The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released a new Test ranking according to which Pakistan's star batsman Babar Azam has dropped out of the list of top ten batsmen.
According to the new rankings, South African wicketkeeper-batsman De Kok has joined the top ten batsmen, moving up two places to 10th position while Babar Azam moved up to 11th position in the Test players rankings. Steve Smith of Australia first, New Zealand Kane Williamson is second, Australia's Marnos Labushin is third in the list of batsmen, India's Virat Kohli is fourth, Reshbh Pant is sixth and Rohit Sharma is seventh, Henry Nickels is eighth and David Warner is ninth.
In bowling, Australia's Pat Cummins is first and India's Ravi Chandran is second.