West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder has made his way into the top 10 among Test bowlers in the latest International Cricket Council rankings on Tuesday.
The latest rankings featured the first Test in Jamaica where West Indies defeated Pakistan by one wicket.
Following that match, Holder moved two spots up and into ninth position after taking four wickets.
The top-ranked all-rounder added 30 points to bring his tally to 414 while distancing himself from second-placed Ben Stokes (362 points) of England and India’s Ravindra Jadeja who slipped to third with 359 points.
Off-spinner, Roston Chase remained at 13th while fast bowler Kemar Roach moved up to 16th in the all-rounders’ ratings.
Roach also found himself two spots up the ladder to sit just one spot out of the top 10 and three points behind India’s Jasprit Bumrah.
Jayden Seales, who became the youngest West Indian to take a five-wicket haul jumped 39 places into 58th after picking up eight wickets in the match.
Kyle Mayers, despite gaining a career-high of 374 points in the bowling rankings, slipped one place down to 52nd. Shannon Gabriel, Rahkeem Cornwall, Alzarri Joseph and Jomel Warrican also moved down the bowling rankings.
With the bat, Jermaine Blackwood leapt nine spots up to 35th, being the top-ranked Caribbean batsman after scoring 22 and 55 in the first Test.
Holder also gained five places and moved to 43rd in the batting rankings while skipper, Kraigg Brathwaite, who fell three runs short of a century in the first innings moved 18 places to 45th.
Chase is the only other batsman to move up the batting rankings and currently sits in the 73rd position while Nkrumah Bonner, Mayers, Shamarh Brooks, Shai Hope and Kieran Powell have dropped in the rankings.
From that Test, Pakistan’s captain Babar Azam also moved two spots up to eighth among batters after scoring 30 and 55 while Faheem Ashraf and Fawad Alam both earned four places up the ladder to 48th and 55th respectively.
