Stuart Broad breaks into top 20 bowlers for first time but England lose ground in Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship
There has been plenty of movement in the latest Reliance Mobile ICC Player Ran
kings for ODI batsmen with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Shoaib Malik and Michael Hussey being the main beneficiaries as Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden and Shivnarine Chanderpaul lose out.Dhoni has not been dismissed so far in the Asia Cup having scored 135 runs in two unbeaten innings. This effort has moved him up five places in the batting rankings to fourth position, level with Hussey and Ponting of Australia.
Former number-one Hussey has been slipping down the rankings of late but has now managed to halt that decline. The West Australian gains three places in the figures announced today after a crucial innings in Friday’s ODI against the West Indies in Grenada .
With his side in a bit of trouble at 35-3, the 33-year-old top-scored with 62 and shared a 100-run partnership with Michael Clarke to make sure Australia posted what turned out to be a winning total of 213-5.
Ponting, on the other hand, has dropped from second position to fourth after failing to make an impression with the bat during either of the two ODIs of the series played so far. Meanwhile, South Africa captain Graeme Smith is still on top of the log as his side prepares for its upcoming Test series in England .
Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik is back into the top 20 batsmen having gained no fewer than seven places in latest rankings. His unbeaten 125 against India was not enough to win the match for Pakistan but it has made a big difference to Shoaib’s standing in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen.
The 26-year-old has moved to the top of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders, taking over from team-mate Shahid Afridi, who slips to second spot with New Zealand ’s Jacob Oram up two places to third place.
With the Black Caps having dominated the ODI series against England, captain Daniel Vettori lifted the trophy at Lord’s on Saturday and his match figures of 10-1-32-3 in his side’s 51-run victory illustrated just why the 29-year-old is the top-ranked one-day bowler in the world at present.
Team-mate Scott Styris is currently enjoying the highest rating of his career to date and has gained four places to 22nd in the batting list after hitting a memorable 87 not out.
But the most impressive progress is by an England player. Stuart Broad has gained 22 places to a career-high 12th position in the Reliance Mobile ICC Rankings for ODI bowlers capping off a good series for the young fast bowler.
Among the other bowlers, there is also good progress for Daren Powell of the West Indies, who climbed three places to fifth position, Australia’s Brett Lee (up three places to joint-seventh) and West Indies’ Jerome Taylor (up two places to join Lee in seventh place).
England loses further ground in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship and is now firmly in seventh position two points adrift of Sri Lanka in sixth spot and five ahead of the West Indies in eighth.
New Zealand managed to stay ahead of India in third place but with the Asia Cup still going on, India can go third if it wins its next two matches, against Pakistan and Sri Lanka , even if New Zealand overcomes the challenge of Ireland in Aberdeen on Tuesday.
If the Irishmen win that match, they will gain seven points, putting a little bit of pressure on Bangladesh in ninth spot.
Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship (as of 29 June)
Rank Team Rating
1 Australia 128
2 South Africa 127
3 New Zealand 115
4 India 114
5 Pakistan 110
6 Sri Lanka 105
7 England 103
8 West Indies 98
9 Bangladesh 46
10 Ireland 20
11 Zimbabwe 18
12 Kenya 0
(Developed by David Kendix)
ICC One-Day Rankings (as of 29 June)
Batsmen
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1 ( - ) Graeme Smith SA 792 ! 41.11 792 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
2 (+1) S.R.Tendulkar Ind 758 44.33 887 v Zim at Sharjah 1998
3 (+1) Mhd Yousuf Pak 752 43.41 777 v SA at Rawalpindi 2003
4= (-2) Ricky Ponting Aus 750 43.14 832 v NZ at Hobart 2007
(+3) Mike Hussey Aus 750 55.47 863 v NZ at Perth 2007
(+5) MS Dhoni Ind 750 47.33 806 v WI at Kingston 2006
7 (-2) S.Chanderpaul WI 744 40.48 754 v SA at Durban 1999
8= (+2) AB de Villiers SA 733 ! 37.66 733 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
(-3) Matthew Hayden Aus 733 43.80 854 v Ind at Centurion 2003
10 (+1) H.H.Gibbs SA 718 36.53 750 v SL at Durban 2003
11 (-3) Kevin Pietersen Eng 717 47.14 834 v Aus at Antigua 2007
12 ( - ) Michael Clarke Aus 716 43.79 756 v SL at Melbourne 2008
13 ( - ) Andrew Symonds Aus 706 39.68 778 v Ind at Nagpur 2007
14= (+1) K.C.Sangakkara SL 701 35.88 760 v Ind at Rajkot 2007
( - ) Yuvraj Singh Ind 701 36.34 739 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2006
16 (+1) Jacques Kallis SA 688 45.21 816 v WI at Johannesburg 2004
17 (+7) Shoaib Malik Pak 674 35.62 685 v Ind at Lahore 2006
18 ( - ) Chris Gayle WI 673 38.64 804 v Aus at Mumbai 2006
19 (-3) Salman Butt Pak 669 39.65 689 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
20= ( - ) Gautam Gambhir Ind 666 38.08 679 v HK at Karachi 2008
(-1) R.R.Sarwan WI 666 43.68 798 v Ind at St Kitts 2006
Bowlers
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave Econ HS Rating
1 ( - ) Daniel Vettori NZ 769 31.89 4.17 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
2 ( - ) Nathan Bracken Aus 764 21.72 4.37 806 v SL at St George's 2007
3 ( - ) Shane Bond NZ 718 19.32 4.20 811 v SA at St George's 2007
4 ( - ) Chaminda Vaas SL 693 27.38 4.18 861 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2004
5 (+3) Daren Powell WI 686 ! 30.14 4.52 686 v Aus at St George's 2008
6 ( - ) Andre Nel SA 682 26.95 4.61 685 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
7= (+3) Brett Lee Aus 677 22.79 4.70 853 v SA at Melbourne 2006
(+2) Jerome Taylor WI 677 27.38 4.68 688 v SA at Cape Town 2008
9 (-3) Shahid Afridi Pak 672 34.46 4.62 685 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
10 (-6) Kyle Mills NZ 670 26.74 4.68 694 v Ban at Queenstown 2007
11 ( - ) M.Muralidaran SL 668 22.98 3.87 913 v NZ at Sharjah 2002
12 (+22) Stuart Broad Eng 646*! 28.04 4.85 646 v NZ at Lord's 2008
13 (-1) M.F.Maharoof SL 637 24.39 4.65 671 v Eng at Dambulla 2007
14 ( - ) Makhaya Ntini SA 635 24.12 4.46 782 v WI at Cape Town 2004
15 (+2) M.G.Johnson Aus 632* 25.50 4.81 659 v SL at Melbourne 2008
16 (-3) Brad Hogg Aus 629 26.84 4.52 687 v Ind at Nagpur 2007
17 (-2) Andrew Flintoff Eng 619 25.10 4.37 755 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
18 (-3) Jacob Oram NZ 618 31.55 4.47 768 v Aus at The Oval 2004
19 ( - ) Peter Ongondo Ken 610 ! 25.14 4.34 610 v Ber at Nairobi 2007
20 (+3) Abdur Razzak Ban 608 24.85 4.20 711 v Eng at Bridgetown 2007
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points HS Rating
1 (+1) Shoaib Malik Pak 350 402 v WI at Brisbane 2005
2 (-1) Shahid Afridi Pak 346 360 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
3 (+2) Jacob Oram NZ 337 353 v Eng at Auckland 2008
4 (+2) Jacques Kallis SA 334 505 v WI at Bridgetown 2001
5 (-2) Chris Gayle WI 325 511 v Zim at Harare 2003
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