England have slipped to fifth position in the ICC men's Test team rankings.
England have slipped to fifth position in the ICC men's Test team rankings after their 2-1 loss to West Indies in the series that culminated in St Lucia.
Starting the series with the objective of winning it to remain at the third position, England slipped behind New Zealand and Australia as they have lost four points and are now on 104.
Australia edged them on decimals after winning both Tests of their recent two-match series against Sri Lanka that helped them gain three points.
West Indies have gained seven points and moved up to 77 but remained at the eighth position in the points table led by India with 116 points and South Africa second with 110. New Zealand are third with 107 points.
England may have slipped to fifth on the Test team rankings, but their captain Joe Root's century knock in the final match of the three-Test series against West Indies has lifted him back into top five of the ICC Test rankings.
Root raised three places after his innings of 122, slotting in at number five on the rankings for batsmen, edging ahead of New Zealand's Henry Nicholls, who has the same rating points.
Jos Buttler, who backed up Root with a pair of half-centuries in the third Test, and Ben Stokes, who top-scored in the first innings, rose by eight places to number 26 and seven spots to number 34 respectively.
West Indies' Jason Holder remains at number 36, while Roston Chase, who made a fighting century, climbed 10 places to be number 41, while taking the 13th place among allrounders.
Stokes, who took two wickets in the St Lucia Test, made a small gain to be number four on the rankings for all-rounders, a chart led by Holder.
Among the bowlers, Mark Wood, who bowled a fiery spell for a maiden five-wicket haul in West Indies' first innings, was the big gainer, vaulting 12 places to number 52. Kemar Roach (11) and Alzarri Joseph (51) for West Indies, and Moeen Ali (27) for England made slight gains.
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