KAGISO Rabada breaks 130 year old record.

prinzo · January 15, 2018

Proteas fast bowler Kagiso Rabada made history by becoming the youngest player to reach the top of the ICC Test bowler rankings.

2. George Lohmann

Age: 8 288 days, February 1888

Although the game has changed unrecognisably from the early days of Test cricket, George Lohmann's career bowling figures still inspire awe now – more than a hundred years after his death.

He still owns the best bowling average and strike rate of any bowler with more than fifty Test wickets and held the world record for the best innings bowling figures for more than sixty years.

He lost his top spot later that year but reclaimed it after a sensational 1896/96 series in South Africa in which he took 35 wickets at just 5.80 apiece. He spent a total of six matches and 339 days on top.

1. Kagiso Rabada

Age: 8 261 days, January 2018

And so to the latest table-topper.

He first captured the limelight at ICC U/19 World Cup 2014 in the UAE when South Africa won the title.

Kagiso took a match haul of 13/144 against England at Centurion in early 2016 and took ten in the match against Sri Lanka at Cape Town in January 2017 to move into the world's top ten for the first time.

He continued to impress throughout the year, with another ten-wicket haul coming against Bangladesh at Bloemfontein in October before his Cape Town efforts finally pushed him top.

No one-trick pony, he also reached the top spot in the ODI bowling table - albeit for just five days - in May and June 2017.