Jason Holder first Windies all-rounder since Sobers to top ICC rankings
Captain's man-of-the-match performance helped inflict a commanding victory over England
Jason Holder has become the first West Indian since cricket great Garfield Sobers to be named as the world’s leading all-rounder following his superb display against England in Barbados. West Indies captain Holder struck a commanding 202 not out and also took two useful first-innings wickets on his Kensington Oval home ground in Bridgetown to help his side complete a crushing 381-run win over England in the first Test. Victory, secured with more than a day to spare, put the West Indies 1-0 up in a three-Test series. The towering Holder’s man-of-the-match display saw him go ahead of Bangladesh’s Shakib-al-Hasan and India’s Ravindra Jadeja in the International Cricket Council’s all-rounder rankings, with England’s Ben Stokes still in fourth place. Though the rankings, which aim to take into account the quality of the opposition as well as a player’s raw figures, did not exist when Sobers was still playing, they have since been applied retrospectively to generations of former cricketer...
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