{"id":26758,"date":"2021-01-25T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=26758"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:07:18","slug":"series-whitewash-will-take-pakistan-to-fifth-in-test-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=26758","title":{"rendered":"Series whitewash will take Pakistan to fifth in Test Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pakistan-cricket-team.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: The home side Pakistan will move to the No.5 spot in ICC Test Rankings if they are able to clean sweep South Africa in the upcoming two-match Test series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan are currently at seventh with 90 ranking points while South Africa is at fifth with 90 points. 2-0 win will take Pakistan to 89 points and at the fifth spot while Proteas will lose five.<\/p>\n<p>If this happens, it would be the first time since January 2017 when Pakistan will move to No.5 in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Pakistan captain Babar Azam have a chance to go past England&#8217;s Joe Root, who overtook his fifth spot in batsmen Rankings after a century against Sri Lanka in 1st Test at Galle.<\/p>\n<p>The other Pakistani batters Azhar Ali (19th), Mohammad Rizwan (36th) and Abid Ali (67th) have a chance to improve their rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Among bowlers, Yasir Shah (25th) and Shaheen Shah (33th) can improve if they manage to take some wickets in the first Test at National Stadium.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/pakistan-must-win-south-africa-tests-improve-wtc-ranking-inzamam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Pakistan must win South Africa Tests to improve WTC ranking\u2019 Inzamam<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: The home side Pakistan will move to the No.5 spot in ICC Test Rankings if they are able to clean sweep South Africa in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=26758\" title=\"Series whitewash will take Pakistan to fifth in Test Rankings\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26760,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26758\/revisions\/26760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}