India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah’s reign at the top of the ICC Test bowling rankings is facing its sternest challenge yet, with Australia captain Pat Cummins closing in on the number one spot in the latest rankings update.

Bumrah continues to lead the Test bowling charts with 879 rating points, but Cummins has surged four places to second following a match-winning performance in the third Ashes Test against England in Adelaide. The Australian skipper picked up three wickets in each innings to finish with figures of 6 for 117, guiding his side to an 82-run victory and an unassailable 3–0 lead in the Ashes series.

Cummins’ impressive showing saw him replace Mitchell Starc in second position, taking his tally to 849 points just 30 points shy of Bumrah at the summit.

In the Test batting rankings, Travis Head climbed four spots to joint third with 815 rating points, alongside teammate Steve Smith. Head was instrumental in Australia’s dominance in the third Ashes Test, smashing 170 off 219 balls in the second innings to hand his side a commanding 434-run lead. Wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey also made significant gains, rising six places to ninth after his century earned him a career-best rating of 737.

Bumrah also made notable progress in the T20I bowling rankings, leaping 10 places to joint 18th alongside Sri Lanka’s Maheesh Theekshana on 622 points. The rise followed his excellent spell of 2 for 17 in the fifth T20I against South Africa.

Meanwhile, Tilak Varma continued his rapid ascent in the T20I batting rankings, climbing one spot to third overall. The young India batter finished as the leading run-scorer in the recent five-match T20I series against South Africa, accumulating 187 runs from four innings at an average of 62.33 and a strike rate of 131.69, including two half-centuries.

Varma capped off the series with a fluent 73 off 42 balls in the final T20I in Ahmedabad, helping India post a daunting total of 231. At the top of the T20I batting rankings, Abhishek Sharma remains firmly in first place with 908 rating points.

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