After contributing wonderfully to his team’s enormous innings and 31-run victory over Australia in the second game of their ICC World Test Championship series, South African all-rounder Marco Jansen has risen to the top of the bowlers’ and all-rounder rankings.
Marco Jansen has risen in all three categories of the ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings, due to a challenging innings of 85 and hauls of five for 33 and one for 34. He has also climbed 13 ranks to 56th place among batters.
Marco Jansen is the first South African bowler to top the rankings since Kagiso Rabada in November 2024, and the first Test all-rounder since Vernon Philander in August 2014.
Captain Temba Bavuma has also made great progress since his game-winning 179, which pushed him up four ranks to a career-best second place. He has the potential to become the first South African to lead the Test batting rankings since A.B. de Villiers in November 2015, trailing only England’s Harry Brook.
Fast bowler Scott Boland of Australia has risen three places to sixth in the Test rankings after collecting five wickets in two innings, while South African Wiaan Mulder has risen ten places to 43rd after also taking five wickets.
In T20Is, Abhishek is back on top:
Abhishek Sharma, India’s left-handed opener, returned to the top of the ICC Men’s T20I Batting Rankings on Tuesday after scoring a 35-ball century against New Zealand in Wellington. His colleague, Ishan Kishan, dropped to third position after leading for four months. Abhishek, who was ranked first from July 2025 to June of this year, is currently on his second stint at the top.
Sanju Samson (up six positions to 20th), Finn Allen (up three spots to 25th), and Glenn Phillips (up 20 spots to 37th) have all risen in the rankings as a result of their achievements in the ongoing New Zealand Series. Meanwhile, Mitchell Santner, the home team’s skipper, has moved up seven ranks to seventh, as have India’s fast bowlers Arshdeep Singh (up six spaces to 15th) and Prince Yadav (up 19 spots to 83rd).
England batters Ben Duckett and Brook move up six spots each to seventh and eighth in the ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings following their performances in the Pakistan ODI Tri-Series, which also included Sri Lanka. Brook recorded the fastest double century in the format against Sri Lanka, and Duckett made 105 against Pakistan, however both teams lost.
Shadab Khan, who produced an unbroken 113 to help Pakistan overcome England by one run in Lahore, has moved up 32 places to 92nd. Other ODI batsmen who have risen include Janith Liyanage of Sri Lanka (up ten ranks to 14th), Sikandar Raza of Zimbabwe (up seven spots to 20th), Gerhard Erasmus of Namibia (up fifteen spots to 45th), and Max O’Dowd of the Netherlands (up seven spots to 55th).
Azmatullah Omarzai of Afghanistan has risen 13 places to seventh in the ODI bowling rankings, while Namibia’s Vernard Scholtz has risen nine places to eighth, Sri Lanka’s Dumith Wellalage has risen eight places to 19th, and Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi has risen 14 places to 27th. Furthermore, Nabi has risen five places to third among all-rounders.
