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Virat Kohli at his career best 9th position in Test Cricket rankings

Owing to his OK execution in the recently closed two-Test Cricket matches against New Zealand, India batsman Virat Kohli rose to his profession best ninth position in the most recent ICC Test rankings issued on Wednesday.

Kohli, who made 214 runs in four innings, broke into main 10 without precedent for his profession and joined countryman Cheteshwar Pujara, who slipped a bar to be on seventh spot.

Kohli bounced two spots emulating his thumps of 38 and 105 not out in the Wellington Test, which ended in a draw.

Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin slipped two spots to be at number 10 and is still the most elevated stacked up Indian bowler in front of left-arm Tweaker Pragyan Ojha (twelfth) in Test bowler rankings.

New Zealand skipper Brendon Mccullum's stupendous match-sparing thump of 302 helped him hop eight spots to a vocation best twelfth.

Mccullum, who turned into the first Kiwi batsman to score a triple hundred, helped draw the second and last, to secure the arrangement 1-0.

Mccullum's accomplice in a world record sixth-wicket stand worth 352, BJ Watling, has additionally climbed the rankings, hopping three spots to 45th as an aftereffect of his thumb of 124.

Two different centurions in the Wellington Test have additionally made upward moves in the most recent table. While Ajinkya Rahane is presently 46th (up from 15), New Zealand's debutante century-creator Jimmy Neesham has entered the rankings in 59th spot.

New Zealand's Tim Southee climbed a spot to a profession best ninth in the bowlers' record taking after his match pull of five for 143 in the Wellington Test against India.

In the mean time, Australia's Mitchell Johnson has kept on storming through the diagrams in the bowlers ranking.

Johnson hopped five spots to fourth emulating his marvelous match-winning pull of 12 for 127 in the Centurion Test against South Africa.

Vernon Philander has ceded the most obvious position in the bowlers' table to buddy Dale Steyn a 55-day later rule at the top.

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