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New Delhi: Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin's second Test hundred in Kolkata helped him rise to the No. 1 position in the ICC rankings for Test all-rounders on Saturday.
Ashwin scored 124 and recorded match figures of 40-11-98-5 to help India register an emphatic innings and 51-run victory over West Indies.
The Kolkata show not only improved Ashwin's batting and bowling rankings, but also helped him leapfrog Shakib Al Hasan and Jacques Kallis into the top in the all-rounders' list.
Ashwin now has 81 ratings points and leads second-placed Shakib from Bangladesh by 43 points.
In the ICC rankings for Test batsmen, Ashwin has moved up 18 places to the 45th position, while in the bowlers ranking, the 27-year-old off-spinner has gained two places and is now sitting in the sixth position.
Rohit Sharma and paceman Mohammed Shami, who made impressive debuts in the Kolkata Test, have also entered the ICC Player Rankings. The Mumbai batsman, who became the 14th Indian batsman to score a century on debut when he struck 177, lies in the 63rd spot while Shami's figures of nine for 118, - the best by an Indian fast bowler on debut, helped him enter in the 53rd place in Test bowlers chart.
West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are the other bowlers to improve their rankings. Shillingford's figures of six for 167 has put him inside the top 20 in the 17th position for the first time in his career (up by four), while Kumar's two wickets have helped him move into 87th place (up by 13).
The batting chart continues to be headed by AB de Villiers of South Africa while his teammate Dale Steyn is the number-one ranked bowler.
