inauguration of ICC World Test Championship in 2019. From 2003 to 2019, the top-ranked Test team was awarded with the ICC Test Championship Mace and the top team at each April 1 cut-off (until 2019) was also awarded a cash prize, the winners of which are listed below.
The 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship is an ongoing tournament of Test Cricket which is the third edition of the ICC World Test Championship.It started in June 2023 with The Ashes, which was contested between England and Australia, [1] and is scheduled to finish in June 2025 with the final match to be played between South Africa and Australia at Lord's.
Shane Warne was the first to take both 600 and 700 Test wickets, in 2005 and 2006 respectively. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Warne's haul of 96 wickets in 2005 is the highest total in a calendar year, ahead of the 90 wickets taken the following year by Muralidaran, although he played fewer innings.
A left-handed opening batsman, Warner is well known for his "aggressive" batting style. [3] As of December 2023, he has scored 49 centuries—26 in Tests, 22 in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 1 in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is)—for Australia. [1] [4] This is the most by any opener in international cricket. [5]