ICC Test Rankings / Rishabh Pant's charm continues even without playing, Rohit and Virat far behind

ICC Test Rankings: Team India's wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant is currently running out of Team India. He had a car accident on 30 December 2022, in which he was badly injured. Now he has recovered to a great extent and is currently in NCA. It should be expected that he will soon return to Team India and will be seen playing in the same way as he used to play before. Rishabh Pant played his last Test match in December itself, when the Indian team toured Bangladesh. After this the accident happened. Now it has been almost seven months without him playing, but the interesting thing is that he remains at number ten in the ICC Test rankings.

Rishabh Pant is at number ten in the ICC Test rankings

By the way, Kane Williamson has become the number one batsman in the ICC Test rankings. But there is only one Indian player in the top 10. He is Rishabh Pant whose rating is 758. In his absence, Team India first played four Tests at home from Australia and then played the final of the World Test Championship, but even after that no Indian player has been able to beat him. While Rishabh Pant is at number ten, Rohit Sharma is at number 12 with a rating of 729. Virat Kohli has a rating of 700 and is at number 14. That is, the difference is not much, but it is not less either.

Test series between India and West Indies will start from July 12

Now Team India will enter the first test against West Indies from July 12, in which Rishabh Pant is not there, but Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will be seen playing. In the two-match series, all the players will get three to four innings, so it should be expected that Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will not only leave Rishabh Pant behind by playing big innings, but will also be able to make their entry in the top 10. Will go But for this he will have to play at least two big innings.

Such is the performance of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the last five Tests.

Talking about Rohit Sharma, in the first match of the series played against Australia, he scored 120 runs with his bat, but after that he could not play even a single 50-run innings. In the second test, he was dismissed after scoring 32 and 31 runs. At the same time, he could score 12 runs in the first innings of the third match and the same number of runs in the second innings as well. He was dismissed for 35 runs in an innings of the fourth match. Similar was the case with the final of the World Test Championship. When he was dismissed for 15 and 43 runs. Virat Kohli scored 12 runs in the first match of that series. In the second match, he played innings of 44 and 20 runs. He scored 22 and 13 runs in the third match. This was followed by an inning of 186 runs with his bat in the last match against Australia. His 14 and 49 with the bat came in the WTC final. Means only one century. Now it has to be seen how these two players perform in the series against West Indies.