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Joe Root Clinches #1 Spot In ICC Test Rankings

Former English skipper Joe Root has regained the top spot in the latest ICC rankings. The right-handed batter has toppled Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne to be the highest-ranked Test batter in the world. The English star has been on a roll in 2022 managing over four centuries this calendar year. He also recorded his 27th Test hundred during England’s’ latest over New Zealand at Trent Bridge. Root recently breached the 10,000 Test runs landmark, becoming the second ever English batter to do so which sees him leap frog Labuschagne to be the number 1 ranked batter in Test Cricket.

Check out the tweet by ICC for Joe Root

Joe Root is the new No.1 Test batter 🔥

The England stalwart scales the @MRFWorldwide ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings summit 🤩

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— ICC (@ICC) June 15, 2022

The 31-year-old finds himself sitting on the top spot in ICC ranking with a total of 897 rating points against his name. Labuschagne, on the other hand sits on the 2^nd place, just five points away from matching the Englishman’s tally.

Root is currently in a part of the English team that’s hosting New Zealand. He has the opportunity to extend his lead on the top with his team set to play one remaining Test against the Kiwis which will be followed up with a one-off Test against India and three Test matches against South Africa in the upcoming months.

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Labuschagne, on the other hand, will be touring Sri Lanka with the Aussies taking on the islandic nation in two Test matches during their World Test Championship series. He will be eager to regain his position right on the top. But he will have a difficult time in doing so, given the number of Test matches, Root has coming up.

Check out ICC’s tweet for Test player rankings:

🔹Joe Root reclaims No.1 spot 🥇
🔹Trent Boult bursts into top 10 🔥

Plenty of movement in the @MRFWorldwide ICC Test Player Rankings after the second #ENGvNZ match 👉 https://t.co/J6m5cEKRSA pic.twitter.com/CqV1mlBMmF

— ICC (@ICC) June 15, 2022

Steve Smith finds himself behind fellow countrymen in third place of the latest Test rankings, with Babar Azam sandwiched between the former Aussie captain and New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson at the fourth spot.  The latest ICC rankings saw NZ star Daryl Mitchell making the biggest jump on the table moving 33 places. The batter scored of 190 and 69* in the second Test at Trent Bridge getting to the 17th rank.

Moving on the bowlers, NZ star Kyle Jamieson slipped three places on the sixth position while Jasprit Bumrah, Shaheen Afridi and Kagiso Rabada all moved up by a spot. Jamieson’s fellow teammate Trent Boult was awarded for his solid outing against England as he jumped four places up while Tim Southee was left out of the top 10 after being pushed down by five positions.

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