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30-year-old Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah has been ranked number one Test bowler by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The spin maestro claimed 10 wickets at Lord’s cricket ground in the national team’s first Test against England and claimed the first rank on the chart.

Bairstow's fine innings of 48 comes to an end. #EngvPak https://t.co/pPA3qjQDFA

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Yasir is the first leg-spinner since Shane Warne in 2005, and the first Pakistan bowler since Mushtaq Ahmed in December 1996 to be ranked number one.

Shah’s 10-141 was the best-ever performance by a Pakistani bowler in his maiden Test on English soil, and the best by a Pakistani spinner in England, beating Abdul Qadir’s 10-211 at the Oval in 1987.

Shah was previo­usly ranked number four before the start of Englan­d series­.