Mills moves into top five bowlers in Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings as Vettori slips from number one; Bracken takes over top spot while Bangladesh’s bowlers are also on the rise
New Zealand ’s Jacob Oram has moved to the top of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders after a series-winning performance in Bangladesh .
The big 30-year-old from Palmerston North scored 135 runs in the three matches at an average of 67.50 and took four wickets at an equally impressive average of 12.50 and the niggardly economy-rate of just 2.38.
In the process he has gained two places in the latest rankings, overtaking Andrew Flintoff of England and Pakistan ’s Shoaib Malik to register the highest rating of his career to date.
Oram has also managed to gain no fewer than eight places in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers and is back into the top 10 after showing his fellow Black Caps how to do it in Chittagong and Dhaka .
And to cap off an excellent series for him, he also gained eight places in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen, moving up to 33rd position level with Sri Lanka’s Chamara Silva and just behind team-mate Jamie How, who himself has gained six places in the latest batting rankings.
Ross Taylor has gained three places to 29th position following his match-winning century in the third ODI and he is currently enjoying the highest rating of his career so far.
It was also a good series for Kyle Mills who has moved into the top five in the bowling rankings for the first time after taking five wickets at 10.83 in the series. Mills has eased past Flintoff and Stuart Broad of England , and Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralidaran of Sri Lanka and is also putting pressure on those players above him who will feel him breathing down their necks.
With Daniel Vettori slipping one place after this series, Australia ’s Nathan Bracken has gone top of the ODI bowling rankings for the first time in his career. Slow left-armer Vettori had a disappointing series by his standards, taking just one wicket in three matches at an average of 112 although his economy-rate of 4.00 was still competitive.
Bangladesh enjoyed several positive moments during the series and its victory in the first match in Dhaka helped moved Saqibul Hasan up 14 places to 25th in the bowling rankings, taking over as his country’s highest-ranked ODI bowler. But Saqibul will be looking over his shoulder at Mushrafe Mortaza (up 11 places to 31st spot) and Syed Rasel (up 15 places to 35th), who also did well in the series.
Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful rose 12 places to 47th position in the batting rankings but things were not so positive for team-mate Tamim Iqbal, who dropped five places to 40th after a relatively poor series for the 19-year-old from Chittagong . The batting list is still headed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is not far ahead of Michael Hussey of Australia and South Africa ’s Graeme Smith.
ICC One-Day Rankings (as of 15 October)
Batsmen
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1 ( - ) MS Dhoni Ind 793 47.41 806 v WI at Kingston 2006
2 ( - ) Mike Hussey Aus 776 57.13 863 v NZ at Perth 2007
3 ( - ) Graeme Smith SA 764 40.69 792 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
4 ( - ) Ricky Ponting Aus 740 43.24 832 v NZ at Hobart 2007
5 ( - ) Mohd Yousuf Pak 738 43.19 777 v SA at Rawalpindi 2003
6 ( - ) S.Chanderpaul WI 733 40.49 754 v SA at Durban 1999
7 ( - ) Kevin Pietersen Eng 730 47.83 834 v Aus at Antigua 2007
8 ( - ) S.R.Tendulkar Ind 724 44.33 887 v Zim at Sharjah 1998
9 ( - ) Andrew Symonds Aus 719 40.34 778 v Ind at Nagpur 2007
10 ( - ) Matthew Hayden Aus 711 43.80 854 v Ind at Centurion 2003
11= ( - ) H.H.Gibbs SA 700 36.31 750 v SL at Durban 2003
( - ) Chris Gayle WI 700 39.38 804 v Aus at Mumbai 2006
13 ( - ) AB de Villiers SA 687 36.09 733 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
14 ( - ) K.C.Sangakkara SL 680 35.66 760 v Ind at Rajkot 2007
15 ( - ) Michael Clarke Aus 677 42.46 756 v SL at Melbourne 2008
16 ( - ) Shoaib Malik Pak 676 35.75 685 v Ind at Lahore 2006
17 ( - ) S.T.Jayasuriya SL 675 32.69 838 v Ban at Pietermaritzburg 2003
18 ( - ) Yuvraj Singh Ind 673 35.91 739 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2006
19 ( - ) R.R.Sarwan WI 667 43.87 798 v Ind at St Kitts 2006
20 ( - ) Salman Butt Pak 666 39.88 689 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
Bowlers
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave Econ HS Rating
1 (+1) Nathan Bracken Aus 755 21.87 4.33 806 v SL at St George's 2007
2 (-1) Daniel Vettori NZ 733 32.05 4.17 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
3 (+1) M.G.Johnson Aus 707 23.46 4.72 726 v Ban at Darwin 2008
4 (-1) Shane Bond NZ 700 19.32 4.20 811 v SA at St George's 2007
5 (+4) Kyle Mills NZ 697 ! 26.00 4.63 697 v Ban at Chittagong 2008
6 (-1) Stuart Broad Eng 684* 26.21 4.77 701 v SA at Trent Bridge 2008
7 (-1) M.Muralidaran SL 674 23.03 3.88 913 v NZ at Sharjah 2002
8 (-1) Chaminda Vaas SL 672 27.54 4.18 861 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2004
9 (-1) Andrew Flintoff Eng 668 23.99 4.35 755 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
10 (+8) Jacob Oram NZ 664 30.14 4.39 768 v Aus at The Oval 2004
11 (-1) Brett Lee Aus 657 22.96 4.71 853 v SA at Melbourne 2006
12 (-1) Jerome Taylor WI 656 27.04 4.67 688 v SA at Cape Town 2008
13 (-1) Shahid Afridi Pak 654 34.90 4.63 685 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
14 (-1) Andre Nel SA 651 27.68 4.63 685 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
15 (-1) Zaheer Khan Ind 637 28.82 4.84 700 v SA at Dhaka 2003
16= (-1) Daren Powell WI 632 32.18 4.63 686 v Aus at St George's 2008
(-1) Iftikhar Anjum Pak 632 ! 32.49 4.87 632 v Ban at Karachi 2008
(-1) Stuart Clark Aus 632*! 27.82 4.90 632 v Ban at Darwin 2008
19 ( - ) Brad Hogg Aus 611 26.84 4.52 687 v Ind at Nagpur 2007
20 ( - ) Sohail Tanvir Pak 610* 28.11 4.92 619 v SL at Karachi 2008
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points HS Rating
1 (+2) Jacob Oram NZ 383! 383 v Ban at Chittagong 2008
2 (-1) Andrew Flintoff Eng 375 544 v SL at The Rose Bowl 2004
3 (-1) Shoaib Malik Pak 349 402 v WI at Brisbane 2005
4 ( - ) Shahid Afridi Pak 331 360 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
5 ( - ) Chris Gayle WI 323 511 v Zim at Harare 2003
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