Quinton de Kock's 96 in the first innings of the second Test, after scoring 141* in his debut against the West Indies, has brought him back to No. 10 - in the top ten in the Test rankings for batsmen. He was ranked last in the top ten in December 2019, but after top-scoring with 237 runs in the two-Test series, which South Africa won 2-0, he has gone above Babar Azam and Dimuth Karunaratne .
Rassie van der Dussen was second behind de Kock on the run-scorers list with 125 runs, while Jermaine Blackwood was third with 88 and Dean Elgar fourth with 87, and three of them also took advantage of the table. Earned: Elgar was up one place in 19th, van der Dussen was up 31 places in 43rd and Blackwood was up one place in 44th place, up 12 places.
Jason Holder started the series as a top-order all-rounder in Tests but average returns - 34 runs and six wickets in four innings (four of them in the first, which were before the period used in the latest rankings) - put him down. The push is second only to Ravindra Jadeja, who is currently playing the final of the World Test Championship against New Zealand in Southampton.
Kagiso Rabada was the Player of the Match for taking five wickets in the second Test, and moved up to sixth place as a result, while Keshav Maharaj's seven wickets, including a hat-trick, saw him move three places to 28th. Gave an edge. Lungi Ngidi also picked up three wickets in the game to move up three places to 41st.
Kemar Roach was the best West Indies bowler ever on the show, returning 3 for 45 and 4 for 52, and this moved him closer to the top ten for bowlers, as he finished 12th.