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Senior batsmen Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid gain a place each in the newest ICC player rankings for Test batsmen, which is being head by South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis.
While Tendulkar better from fifth to fourth, Dravid raised a rung to ninth from tenth position.
Among Indian bowlers, pace lead Zaheer Khan gained a place to be at sixth in spite of being ruled out of the recently completed four-match Test series between India and England after behind constrain injury on the very first day of the opening match at Lord's.
As England claimed the title of number-one Test side in the world with a 4-0 series victory, four of their batsmen made it to the top-10, with Ian Bell being the most distinguished.
Bell and Alastair Cook have jointly claim the second position after Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara slip three places to fifth after scoring only 10 and 17 in the lately completed Test against Australia.
Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott are other batsmen in the top-10. England now boasts of four bowlers and equal number of batsmen in the top 10.
Australia's Shane Watson and Ryan Harris, Rangana Herath of Sri Lanka and Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez and Misbah-ul-Haq have achieve career-best rankings in the latest list, which was free after the conclusion of the Galle Test between Sri Lanka and Australia and the one-off Test between Pakistan and Zimbabwe in Bulawayo.
The player rankings will now be efficient after the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, which starts on Thursday in Pallekele, while the Test Championship table will be updated after the end of the third and final Test between the two sides which starts in Colombo on 16 September.
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