POSTED: Thursday November 6th 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
South Africa must shut out Bangladesh to remain in second position in Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship
South Africa enters the series leading Bangladesh by 71 rating points
South Africa faces a tough challenge to
retain its second place in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table as it
hosts Bangladesh in a three-match ODI series starting in Potchefstroom from
Friday.
The Proteas currently sit in second place on 118 ratings points and to maintain that position, they will have to win the series 3-0 (barring any matches being rained-off). As South Africa enters the series leading Bangladesh by 71 rating points, it is expected to win convincingly and so failure to win all the ODIs would cost it heavily.
Defeat in one match would cost it two ratings points and would drop it to 116 and third place behind England when the ratings are calculated beyond the decimal point.
If Bangladesh wins the series 2-1, South Africa will slip to 112 ratings points and fifth in the championship table behind Australia, England, New Zealand and India, and just ahead of sixth-placed Pakistan which goes head to head with the West Indies in a three-match ODI series in Abu Dhabi from next Wednesday.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen, South Africa boasts three players in the top 20 – captain Graeme Smith (third), AB de Villers (17th) and Jacques Kallis (19th) – while Tamim Iqbal (40th) and Shakibul Hasan (43rd) are the two Bangladesh batsmen in the top 50.
Smith is fighting to overcome elbow injury which sidelined from the two-match ODI series against Kenya and the Twenty20 International (T20I) against Bangladesh on Wednesday. If he returns in this series, he will be eyeing at least second place which is currently held by Mike Hussey of Australia.
No bowler from either side figures in the top 20 of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers but Bangladesh’s left-arm spinners Shakibul Hasan (23rd), Abdur Razzak (27th) and fast bowler Syed Rasel (33rd) are in the top 40.
Johan Botha is the highest-ranked South Africa bowler in the named squad in 48th position and he will be aiming for an upward movement along with Kallis (53rd), Albie Morkel (67th), Morne Morkel (69th) and Dale Steyn (93rd).
The bowlers’ list is still headed by Australia’s Nathan Bracken with New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori in second spot and Mitchell Johnson, another Australian, in third.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for all-rounders, Kallis climbed to fourth place earlier this week following a good series against Kenya and he can leapfrog at least Pakistan’s third-placed Shoaib Malik with another good series.
Series schedule:
7 November – First ODI, Potchefstroom
9 November – Second ODI, Benoni
12 November – Third ODI, East London
Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table (as of 6 November, before the start of South Africa and Bangladesh ODI series)
Rank Team Rating
1
Australia
131
2 South Africa
118
3 England 116
4
New Zealand
113
5
India
113
6 Pakistan
110
7 Sri
Lanka
105
8 West Indies
95
9 Bangladesh
47
10 Ireland
19
11 Zimbabwe
15
12 Kenya
11
(Developed by David Kendix)
ICC One-Day Rankings (as of 6 November)
Batsmen
Rank Player
1 MS
Dhoni
2 Mike Hussey Aus 776 57.13 863 v NZ at Perth 2007
3 Graeme Smith SA 757 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
7 Kevin Pietersen Eng 730 47.83 834 v Aus at Antigua 2007
8 Sachin
Tendulkar
9 Andrew
Symonds
10 Matthew
Hayden
11 Chris
Gayle
12 Herschelle Gibbs SA 689 36.18 750 v SL at Durban 2003
13 K. Sangakkara SL 680 35.66 760 v Ind at Rajkot 2007
14 Michael Clarke Aus 677 42.46 756 v SL at Melbourne 2008
15 Shoaib Malik Pak 676 35.75 685 v Ind at Lahore 2006
16 Sanath
Jayasuriya
17= Yuvraj Singh Ind 673 35.91 739 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2006
AB de Villiers
19 Jacques Kallis SA 672 45.24 816 v WI at Johannesburg 2004
20 R.Sarwan
Bowlers
Rank Player Team Points Avge Economy HS Rating Ranking
1 Nathan Bracken Aus 755 21.87 4.33 806 v SL at St George\‘s 2007
2 Daniel Vettori NZ 733 32.05 4.17 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
3 Mitchell Johnson Aus 707 23.46 4.72 726 v Ban at Darwin 2008
4 Kyle
Mills
5 Stuart Broad Eng 684* 26.21 4.77 701 v SA at Trent Bridge 2008
6 M.Muralidaran
7 Chaminda Vaas SL 672 27.54 4.18 861 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2004
8 Andrew Flintoff Eng 668 23.99 4.35 755 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
9 Jacob Oram NZ 664 30.14 4.39 768 v Aus at The Oval 2004
10 Brett
Lee
11 Jerome Taylor WI 656 27.04 4.67 688 v SA at Cape Town 2008
12 Shahid Afridi Pak 654 34.90 4.63 685 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
13 Andre
Nel
14 Zaheer Khan Ind 637 28.82 4.84 700 v SA at Dhaka 2003
15= Daren Powell WI 632 32.18 4.63 686 v Aus at St George\‘s 2008
Iftikhar Anjum Pak 632! 32.49 4.87 632 v Ban at Karachi 2008
Stuart Clark Aus 632*! 27.82 4.90 632 v Ban at Darwin 2008
18 Brad
Hogg
19 Sohail Tanvir Pak 610* 28.11 4.92 619 v SL at Karachi 2008
20 F.
Maharoof
All-rounders
Rank Player Team Points HS Rating
1 Jacob Oram NZ 383! 383 v Ban at Chittagong 2008
2 Andrew Flintoff Eng 375 544 v SL at The Rose Bowl 2004
3 Shoaib Malik Pak 349 402 v WI at Brisbane 2005
4= Jacques Kallis SA 331 505 v WI at Bridgetown 2001
Shahid Afridi Pak 331 360 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
*Indicates a provisional rating
For more information and the full rankings go to www.iccreliancerankings.com.
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