Australia on top once again
Aus have been showing their ruling over the Cricket world
for last many years. There come many chances when they some
unbelievable beats from other Cricket playing nations but
they never ever accepted the loss. They want to live as
king; this insists them to crush all Cricket playing nations.
They have proved one of the best Cricket playing team in
the world. A recent exampled by Aus, in the Ashes test series,
they have beaten the England by 5-0 after very long time.
This increased the terror of crushing for ruling over the
Cricket on other Cricket playing nations and increased their
Test Cricket rating up to 135.
It is biggest victory against
England after 1940s to white wash in any Test Series. After
this series Aus have been awarded by Ashes Trophy and caused
also for Eng at second place in Test Cricket rating.
One more bad news for Eng is they may loss their second
place if Pakistani Team wins with 2-0 and the second position
will be captured by Pakistani Team if they cleans sweep
to South Africa in three test series which is being started
on Thursday in Centurion.
After facing the beat from South Africa 2-1 India has lost
their 4 rating points but they are still at 4th place in
ranking which are 5 points behind Pakistan. And Sri Lanka
has placed 5th place.
There is incensement in South Africa’s ranking after
wining and gaining 4 points because there is hurdle of points
of Sri Lanka. One match against Pakistan will see it equal
Sri Lanka's points haul and if Graeme Smith's side manages
to defeat Pakistan 2-0 or 3-0 then it move into fifth place
in the table as well as putting pressure on Pakistan and
India.
Smith will also be riding high on confidence after a return
to form with the bat. A man-of-the-match contribution of
94 and 55 in the third Test at Cape Town has lifted the
left-hander up 10 places to 18th position in the LG ICC
Player Rankings for Test batsmen.
He is joined in the top 20 by England's Ian Bell, up six
places to 17th position, despite his side being beaten by
10 wickets in the final Ashes Test at Sydney.
There are no movers in the top ten Test batting slots
with Ponting still on top, followed by Mohammed Yousuf of
Pakistan and England's Kevin Pietersen.
Further down the table, India opener Wasim Jaffer has
moved up 15 places to 51st following his century in the
first innings of the Cape Town Test, the third hundred of
his career to date.
For the bowlers, Australia's Stuart Clark has moved into
the top ten for the first time in the wake of a very successful
Ashes series.
The 31-year-old New South Welshman captured 26 wickets
against England and after just nine Test matches Clark has
already taken 47 wickets at an average of 17.80.
Shaun Pollock of South Africa is another player moving in
the right direction in the LG ICC Player Rankings for Test
bowlers. The former captain, named man of the series against
India, has risen one place to ninth spot in the list but
he is not the highest ranked South Africa player; that honour
still goes to fast bowler Makhaya Ntini, who remains in
second position.
Ntini still trails Sri Lanka's
Muttiah Muralidaran at the head of that list with the retiring
duo of Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne bowing out of Test
cricket in third and fourth positions respectively.
Brett Lee has moved up five places to 15th place in the
LG ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers and is now just
short of his best-ever rating, achieved more than six years
ago, while England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff and Pakistan
fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar have slipped out of the top ten.
Just as he has decided to hang up his boots, Warne has
established himself as one of the top all-rounders in the
game. The player, who has scored more Test runs than anyone
else in history without recording a hundred in that form
of the game, has moved into the top five in the LG ICC Player
Rankings for Test all-rounders also, edging out Irfan Pathan
of India.
Jacques Kallis is still ranked as the top all-rounder,
followed by Flintoff, Pollock and New Zealand spinner Daniel
Vettori.
