Pakistan captain Younis drops to sixth position in ICC Test rankings : Sangakkara returns to the top: Daily Times

LAHORE: Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has returned to the top of the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen following his match-saving performance in the third Test against Pakistan in Colombo. “The 31-year-old compiled 130 not out in the second innings to go with his 45 the first time around and that was enough to lift him two places, above India’s Gautam Gambhir, who had been enjoying number-one position, and Pakistan skipper Younis Khan, who drops four places from second to sixth place in the latest rankings,” said a spokesman for the ICC.

This is not the first time Sangakkara has been the number-one-ranked Test batsman having risen to that level at the end of 2007 and again during 2008. Such has been his consistency with the bat, the left-hander has not been out of the top five since the end of 2006. There has been quite a bit of movement in the top 10 with Shivnarine Chanderpaul of the West Indies and Australia’s Michael Clarke both benefiting from Younis’s slip down the order.

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