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Virat Kohli becomes number one batsman in Test cricket
Monday, August 6, 2018 IST
Virat Kohli becomes number one batsman in Test cricket

Virat Kohli has become the seventh Indian batsman overall to become top-ranked player in ICC Test rankings for batsmen.
 

 
 

India may have gone down against England in the first Test at Edgbaston but captain Virat Kohli achieved another personal milestone by becoming the top ranked batsman in the ICC Test rankings for batsmen.
 
Virat Kohli struck his first Test Century in England in the first innings of the Edgbaston Test, making 149. He also top-scored in the second innings, getting a valiant 51 as India came up short in their chase of 194.
 
The 28-year-old is the seventh Indian batsman overall and first since Sachin Tendulkar in 2011 to top the ICC rankings.
 
Kohli now leads Smith (who had held the top spot since December 2015) by five points, but will have to maintain the form in the remaining four Tests to finish the series as the world’s highest-ranked batsman.
 
Tendulkar had joined South Africa’s Jacques Kallis in number-one position in January 2011, but had dropped to second spot following the Jamaica Test in June 2011 after he had missed the three-Test series against the West Indies.
 
Apart from Kohli and Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag and Dilip Vengsarkar are the other India batsmen to have achieved number-one rankings during their careers.
 
However, at 934 points, Kohli has become India’s highest-ranked batsman, 14th overall, on the all-time tally of points. Kohli had entered the Edgbaston Test on 903 points, 13 points behind Gavaskar, and is now ahead of the ICC Cricket Hall of Famer by 18 points.
 
If Kohli can deliver another strong performance in the second Test at Lord’s, then he can break into the top-10 by leapfrogging Matthew Hayden, Kallis and AB de Villiers, whose highest points tally was 935 each. Donald Bradman (961) and Steve Smith (947) are the two batsmen sitting on top of this exclusive list.
 

 
 
 
 
 

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