ICC Test Rankings: Australia becomes World No 1, Joe Root takes ICC Test batting ranking top spot

Australia defeated England by 2 wickets in the Edgbaston Test. In this way, the Australian team has taken a 1-0 lead in the five test match series. While there has been a major change in the ICC Test rankings. In fact, Joe Root has become the number-1 batsman to score a century in the first innings of the Edgbaston Test. While Australia’s Marnus Labuschen has come second. Marnus Labuschagne topped the ICC Test rankings for almost 6 months, but now Joe Root has moved up to number one. While Marnus Labuschagne, who performed poorly in the Edgbaston Test, has suffered a setback in the rankings.

Joe Root scored a century in the first innings of the Edgbaston Test. This is the 30th century of Joe Root’s Test career. While Joe Root played an innings of 46 runs in the second innings of this Test. Talking about Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne, he was dismissed without scoring a single run in the first innings of the Edgbaston Test. While in the second innings, Marnus Labuschen got out after scoring 13 runs. Earlier, even in the final match of the World Test Championship against India, Marnus Labuschein could not do anything special. For that reason, it is the turn of this Australian batsman to suffer a loss in the rankings.

On the other hand, talking about the first test, Australia defeated England by 2 wickets. Australia got a target of 281 runs to win the match in the second innings. The Australian team scored 282 runs for 8 wickets and won the match. Usman Khawaja, who scored a century in the first innings for Australia, contributed 65 runs in the second innings. Apart from this, no batsman could cross the mark of fifty runs. However, Australian captain Pat Cummins returned unbeaten scoring 44 runs. Stuart Broad took the most 3 wickets from England. While Ollie Robinson had 2 successes. Apart from this, Moeen Ali, Joe Root and Ben Stokes took 1 wicket each.