The Boxing Day Ashes Test saw pacers taking all the 36 wickets and the match finishing within two days. England snapped their 18-match winless streak in the Aussie land and registered their first Test win in Australia since 2010/11.
As per Wisden, Brook, who has 898 rating points, levelled with Sachin, who had a career-high rating of 898 points during the 2002 following a Test match against Zimbabwe
Brook scored his seventh Test century when making a superb 171 during the first innings of England's eight-wicket victory over New Zealand in Christchurch and gained two spots to move to second on the updated rankings for Test batters, as per ICC.
England's dominant performance in the second Test against the West Indies has seen a host of their star players make big gains on the latest ICC Men's Test Player Rankings.