POSTED: Sunday September 9th 2007
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Tendulkar?s climb up LG ICC Player Rankings is consolation for India following series loss
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Batting legend up to highest placing since March 2006; India drop, England rise in LG ICC ODI Championship table; Flintoff into bowling top 10, Anderson and Bell on the rise; Dhoni and Agarkar slide
India may have lost its ODI series with England but at least one of its players, batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, can draw personal comfort from the fact he is moving in the right direction in the LG ICC Player Rankings.
The right-hander was India?s top run-scorer in the seven-match encounter with 374 runs (only the man of the series Ian Bell, with 422 runs, scored more), including four half-centuries.
And that form has lifted Tendulkar up nine places to joint 12th in the batting list, alongside South Africa?s Jacques Kallis.
It is the batsman?s highest position in the rankings since March 2006, when he briefly touched 11th position, and suggests there is plenty still left in his batting locker despite media suggestions of impending retirement from one form of the game.
But while Tendulkar?s rise in the rankings is good news for the player himself and India cricket fans, not so positive for either is the fact that India has dropped one place in the LG ICC ODI Championship table.
Rahul Dravid?s side lost two rating points because of its 4-3 loss to England and that puts India below Pakistan. The two sides both have 108 points but Pakistan is placed higher in the table, in fifth position, when the ratings are recalculated to three decimal places.
Conversely, Paul Collingwood?s side, which secured its first victory in a home ODI series since 2003, has gained three rating points and has not only overtaken the West Indies and moved into seventh place, but is also now within three points of India.
But the sobering thought for both sides that took part in the thrilling seven-match series is that they are still a long, long way behind table-toppers Australia.
The team that holds the ICC Champions Trophy and ICC Cricket World Cup trophies is five points clear of second-placed South Africa, 21 ahead of India and 24 in front of England.
Tendulkar?s improving ranking and rating is one of the most dramatic upward movements in the upper echelons of the latest LG ICC ODI Player Rankings.
In the batting list, Bell has moved into the top 20 and is just one point short of his best rating, achieved earlier in the ODI series. He is one of two England players in the top 20, along with second-placed Kevin Pietersen, holding steady just behind leader Ricky Ponting of Australia.
In addition to Tendulkar, India has three other batsmen in the top 20 ? Dravid, who has dropped two places during the England series to 15th position, Yuvraj Singh, a non-mover at 18th in the list and 19th-placed Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The India wicketkeeper-batsman may have scored 50 in the last match of the series, at Lord?s on Saturday, but that was his only half-century in the seven matches and his modest return means he has dropped 14 spots over the course of the series.
In the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers, England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff remains his side?s highest-ranked player and has climbed five places to 10th position after taking 10 wickets in the four matches he played.
Only one player took more wickets in the series than Flintoff and that was his Lancashire and England team-mate James Anderson, and his great form has seen him climb 19 places to break into the top 20.
Anderson now lies 14th in the bowling list and is closing in on his best-ever haul of rating points, achieved four years ago in 2003, also the year when he took an ODI hat-trick against Pakistan.
But if there is good news for Anderson, there is bad news for Ajit Agarkar. He started the series in 13th position but has dropped 12 places and his fall means India is now without a bowler in the top 20.
Flintoff?s excellence with the ball has also seen him rise in the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders. He has climbed up from fifth to second position, overtaking Chris Gayle of the West Indies, Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka and Kallis in the process; but Flintoff is still some distance behind the leader of that list, South Africa?s Shaun Pollock.
Pollock also tops the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers, ahead of Australia?s Nathan Bracken and Shane Bond of New Zealand. Below Ponting and Pietersen in the batting table comes the Australia duo of Michael Hussey and Matthew Hayden, together with South Africa captain Graeme Smith.
LG ICC ODI Championship (as of 9 September 2007, after England ? India ODI series)
Rank Team Rating
1 Australia 129
2 South Africa 124
3 New Zealand 114
4 Sri Lanka 111
5 Pakistan 108
6 India 108
7 England 105
8 West Indies 102
9 Bangladesh 48
10 Ireland 28
11 Zimbabwe 17
12 Kenya 0
(Developed by David Kendix)
LG ICC One-Day Rankings (as of 9 September 2007)
Batsmen
Rank Player Team Points Avge HS Rating
1 Ricky Ponting Aus 799 43.31 805 v SA at Johannesburg 2006
2 Kevin Pietersen Eng 770 51.75 834 v Aus at Antigua 2007
3 Mike Hussey Aus 766 58.90 863 v NZ at Perth 2007
4 Matthew Hayden Aus 746 43.99 854 v Ind at Centurion 2003
5 Graeme Smith SA 735 39.77 784 v Ind at Kolkata 2005
6 Adam Gilchrist Aus 729 36.00 820 v SL at Dambulla 2004
7 Michael Clarke Aus 728 45.60 749 v SA at Centurion 2006
8 Andy Symonds Aus 726 39.46 774 v Ban at Fatullah 2006
9 R.R.Sarwan WI 724 44.55 798 v Ind at St Kitts 2006
10 Chris Gayle WI 720 38.89 804 v Aus at Mumbai 2006
11 S.Chanderpaul WI 711 38.96 754 v SA at Durban 1999
12= Jacques Kallis SA 709 45.49 816 v WI at Johannesburg 2004
S.R.Tendulkar Ind 709 44.32 887 v Zim at Sharjah 1998
14 Ian Bell Eng 704 39.37 705 v Ind at Birmingham 2007
15 Rahul Dravid Ind 701 40.04 754 v WI at Kingston 2006
16 H.H.Gibbs SA 699 36.25 750 v SL at Durban 2003
17 S.T.Jayasuriya SL 697 32.83 838 v Ban at Pietermaritzburg 2003
18 Yuvraj Singh Ind 696 36.23 739 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2006
19 Mahendra Dhoni Ind 695 44.23 806 v WI at Kingston 2006
20 M.Jayawardena SL 694 33.52 737 v WI at Colombo (RPS) 2001
Bowlers
Rank Player Team Points Avge Econ HS Rating
1 Shaun Pollock SA 874 24.14 5.48 920 v Pak at Johannesburg 2007
2 Nathan Bracken Aus 794 21.36 3.91 806 v SL at St George’s 2007
3 Shane Bond NZ 790 19.32 3.91 811 v SA at St George’s 2007
4 Chaminda Vaas SL 741 26.79 5.48 861 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2004
5 M.Muralidaran SL 730 22.68 4.18 913 v NZ at Sharjah 2002
6 Daniel Vettori NZ 697 32.94 3.84 767 v Eng at Perth 2007
7 Makhaya Ntini SA 687 24.01 4.25 782 v WI at Cape Town 2004
8 Brett Lee Aus 686 22.65 4.41 853 v SA at Melbourne 2006
9 Lasith Malinga SL 684* 23.95 4.86 687 v Ban at Colombo (RPS) 2007
10 Andrew Flintoff Eng 667 25.10 4.65 755 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
11 Brad Hogg Aus 656 27.10 4.41 661 v SA at St Lucia 2007
12 Andre Nel SA 654 27.62 4.50 672 v Ind at Stormont 2007
13 Abdur Razzak Ban 648 22.85 4.65 711 v Eng at Bridgetown 2007
14 James Anderson Eng 646 27.23 4.52 689 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
15 Andrew Hall SA 621 26.44 4.49 655 v Eng at Bridgetown 2007
16 Daren Powell WI 620*! 30.15 4.30 620 v Ire at Dublin 2007
17 Shahid Afridi Pak 619 35.26 3.78 622 v SL at Abu Dhabi 2007
18 Jacob Oram NZ 613 30.58 4.68 766 v Aus at The Oval 2004
19 Moh?d Rafique Ban 608 37.90 4.72 650 v Zim at Bogra 2006
20 Mash? Mortaza Ban 605 29.70 4.60 678 v Ind at Port-of-Spain 2007
All-rounders
Rank Player Team Points HS Rating
1 Shaun Pollock SA 473 496 v ASI at Chennai 2007
2 Andrew Flintoff Eng 372 544 v SL at The Rose Bowl 2004
3 Jacques Kallis SA 370 505 v WI at Bridgetown 2001
4 S.T.Jayasuriya SL 368 463 v Pak at Lahore 1997
5 Chris Gayle WI 366 511 v Zim at Harare 2003
*Indicates a provisional rating
! Indicates a career-best rating
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