Bracken takes over at head of bowling list, Johnson into top 10, Murali’ on the march again
Symonds and Sangakkara back among top 10 batsmen
Australia consolidates lead in Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table
India’s one-day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is within touching distance of regaining top spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Player Rankings.
And there is a new name at the top of the bowling list with Australia’s Nathan Bracken taking over the number one position from Daniel Vettori of New Zealand.
Dhoni was last at the head of affairs among the world’s top one-day batsmen for one week in April 2006 and now, at the conclusion of the Asia Cup in Pakistan, he has only South Africa’s Graeme Smith ahead of him.
Dhoni moved up two places in the rankings as a result of his 327 runs during the tournament. He was dismissed just twice in five innings and had a strike-rate of 91 runs per 100 balls.
Dhoni’s gain is Sachin Tendulkar’s loss as the little master, who missed the tournament, drops four places to number six in the listings.
But heading in the other direction are Andrew Symonds and Kumar Sangakkara. Both players climb fours spots with Symonds now in ninth position and Sangakkara a place further back.
Veteran Sri Lanka batsman Sanath Jayasuriya, whose blazing 125 from 114 balls against India in Sunday’s Asia Cup final was the climax to a superb series, has returned to the top 20.
Jayasuriya, who finished as the tournament’s leading run-scorer with 378 runs, rises 10 places and now lies in 16th slot while his captain, Mahela Jayawardena drops three positions to 27th place.
Further down the batting list there are significant moves in the right direction for three players – Misbah-ul-Haq, Tamim Iqbal and Suresh Raina.
Misbah climbs 24 places to 37th position, Tamim rises seven slots to 42nd (a career-high which also makes him Bangladesh’s top-ranked batsman) and Raina shoots up 17 spots to 53rd position.
Bracken’s rise to number one in the Reliance Mobile ODI Player Rankings for bowlers comes off the back of an impressive series against the West Indies.
Bracken was the joint-leading wicket-taker in that series with eight scalps in five matches, the same as fellow left-armer Mitchell Johnson, who is the other significant Australian mover in the top 20.
Johnson climbs eight places to seventh in the listing, and with a career-high rating too.
The same is true of Pakistan’s Rao Iftikhar, into the top 20 as he gains eight spots to 15th.
Rao was the fourth highest wicket-taker in the Asia Cup with nine wickets and the three men above him are also making all the right moves in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings.
Sohail Tanvir (10 wickets) is up six places and now shares 20th spot on the ladder with Kenya’s Peter Ongondo.
Muttiah Muralidaran’s 11 wicket haul sees him rise seven slots to seventh place while fellow spinner Ajantha Mendis, whose 6-13 in the Asia Cup final wrecked India’s batting line-up, climbs a remarkable 65 places to 85th position.
His fellow Sri Lankan, seamer Nuwan Kulasekara climbs 11 spots to 54th and is at his best ranking and rating.
In the Reliance Mobile ODI Player Rankings for all-rounders, Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik remains top but a quiet Asia Cup for Shahid Afridi sees him drop two places to fourth and that means Jacob Oram and Jacques Kallis both move up one position and within touching distance of first place.
The Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table sees Australia move two rating points clear of its nearest rival, South Africa, following its 5-0 demolition of the West Indies in the Caribbean. The home side now languishes in eighth, six rating points behind England.
Sri Lanka’s Asia Cup win has Jayawardena’s men lying in sixth, four points behind Pakistan and seven back from India. New Zealand is third but it and the rest of the teams are quite some distance behind both Australia and South Africa.
Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship (as of 7 July)
Rank Team Rating
1 Australia 129
2 South Africa 127
3 New Zealand 115
4 India 113
5 Pakistan 110
6 Sri Lanka 106
7 England 103
8 West Indies 97
9 Bangladesh 45
10 Ireland 19
11 Zimbabwe 18
12 Kenya 0
ICC One-Day Rankings (as of 7 July)
Batsmen
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1 ( - ) Graeme Smith SA 792! 41.11 792 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
2 (+2) MS Dhoni Ind 773 48.00 806 v WI at Kingston 2006
3 (+1) Ricky Ponting Aus 751 43.24 832 v NZ at Hobart 2007
4 ( - ) Mike Hussey Aus 750 54.92 863 v NZ at Perth 2007
5 (+2) S.Chanderpaul WI 744 40.49 754 v SA at Durban 1999
6 (-4) S.R.Tendulkar Ind 743 44.33 887 v Zim at Sharjah 1998
7 (-4) Moh’d Yousuf Pak 738 43.19 777 v SA at Rawalpindi 2003
8 ( - ) AB de Villiers SA 733! 37.66 733 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
9 (+4) Andrew Symonds Aus 730 40.34 778 v Ind at Nagpur 2007
10 (+4) K.C.Sangakkara SL 729 36.43 760 v Ind at Rajkot 2007
11 (-3) Matthew Hayden Aus 722 43.80 854 v Ind at Centurion 2003
12 (-2) H.H.Gibbs SA 718 36.53 750 v SL at Durban 2003
13 (-2) Kevin Pietersen Eng 717 47.14 834 v Aus at Antigua 2007
14 (-2) Michael Clarke Aus 703 43.40 756 v SL at Melbourne 2008
15 (-1) Yuvraj Singh Ind 699 36.56 739 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2006
16 (+10) S.T.Jayasuriya SL 697 32.87 838 v Ban at Pietermaritzburg 2003
17 (+1) Chris Gayle WI 693 38.84 804 v Aus at Mumbai 2006
18 (-2) Jacques Kallis SA 688 45.21 816 v WI at Johannesburg 2004
19 (+1) Gautam Gambhir Ind 682 39.02 696 v SL at Karachi 2008
20 (-3) Shoaib Malik Pak 676 35.75 685 v Ind at Lahore 2006
Bowlers
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave Econ HS Rating
1 (+1) Nathan Bracken Aus 769 21.78 4.35 806 v SL at St George's 2007
2 (-1) Daniel Vettori NZ 761 31.70 4.17 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
3 ( - ) Shane Bond NZ 711 19.32 4.20 811 v SA at St George's 2007
4 (+7) M.Muralidaran SL 707 22.86 3.87 913 v NZ at Sharjah 2002
5 (-1) Chaminda Vaas SL 686 27.40 4.19 861 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2004
6 ( - ) Andre Nel SA 682 26.95 4.61 685 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
7 (+8) M.G.Johnson Aus 674*! 24.77 4.76 674 v WI at St Kitts 2008
8= (-1) Brett Lee Aus 667 22.96 4.71 853 v SA at Melbourne 2006
(-1) Jerome Taylor WI 667 27.38 4.68 688 v SA at Cape Town 2008
10 ( - ) Kyle Mills NZ 663 26.74 4.68 694 v Ban at Queenstown 2007
11 (-6) Daren Powell WI 655 31.73 4.60 686 v Aus at St George's 2008
12 (-3) Shahid Afridi Pak 654 34.90 4.63 685 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
13 (-1) Stuart Broad Eng 646*! 28.04 4.85 646 v NZ at Lord's 2008
14 ( - ) Makhaya Ntini SA 635 24.12 4.46 782 v WI at Cape Town 2004
15 (+8) Iftikhar Anjum Pak 632! 32.49 4.87 632 v Ban at Karachi 2008
16 (+2) Jacob Oram NZ 627 30.70 4.44 768 v Aus at The Oval 2004
17 (-4) M.F.Maharoof SL 625 24.39 4.65 671 v Eng at Dambulla 2007
18 (-2) Brad Hogg Aus 620 26.84 4.52 687 v Ind at Nagpur 2007
19 (-2) Andrew Flintoff Eng 619 25.10 4.37 755 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
20= (-1) Peter Ongondo Ken 610! 25.14 4.34 610 v Ber at Nairobi 2007
(+6) Sohail Tanvir Pak 610* 28.11 4.92 619 v SL at Karachi 2008
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points HS Rating
1 ( - ) Shoaib Malik Pak 349 402 v WI at Brisbane 2005
2 (+1) Jacob Oram NZ 342 353 v Eng at Auckland 2008
3 (+1) Jacques Kallis SA 334 505 v WI at Bridgetown 2001
4 (-2) Shahid Afridi Pak 331 360 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
5 ( - ) Chris Gayle WI 329 511 v Zim at Harare 2003
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