{"id":2771,"date":"2019-01-27T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2019-01-27T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T17:35:04","slug":"holder-becomes-the-first-no-1-wi-allrounder-since-sobers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/27\/holder-becomes-the-first-no-1-wi-allrounder-since-sobers\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder becomes the first No. 1 WI Allrounder since Sobers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two days after becoming only the third man batting at No. 8 or lower to score a Test double-hundred, West Indies captain\u00a0Jason Holder<\/a>\u00a0has emulatedSir Garry Sobers<\/a>\u00a0in achieving the top spot among allrounders in the ICC Test rankings. Holder\u00a0broke several records<\/a>\u00a0and the England attack, fashioning West Indies’\u00a0third-biggest victory<\/a>\u00a0in terms of runs, at the Kensington Oval, his home ground. All of this has helped him become the first West Indian to be ranked No. 1 among Test allrounders since Sobers held the top spot in March 1974 in the retrospective rankings.<\/p>\n

Holder leapfrogged Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan and India’s Ravindra Jadeja and now has 440 points – 25 more than the second-placed Shakib. Holder also made gains on the batting front, jumping from 58th to a career-best 33rd.<\/p>\n