Pakistan’s T20I skipper Babar Azam becomes the only batsman in the top five of the ICC rankings across all formats after he climbed to fifth in the Test rankings.

Babar
scored 147 against Bangladesh to continue his incredible purple patch in the
longest format that has seen him score four centuries and two half-centuries in
his last seven Test innings.

The
right-hander has an average of 102.5 in the ICC World Test Championship and is
the only batsman alongside Marnus Labuschagne to have scored four centuries in
the competition.

Babar has
overtaken Australia’s David Warner and India’s Cheteshwar Pujara to reach the
number five spot, while his limited-overs rankings are even more impressive. He
is third in ODIs and first in T20Is.

The
25-year-old currently averages 45.12 in Tests but is well on course to join
India skipper Virat Kohli as the only batsman with an average of over 50 in all
three formats of the game.