India reclaim No. 1 Test ranking

Virat Kohli-drove India finished a persuading 178-run win over New Zealand in the second Test at the Eden Gardens on Monday (October 3), along these lines supplanting most outstanding opponents Pakistan at the highest point of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings.

India should ensure that they win or at least manage a draw in the third and final Test in Indore to hold onto the top spot. Pakistan, who climbed to the No. 1 Test rank for the first time ever after completing a 2-2 draw in their four-game tour of England, have now slipped to the second spot, five points ahead of third-placed Australia.

In the event that India do win the Indore Test and finish the 3-0 whitewash, they will complete with 115 focuses while a draw will see them complete on 113 focuses. Then again, Pakistan can't go past India regardless of the possibility that they clear West Indies 3-0 in their up and coming Test arrangement. Be that as it may, a misfortune in Indore will see India complete with 111 focuses, putting them beneath Pakistan (112) in the rankings list.

This is additionally the fourth time that India have turned into the No.1 group in the ICC Test rankings. They were on top of the table between November 2009 to August 2011, a brief period between January-February 2016 and after that in August 2016.

 Anurag Thakur, the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), congratulated the team on reclaiming the top spot. "I congratulate Team India for their dominant show in Test cricket, which is the pinnacle of sport. The ICC Test rankings rightly reflect the impressive performance of Virat Kohli and his boys have displayed since the overseas tour of Sri Lanka, where they registered a series victory after 22 years."