rankings, which puts him just behind Paul Harris of South Africa and makes him the third Pakistan fast bowler in the top 20.
Four-wicket defeat means England cannot go ahead of Australia in Test Championship at the end of this series
Pakistan's fast bowler Mohammad Amir has rocketed into his career-best 17th position in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers after playing a leading role in his side's four-wicket victory over England in The Oval Test which concluded on Saturday.
Man of the match Amir took 1-49 and 5-52 in the Test and was awarded with a jump of 14 places in the rankings, which puts him just behind Paul Harris of South Africa and makes him the third Pakistan fast bowler in the top 20.
Amir has played a total of 13 Tests in which he has taken 45 wickets. As such, he is still in the qualification period for bowlers as a bowler qualifies for a full rating when he reaches 100 Test wickets.
This means he could potentially edge closer or even overtake 14th-ranked Jerome Taylor of the West Indies depending on how he performs in the fourth and last Test, which starts at Lord's from Thursday. Amir now trails Taylor by six ratings points after earning 91 ratings points from The Oval Test.
Off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who took 4-71 in the second innings after bagging 1-32 in the first, has also jumped nine places to claim a career-best 48th position while Wahab Riaz, who took 5-63 and 1-40 on his debut Test, has entered in 60th position.
For England, off-spinner Graeme Swann has moved up one place to regain his second position on the bowling chart.
Swann, who had match figures of 7-118, had first climbed to second position in March this year after the first Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong. Swann, who took his 100th Test wicket in the first innings when he caught Yousuf off his own bowling, earned 24 ratings points that has put him on a career-high 820 ratings points.
However, there is bad news for the England pace trio which has slipped in the latest rankings which were released on Sunday morning.
James Anderson has fallen one place to fifth position, Stuart Broad has dropped three places to 11th spot and Steven Finn has slipped three places to 35th position.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen, Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf, Umar Akmal and Azhar Ali, and England's Alastair Cook and Matt Prior all rose up the rankings.
Yousuf, who scored 56 and 33, has climbed two places to 14th position with India's Gautam Gambhir firmly within his sights, Umar has jumped six places to share 41st position with Australia's Phillip Hughes and Azhar has vaulted 28 places to 55th spot.
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