{"id":6420,"date":"2020-12-07T08:52:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T09:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2020-12-07T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T10:16:39","slug":"williamson-joins-kohli-at-no-2-in-icc-test-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6420","title":{"rendered":"Williamson joins Kohli at No.2 in ICC Test rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Kane-Williamson-and-Virat-Kohli.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi:\u00a0Williamson&#8217;s career-best score of 251 in the first Test against West Indies at Seddon Park helped him jump up two places to join Indian skipper Virat Kohli at No.2 in the ICC Test Rankings for batsmen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With his recent performance, he gained 74 points, moving from 812 to 886 while his country-man Tom Latham achieved\u00a0his career-best points tally of 733 and tenth place on the table as he made 86 in the first innings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f4a5.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Kane Williamson joins Virat Kohli at No.2<br \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f4a5.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Tom Latham enters <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f51d.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> 10<\/p>\n<p>After the conclusion of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NZvWI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NZvWI<\/a> Test, top performers from New Zealand and West Indies sizzle in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MRFWorldwide?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MRFWorldwide<\/a> ICC Test Rankings for batting <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f64c.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Full list: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMjjVwOboH\">https:\/\/t.co\/OMjjVwOboH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/06GJGWjDBT\">pic.twitter.com\/06GJGWjDBT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1335873044833820672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>West Indies&#8217; Jermaine Blackwood has reached to 41st spot as he scored his second Test ton in the second innings.<\/p>\n<p>In bowlers&#8217; rankings,\u00a0Neil Wagner has equaled his career-best 2nd spot after taking six wickets in the match, edging him ahead of England\u2019s Stuart Broad back into second place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f1f3-1f1ff.png\" alt=\"??\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Neil Wagner moves up to No.2<br \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f334.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Jason Holder slips two spots to No.7<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MRFWorldwide?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MRFWorldwide<\/a> ICC Test Rankings for bowlers <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f449.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMjjVwOboH\">https:\/\/t.co\/OMjjVwOboH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tAo40viLZ6\">pic.twitter.com\/tAo40viLZ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1335875941118189568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Windies&#8217; captain Jason Holder has slipped from fifth to seventh having not taken any wickets. Holder has also lost the top spot in the all-rounders&#8217; table. He was top by one point from England\u2019s Ben Stokes, but Stokes now has a twelve-point advantage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ben Stokes has displaced Jason Holder as the No.1 all-rounder in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MRFWorldwide?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MRFWorldwide<\/a> ICC Test Player Rankings <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f64c.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Full list <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f449.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMjjVwOboH\">https:\/\/t.co\/OMjjVwOboH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VpNt526e8w\">pic.twitter.com\/VpNt526e8w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1335878645596950528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has retained his fifth spot among batsmen with 797 points.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/malan-achieves-highest-ever-rating-points-t20i-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">England\u2019s Malan achieves highest-ever rating points in T20I history<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi:\u00a0Williamson&#8217;s career-best score of 251 in the first Test against West Indies at Seddon Park helped him jump up two places to join Indian skipper <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6420\" title=\"Williamson joins Kohli at No.2 in ICC 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\/6420"}],"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=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}