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- Updated: July 18, 2016
Pakistan legspinner Yasir Shah has displaced England quick James Anderson from the no. 1 spot in the ICC rankings for Test bowlers. Yasir is the first legspinner since Shane Warne in 2005 to be ranked no. 1, and the first Pakistan bowler since Mushtaq Ahmed in December 1996.
Yasir’s rise to the top came as a result of his performance in the first Test against England at Lord’s, where he took 10 for 141 to bowl Pakistan to a 75-run victory. Anderson did not play the game because he was recovering from a shoulder injury.
Yasir has 86 wickets from 13 Tests – the most by any bowler after that many games – and has a chance of breaking a 120-year old record – the fastest to 100 Test …
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