Kane Williamson Becomes the First New Zealand Batsmen to Scale 900 Points

Kane Williamson, the New Zealand skipper, overtook former Australian skipper Steven Smith as the second-ranked batsman in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Rankings.

On the other hand, Cheteshwar Pujara gained big as he moved into the top five in the batsmen list following his match-winning knock against Australia at Adelaide. Pujara was the lone warrior in the first innings playing a knock of 123 runs while his partnership with Ajinkya Rahane helped India post a massive target. In doing so, he moved past Joe Root and David Warner and currently sits pretty at No.4.

Kane Williamson smashed 89 to 139 against Pakistan to register a historic Test win at Abu Dhabi. It helped the Kiwi skipper scale to a career-high total of 9ratingngs points, seven behind India skipper Virat Kohli. Williamson is now the first from his country to get past 900 ratings points.

However, Indian opener KL Rahul and Murali Vijay have dropped in the latest ranking following their poor show in Adelaide. While Rahul finds himself in the 26th spot, Vijay has dropped three places to be at 45th position.

For Australia, Usman Khawaja slipped three spots to 13th while Aaron Finch dropped to 89th spot. In addition to this, Shaun Marsh has risen six places to 38th, Tim Paine four spots to No.55 and Travis Head a massive 17 places to No.80.

For Pakistan, valiant centurions Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq made gains. Ali rose two places to No.10 and Shafiq climbed one spot to No.21. Babar Azam, who made a fighting 51 in Pakistan’s second innings, also rose three places to No.35.

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