Ravichandran Ashwin on Monday, rose to a career-high second in the ICC Test rankings for bowlers even as A B de Villiers lost his top spot in the batsmen standings.
Indian left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha, who starred with a nine-wicket haul in the first Test against England, rose nine places to break into the top-five of the latest ICC rankings issued on Tuesday.
Former coach Ravi Shastri praised Virat Kohli's tenure as India's captain, stating that he did he a 'magnificent job' both as a skipper and a batter.
Win against Pakistan pushed the Kiwis to top of the heap as they became the sixth country in the past 10 years to be ranked number one in Test cricket.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting's centuries in his 100th Test reinforced his position as the world's top Test batsman in the LG ICC player rankings.
He also admitted to learning a lot from 'one of the best players in the world', his teammate Steve Smith.
India may have slipped to fourth in the Test rankings following the drawn Test in Fatullah, but its openers, Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan, achieved career-best rankings for batsmen.
Rohit Sharma closes in on Babar Azam at the top of the ODI rankings for batters
India's Shikhar Dhawan has made it to the top 10 of the ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in his career following his good showing against the West Indies in the three-match series.
Becomes only the 3rd Indian batsman to be in the top-10 in all formats of the game; Rahane at career-best fifth
The competition at the top promises to gain momentum as World No 2 Ben Stokes has also made huge gains to attain a career-best tally of 431 points, narrowing the lead from 66 to 54 points.
The ICC has rated Chennai's M A Chidambaram Stadium pitch, used for India's Test match against Bangladesh in September, as 'very good'
India's Sachin Tendulkar and South Africa's Jacques Kallis now jointly hold the top position in the list of Test batsmen after their superb show in the recently concluded Test series, according to a media release issued by ICC.
India regained top status in Test cricket, after nearly four-and-half years, following England's 2-1 series victory over former leaders South Africa.
Ajinkya Rahane has become India's highest-ranked Test batsman in the latest ICC Test Player Rankings after scoring two centuries in the 337 runs victory over South Africa in the fourth and final Test, at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi, which gave the home side a 3-0 series triumph.
Jay Shah expressed his vision to grow the global reach of the sport with a particular focus on the opportunity of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028.
India captain Virat Kohli retained his top spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen, while pacer Jasprit Bumrah slipped a place to fourth position.
KL Rahul dropped two places to be sixth while Virat Kohli remained static on 10th in the batters' list.
India end 2016 atop ICC Test Team rankings
Two fast-bowling all-rounders look to be in a battle for one spot, while a decision between Prasidh Krishna and left-armer Arshdeep Singh could be condition-dependent.
Suryakumar strengthens top position in ICC T20 batter rankings
Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin broke into the top 20 of ICC's Test Rankings for the first time at a career-best 18th spot after guiding the team to a series whitewash over New Zealand at home.
England captain Andrew Strauss and his team were presented the ICC Test Mace by Haroon Lorgat, the ICC Chief Executive and Rod Riley, Executive Senior Vice-President - Reliance Communications, after England completed a 4-0 series victory over India in the fourth Test at The Oval and confirmed their position as the number-one team in the Reliance ICC Test Rankings.
Indian batsmen, including Sachin Tendulkar, were pushed down the order in the latest ICC Test rankings following the 196-run bashing by England in the series opener at Lord's, on Monday.
Thanks to his sparkling form in the Test series against Australia, Sachin Tendulkar has risen to his highest Test rankings in two years and he is just two spots outside top-10 in the latest ICC batsmen chart.
Left-arm wrist-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi (716) is next in Rashid's sights, though Josh Hazlewood (792) boasts a strong margin at the top of the list.
Cheteshwar Pujara, India's batting mainstay in Test cricket, has surged to a career-high third position in the ICC Rankings after scoring back to back centuries against Sri Lanka in the ongoing three-match series.
It will be a battle for world supremacy when an injury-hit India, determined to protect is number one Test team's status, take on second-placed South Africa in the first of the two-match series starting in Nagpur on Saturday.
Pakistan's batting great Javed Miandad is not happy with the present ranking system of the International Cricket Council even though the team has just become the number one ranked side. Miandad said while he was happy that Pakistan, despite the many problems it was facing as a cricket nation, had topped the test ranking table, the ICC needed to come out with a better system. "The present system is not satisfactory as there is not a proper system to rank a team on the matches it plays on home and away basis," he told PTI.
ICC World Test Championship finalists India and New Zealand remain the top two teams in the MRF Tyres ICC men's Test team rankings after the annual update on Thursday.
Sachin Tendulkar, who dropped a rung to 14th in the batsmen's rankings, leads a pack of five Indians in the top-20.
A spineless India surrendered their No 1 status to a ruthless England as they slumped to an innings and 242-runs defeat, allowing the hosts clinch the completely lop-sided four-match series by taking a 3-0 lead at Edgbaston.
Sachin Tendulkar moved up to 17th, while Sourav Ganguly too climbed a place to 18th in the latest ICC Test rankings.
Joe Root became only the third player in Ashes history to score more than 2,000 runs and bag 20 wickets.
As India chase history at home in Navi Mumbai, while Laura Wolvaardt's South Africa will look to script their own fairytale, by finally breaking their run of heartbreaks at ICC events.
Sachin Tendulkar lost the coveted number one spot in the ICC Test rankings to South Africa's Jacques Kallis, but Rahul Dravid, adjudged man-of-the-match for his century in the first Test against the West Indies, returned to the top-20 after climbing nine rungs.
Ricky Ponting's men have stretched their lead to 21 points over England and their 135 points is the highest rating since a modified format was introduced in 2003.
South Africa will be aiming to carry the winning momentum from their ODI series into the three-Test series against New Zealand starting in Dunedin on, as it will earn them the status of the No. 1 Test ranked side in the world in the ICC Test Championship table.
India's decorated off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin failed to fetch any buyers for himself and went unsold in the ILT20 Season 4 auction on Wednesday.
Ashwin moves into top-10, Dhawan in career-high 32nd spot in the latest ICC Test rankings
