Ravichandran Ashwin lost 6 points in the ICC Test Rankings for bowlers and will have to be content with joint first with England pacer James Anderson.
He couldn’t perform well in the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar in Indore. India lost the game by 9 wickets.
This impacted Ashwin’s overall rating. Ashwin and Anderson are at the top of the chart with 859 points. Pat Cummins is third despite poor performance and missing the third Test against India.
South African speedster Kagiso Rabada has 807 rating points and is fourth.
Nathan Lyon, who took 11 wickets in the Indore Test, has 769 points and is placed at number nine.