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Steve Smith, Virat Kohli, Joe Root - all become No.1 in ICC rankings thanks to Kanye West

On August 14, every test batsmen in the world became No. 1 after tweet by Kanye West.

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Steve Smith may have regained the number one spot in ICC Test rankings for batsmen from Virat Kohli after the Lord's test, but on August 14 every batsmen in the world became No. 1. 

International Cricket Council (ICC) posted a picture on its Twitter handle on Tuesday that showed ranked all the Test batsmen ranked as number one. 

The ICC Twitter handle, of course, was making a joke and actually trolling American rapper Kanye West for his recent tweet. West know for weird tweets, has tweeted "no one is better than anyone" on August 13. 

A day later, ICC trolled the rapper tweeting "If you say so yeezy" along with the picture of the list of batsmen having '=1' rank. ICC's Twitter handle shared a screengrab of Kanye's tweet and with a list of the batsman, all ranked No. 1.

Indian skipper Virat Kohli has lost his top spot to Steve Smith after India's humiliating defeat to England at Lord's after managing scores of 23 and 17 in the two innings. He lost 15 points and thus fell behind Smith who still has 929 points - 10 more than Kohli.

India will play their next Test match against England at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from August 18. 

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