Latest ICC Rankings : Tendulkar continues his march upwards

[The Outsider]

From being in the 20s in the middle of last year, is up to 13 now. Dravid also moved up after Perth.

Name Country Rating Career Best 1 K.C. Sangakkara SL 933 938 v England, 01/12/2007 2 J.H. Kallis SA 917 935 v New Zealand, 18/11/2007 3 M.E.K. Hussey AUS 908 908 v India, 16/01/2008 4 R.T. Ponting AUS 889 942 v England, 01/12/2006 5 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 880 933 v West Indies, 27/11/2006 6 M.L. Hayden AUS 849 935 v England, 07/11/2002 7 D.P.M.D. Jayawardena SL 835 836 v England, 30/05/2002 8 S. Chanderpaul WI 816 838 v South Africa, 02/01/2008 9 K.P. Pietersen ENG 804 909 v West Indies, 28/05/2007 10 Younis Khan PAK 799 856 v England, 04/08/2006 11 A.G. Prince SA 730 756 v Pakistan, 11/01/2007 12 M.J. Clarke AUS 720 761 v India, 26/12/2007 13 S.R. Tendulkar IND 711 898 v Zimbabwe, 21/02/2002 13 A.N. Cook ENG 711 711 v Sri Lanka, 18/12/2007 15 R. Dravid IND 710 892 v Pakistan, 16/03/2005 16 S.P. Fleming NZ 702 702 v Bangladesh, 12/01/2008 17 V.V.S. Laxman IND 690 753 v Australia, 02/01/2004 18 A. Symonds AUS 666 666 v India, 16/01/2008 19 G.C. Smith SA 665 756 v New Zealand, 26/03/2004 20 P.D. Collingwood ENG 664 730 v Australia, 01/12/2006

Great to see Pathan break into the top 20 and Kumble hold his fort at number 6 :

Name Country Rating Career Best 1 M. Muralidaran SL 907 920 v Bangladesh, 11/07/2007 2 S.R. Clark AUS 843 843 v India, 16/01/2008 3 D.W. Steyn SA 832 832 v West Indies, 10/01/2008 4 B. Lee AUS 793 793 v India, 16/01/2008 5 M. Ntini SA 768 863 v India, 26/12/2006 6 A. Kumble IND 755 859 v Sri Lanka, 26/01/1994 7 S.E. Bond NZ 709 778 v West Indies, 09/03/2006 8 S.M. Pollock SA 702 909 v England, 25/11/1999 9 M.J. Hoggard ENG 695 795 v Sri Lanka, 28/05/2006 10 Shoaib Akhtar PAK 684 855 v New Zealand, 26/12/2003 11 W.P.U.J.C. Vaas SL 666 800 v India, 02/12/2005 12 C.D. Collymore WI 653 700 v India, 02/07/2006 13 Zaheer Khan IND 645 689 v Pakistan, 26/11/2007 14 A. Flintoff ENG 640 810 v Pakistan, 12/11/2005 15 C.S. Martin NZ 626 643 v England, 24/05/2004 16 Mohammad Asif PAK 619 710 v South Africa, 26/01/2007 17 Danish Kaneria PAK 614 723 v England, 12/11/2005 18 J.E.C. Franklin NZ 612 679 v Sri Lanka, 07/12/2006 19 I.K. Pathan IND 595 761 v Sri Lanka, 10/12/2005 20 M.S. Panesar ENG 589 721 v West Indies, 15/06/2007

[goose]

i do wonder what Kumble would need to do to climb that table?

[Cricketics]

i do wonder what Kumble would need to do to climb that table?

get support from the fielders so that he can get more wickets.... India needz good forward short leg fielder like Aakash chopra.. all those are top classs fielding sdies.. their bowlers get lot wickets which can be also termed as a "credit to fielder" we don't have such fielders.. kkd and jaffer and all drop lot of catches when they field on silly point and stuff..

[The Outsider]

i do wonder what Kumble would need to do to climb that table?

Become a pace bowler. The bowler's ratings are biased in favor of the faster men. I had an email exchange with PWC (when the present LG-ICC rankings were known as the PWC rankings) and explained to them how their ranking system goes against spinners who have traditionally had higher averages and SRs than faster bowlers because of the long spells they put in during matches. Murali aside no spinner who has played a substantial number of matches averages less than 25 and it would be crazy for a spinner to strike at 45-50, where the top pacers have. Their reply was that they try to compensate for it by giving 0.5 point for every 30 deliveries bowled in general, but the lop sided bowling ranking indicate that compensation is not enough. There is absolutely no way that Kumble is a lesser bowler than Lee, Ntini, and Steyn as of today and no way that Panesar and Vettori are worse than Franklin and Martin, specially since these ratings also factor in career performances.

[goose]

Thx and agreed !

[Guest dada_rocks]

get support from the fielders so that he can get more wickets.... India needz good forward short leg fielder like Aakash chopra.. all those are top classs fielding sdies.. their bowlers get lot wickets which can be also termed as a "credit to fielder" we don't have such fielders.. kkd and jaffer and all drop lot of catches when they field on silly point and stuff..

If I had my way from test one veeur and aakash wud have bene opening..lazy elegance doesn't work in opening whoever thought jaffar wud do anything in aussie land ..