The match-winning performance helped Ashwin move from 14th to the 10th position among bowlers in Tests, having also become the joint-fastest to 350 Test wickets alongside Sri Lankan great Muttiah Muralitharan. Not only this, Ashwin also enjoyed entering the top five of the all-rounders' charts in the longest format, while his spin compatriot Ravindra Jadeja went past Shakib al Hasan to the second position.
Another Indian with a memorable game at Vizag was Rohit Sharma, who opened for the first time in Test cricket, and smacked scores of 176 and 127 right away. Rohit jumped from the 53rd position to the 17th spot after becoming only the fifth Indian to score twin centuries in a single Test. There was good news for other Indian batsmen too, with Mayank Agarwal, Rohit's partner at the top, climbing 38 places to sit at the 25th position in the rankings after smashing 215 and sharing an opening stand of 317 with Rohit.
India vs SA 2019: Ravi Ashwin returns to top 10 bowlers' rankings after Vizag show
Eight wickets in the recently concluded Vizag Test against South Africa has pushed Ravi Ashwin back into the top ten rankings for Test bowlers. In what was his first outing for India since playing Australia at Adelaide in December 2018, Ashwin claimed 7 for 145 in the first innings before picking up his eighth scalp of the match in the second.