South Africa all-rounder Marco Jansen has attained No. 1 position in the bowlers’ and all-rounders’ rankings while Captain Temba Bavuma has also made huge progress moving four slots to a career-best second position.
Jansen’s position comes after playing a stellar role in his team’s huge innings and 31 runs victory over Australia in the second match of their ICC World Test Championship series.
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His gritty knock of 85 and hauls of five for 33 and one for 34 have, in fact, helped him advance in all three lists of the ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings as he has also gained 13 places to reach 56th position among batters.
Jansen is the first South Africa bowler to occupy the top spot since Kagiso Rabada in November 2024 and the first from his country to become the top-ranked Test all-rounder since Vernon Philander in August 2014.
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Meanwhile, Bavuma has also made huge progress after his match-winning 179 lifted him four slots to a career-best second position. He is now only behind England’s Harry Brook and with a chance to become the first South Africa player to top the Test batting rankings since A.B. de Villiers in November 2015.
Others to move up the Test rankings include Australia fast bowler Scott Boland, who is up three places to sixth position for a haul of five for 81 while South Africa’s Wiaan Mulder is up 10 places to 43rd after finishing with five wickets across the two innings.
India’s left-handed opener Abhishek Sharma’s blistering 35-ball century against New Zealand in Wellington on Tuesday has lifted him back to No. 1 position in the ICC Men’s T20I Batting Rankings with his team-mate Ishan Kishan slipping to third after occupying top position for four months.
This is the second stint at the top for Abhishek, who was No. 1 from July 2025 to June this year.