{"id":382486,"date":"2025-12-31T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/382486\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:43:07","slug":"rankings-rejoice-for-bowlers-in-melbourne-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/382486\/","title":{"rendered":"Rankings rejoice for bowlers in Melbourne blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

As runs came at a premium for an Australian side disappointed to drop ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 points, their bowlers maintained their lofty standards for small rankings gains.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Starc\u2019s four wickets was enough for him to join Noman Ali in a tie for second spot (843), with Scott Boland moving up two spots to seventh at a rating of 810, both career highs.<\/p>\n

Harry Brook\u2019s 41 and unbeaten 18 to see out England\u2019s chase saw him move three spots to second on the Test Batting<\/a> rankings (846), moving out of the logjam of those chasing Joe Root for top spot.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s Steve Smith and Travis Head, as well as New Zealand\u2019s Kane Williamson, moved down as a result of Brook\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As runs came at a premium for an Australian side disappointed to drop ICC World Test Championship 2025-27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-382486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}