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Career-best ranking for Nathan Lyon

Sept. 10 (CRICKETNMORE) - Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon has moved up to take a career-best eighth position in the latest ICC Test Player Rankings after a match-winning performance in Chittagong that helped his side win by seven wickets and draw the two-Test series

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Saurabh Sharma
By Saurabh Sharma
Sep 10, 2017 • 01:27 PM

Sept. 10 (CRICKETNMORE) - Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon has moved up to take a career-best eighth position in the latest ICC Test Player Rankings after a match-winning performance in Chittagong that helped his side win by seven wickets and draw the two-Test series against Bangladesh.

Saurabh Sharma
By Saurabh Sharma
September 10, 2017 • 01:27 PM

Lyon’s career-best haul of 13 for 154, the best ever performance by an Australia bowler in Asia, translated into huge gains as he has moved up nine positions to break into the top 10 for the first time. His previous best place was 12thin May last year while his highest in terms of rating points was 696 in February last year, 52 less than his present 752 points.

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Lyon was named player of the match and with 22 wickets in the series, shared the player of the series award with opener David Warner, who has moved up one place to fifth position after scores of 123 and eight in Chittagong.

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Top 10 Test Bowlers (as on 9th september 2017)

Rank    (+/-)      Player              Team      Pts   

   1       ( - )       R. Jadeja          Ind        884     

   2       ( - )       J. Anderson      Eng      868     

   3       ( - )       R. Ashwin         Ind        852     

   4       ( - )       R. Herath          SL        809     

   5       ( - )       J. Hazlewood    Aus      794    

   6       ( - )       K. Rabada        SA        785

   7       ( - )       Dale Steyn        SA        763      

   8       (+9)      Nathan Lyon      Aus      752

   9       (-1)       V.Philander       SA        751    

  10       (-1)       Stuart Broad     Eng      747    


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