With preparations for next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup in full flow, Sri Lanka has moved up three places on the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table following its successful hosting of the tri-series involving India and New Zealand.
Kumar Sangakkara’s team had been placed in sixth position prior to the series but now sits proudly in third, level on points with India and South Africa. Sri Lanka is just behind India, which clings on to second place, and just in front of South Africa, which drops to fourth, when the ratings are calculated beyond the decimal point.
New Zealand drops to sixth position from fourth as Australia, at the top, and England, in fifth spot, remain unchanged. Further down the ladder, Ireland has gained one place to 10th spot on the rankings thanks to a successful retention of the ICC World Cricket League Division 1 title recently in the Netherlands.
The Irish are now just eight ratings points behind Bangladesh and will shortly travel to Zimbabwe for a three-ODI series after a crucial ICC Intercontinental Cup match against Zimbabwe XI in Harare. If Ireland wins all three of those ODIs, it will move ahead of Bangladesh into ninth position for the first time.
Meanwhile, Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka has broken into the top five of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen and India’s Virender Sehwag has returned to the top 10 following the final of the tri-nation series.
Dilshan’s match-winning effort of 110 in the final against India was enough to earn him a three-place boost in the rankings and he now sits in fourth position, level with Hashim Amla of South Africa. Amla’s team-mate AB de Villiers has benefited from Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s slip with the 26-year-old from Pretoria taking over at the top of the rankings.
The other main mover upwards in the top 10 is Virender Sehwag, who showed fine form throughout the tri-nation series in Sri Lanka. The hard-hitting opener was the series’ top-scorer with 268 at an average of 67.00 and that effort has moved him up eight places on the rankings to eighth place.
By not being involved, India’s Sachin Tendulkar has lost four places and now sits in 10th position. A player loses half a per cent of his rating for every ODI he misses. Leading Black Caps batsman Ross Taylor has gained four places and moves up to 15th position.
India pacer Praveen Kumar has gained five places in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers and has broken into the top 10 for the first time in his career. The 23-year-old took nine wickets in the series at an average of 23.66 and now sits in 10th position in the ladder, level with Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi.
It was also a successful series for Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga, who took seven wickets in the series at an average of less than 20. As a result he has gained 24 places and is back into the top 20 of the rankings, which remain headed by New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori.
Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table (as of 29 August)
Rank Team Rating
1 Australia 132
2 India 115
3 Sri Lanka 115
4 South Africa 115
5 England 113
6 New Zealand 112
7 Pakistan 98
8 West Indies 67
9 Bangladesh 53
10 Ireland 45
11 Zimbabwe 36
12 Netherlands 17
13 Kenya 0
(Developed by David Kendix)
ICC One-Day Rankings (as of 29 August)
Batsmen
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1 (+1) AB de Villiers SA 805 43.56 814 v WI at Dominica 2010
2 (-1) MS Dhoni Ind 796 50.73 837 v Aus at Delhi 2009
3 ( – ) Mike Hussey Aus 792 51.65 865 v NZ at Perth 2007
4= (+3) T Dilshan SL 751 ! 35.73 751 v Ind at Dambulla 2010
( – ) Hashim Amla SA 751*! 54.84 751 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2010
6 (-1) Chris Gayle WI 738 39.42 808 v Zim at Harare 2003
7 (+1) Jacques Kallis SA 721 45.73 818 v WI at Johannesburg 2004
8 (+8) Virender Sehwag Ind 717 34.64 787 v NZ at Auckland 2003
9 ( – ) Ricky Ponting Aus 716 42.85 831 v NZ at Hobart 2007
10 (-4) Sachin Tendulkar Ind 714 45.12 887 v Zim at Sharjah 1998
11 (-1) S Chanderpaul WI 711 41.77 778 v Eng at Guyana 2009
12 (-1) K Sangakkara SL 700 36.83 755 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2006
13 (-1) Graeme Smith SA 691 40.08 785 v Ind at Kolkata 2005
14 (-1) P Collingwood Eng 678 36.52 700 v Aus at Lord’s 2010
15 (+4) Ross Taylor NZ 660 36.00 698 v Aus at Adelaide 2009
16 (-2) Michael Clarke Aus 659 43.03 751 v SL at Melbourne 2008
17 (-2) Shane Watson Aus 658 40.29 666 v Eng at The Oval 2010
18 (+4) Herschelle Gibbs SA 641 36.13 752 v SL at Durban 2003
19= (+2) B McCullum NZ 635 28.99 666 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2009
(+5) Eoin Morgan Ire/Eng 635 39.32 687 v Aus at The Oval 2010
Bowlers
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave Econ HS Rating
1 ( – ) Daniel Vettori NZ 746 31.21 4.14 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
2 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 679 30.73 4.19 717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
3= (+1) Ray Price Zim 666 35.91 3.79 722 v WI at Guyana 2010
( – ) N Kulasekara SL 666 28.92 4.52 727 v NZ at Colombo (RPS) 2009
5 ( – ) Kyle Mills NZ 660 26.02 4.68 723 v Aus at Melbourne 2009
6= (-1) Stuart Broad Eng 658 26.07 5.13 703 v SA at Trent Bridge 2008
(-1) Doug Bollinger Aus 658*! 22.14 4.33 658 v Eng at Lord’s 2010
8 (+2) Jacob Oram NZ 644 30.52 4.33 770 v Aus at The Oval 2004
9 (-1) Dale Steyn SA 640 30.65 5.30 662 v Zim at Benoni 2009
10= (-1) Shahid Afridi Pak 636 34.73 4.61 667 v Ind at Mirpur 2008
(+5) Praveen Kumar Ind 636 32.16 5.06 652 v NZ at Dambulla 2010
12 (+1) Mitchell Johnson Aus 620 25.71 4.94 729 v Ban at Darwin 2008
13 (-1) Ajantha Mendis SL 613 19.37 4.37 642 v SA at Centurion 2009
14 ( – ) Ryan Harris Aus 610*! 16.12 4.69 610 v Eng at Lord’s 2010
15 (-4) Harbhajan Singh Ind 609 32.84 4.30 738 v WI at Bridgetown 2002
16 ( – ) James Anderson Eng 603 30.36 5.00 700 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
17 ( – ) Saeed Ajmal Pak 600* 30.21 4.17 610 v NZ at Abu Dhabi 2009
18= ( – ) Johan Botha SA 595 41.21 4.63 665 v Aus at Centurion 2009
( – ) Graeme Swann Eng 595* 25.54 4.53 604 v Aus at Lord’s 2010
20 (+24) Lasith Malinga SL 583 27.32 4.97 678 v Ban at Colombo (RPS) 2007
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points HS Rating
1= (+1) Shahid Afridi Pak 382! 382 v Ban at Dambulla 2010
( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 382 454 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
3 ( – ) Shane Watson Aus 367 385 v Pak at Sydney 2010
4 ( – ) Jacques Kallis SA 350 506 v WI at Bridgetown 2001
5 ( – ) Daniel Vettori NZ 336 354 v Aus at Auckland 2010
*Indicates a provisional rating
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