Kohli gets career-best second ranking

Indian captain Virat Kohli rose one place to a career-best second position among Test batsmen on the back of his match-winning double ton against England while spinner Ravichandran Ashwin consolidated his number one place among bowlers in the ICC Player Rankings issued today.

Kohli, who scored 235 runs in India's only innings in Mumbai in the fourth Test, his highest score in the longest format, has helped him add 53 points, for an aggregate



of 886 rating points, to place him to a career-best second rank. He is now is in line to top the rankings in all three forms of the game at some point in time.

Kohli, who is presently ranked second in ODI Player Rankings among batsmen and first in Twenty20 Internationals, is 11 points behind Australia captain Steve Smith, who will have a chance to maintain his top ranking in an upcoming three-Test cricket series against Pakistan.