Despite Root’s outstanding performance against Sri Lanka in the second Test, Gus Atkinson stole the spotlight with his Player of the Match efforts, resulting in significant jumps across all ranking disciplines. Atkinson moved up 48 spots into the top 20 for All-Rounders and the top 30 for bowlers, becoming only the third player in Men’s Test history to score a century and claim a five-wicket haul at the iconic venue.
Several Sri Lankan players also made positive moves in the rankings, despite losing the three-match series against England. Kamindu Mendis climbed 11 spots to 25th (635) after scoring half-centuries, while Asitha Fernando entered the top ten for the first time (8th, 734) with an eight-wicket performance.
In Pakistan, Bangladesh’s impressive clean sweep series win saw several players make gains. Litton Das’s crucial 138 runs, which rescued Bangladesh’s first innings from a precarious 26/6, propelled him 12 places to 15th on the batting rankings.
His partner in the seventh-wicket partnership of 165, Mehedy Hasan Miraz, moved up to 75th place with the bat and 7th in the all-rounders list, thanks to his figures of 5-61 in Pakistan’s first innings. Hasan Mahmud and Nahid Rana also achieved career-best rankings in bowling.
Minor changes occurred in the T20I rankings following West Indies’ last match with South Africa and the Dutch T20I tri-series involving the USA and Canada. Nicolas Pooran’s 35 runs from 13 balls pushed him up to eighth in the Batting Rankings (668), while Shai Hope continued his run, moving 32 spots up to 40th. Aiden Markram of South Africa joined Pooran in the top 10 with a one-spot move (641).
The most notable move on the bowling front was American all-rounder Harmeet Singh’s 48-spot jump, along with a 19-spot climb to 40th in the All-Rounder Rankings.
