Australia’s Travis Head Wednesday jumped
five places to reach a career-high fifth position in the latest ICC Test
rankings. Head scored 101 in the first innings of the Hobart Test to finish the
Ashes series with 357 runs that won him the Player of the Series award. Head is
currently sharing the fifth spot with India’s Rohit Sharma.

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Meanwhile, India’s star batter Virat Kohli
moved up two places to seventh after he scored 79 and 29 in the recently
concluded Cape Town Test.

Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant’s unbeaten
century in the second innings of the series-deciding third Test against South
Africa lifted him 10 places to 14th, while fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah’s six
wickets in Cape Town took him back to the top 10 in the bowling chart.

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Keegan
Petersen rewarded for his stellar show against India

In the latest weekly update that takes into
account the third match of the South Africa-India series in Cape Town which the
hosts won by seven wickets to clinch the World Test Championship (WTC) series,
Keegan Petersen has shot up 68 places to 33rd after match-winning scores of 72
and 82.

He scored the maximum runs to claim the
Player of the Series award, his 276-run aggregate helping him surge up after
starting the series in the 158th position.

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Temba Bavuma (up seven places to 28th) and
Rassie van der Dussen (up 12 places to 43rd) are the other South Africa batters
to advance while fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada (up two places to third) and Lungi
Ngidi (up six places to 21st) have also made notable progress.

All-rounder Cameron Green is another
Australian player to gain after the 146-run victory that helped Australia win
the series 4-0 and climb to second in the WTC points table.

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Green was up 23 places to joint 66th after
his scores of 74 and 23 and has also moved up 13 places to 62nd in the bowlers’
list. Scott Boland has moved from 49th to 43rd with four wickets in the match.

England opener Jack Crawley has progressed
nine places to 68th after scores of 18 and 36. Among their bowlers, Stuart
Broad has moved up two places to 12th position after finishing with six wickets
in the match while Ollie Robinson (up one place to 24th) and Mark Wood (up
seven places to 31st) have also advanced.

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In the ODI player rankings that consider
performances from the last two matches of the West Indies-Ireland series and
the first two of the Sri Lanka-Zimbabwe series, Ireland off-spinner Andy
McBrine has gained 17 slots to move into the top 10 with two four-wicket hauls.

West Indies spinner Akeal Hosein has moved
up two places to joint-59th.

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In other major movements, Zimbabwe’s Sean
Williams has advanced eight places to 40th after scores of 100 and 40 and Sri
Lanka batter Kariyawasa Asalanka’s knocks of 71 and 23 have helped him move up
16 places to 52nd.