Cricket Update: Impact of Melbourne and Durban Test on the ICC Test rankings of players
The recently concluded Melbourne and Durban Test, featuring Australia-England and India-South Africa respectively, have seen English and Indian players moving up on the Reliance Mobile ICC Test Player Rankings table while Australian and South Africa players
losing their rankings.
England top-order batsman Jonathan Trott has moved to his career-best No. 3 ranking in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsman after playing a pivotal role in his team’s crushing an innings and 157 runs victory over the Aussies at Melbourne
Cricket Ground.
Trott scored an unbeaten 168 in the fourth Ashes Test to lead England from the front in setting an imposing lead of 415 runs in their first innings after Australia limped to paltry 98 runs in their first innings. The match was eventually won by the tourists
by an innings and 157 runs as England were able to claim an Ashes urn on Australian soil after a gap of 24 years. With 839 rating points, Trott trails No. 2 Test batsman Sachin Tendulkar of India by just 9 points. The two can swap places depending on their
performance in the finales of their respective Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757.
Alastair Cook has moved one place in upward direction reaching 13th position while Kevin Pietersen climbed four steps on the ladder reaching 21st spot.
The new rankings did not bring good news for the Australian batsmen as their batsmen have slipped from their places owing to their continuous disappointing performance in the ongoing Ashes series.
Michael Hussey has fallen four places to reach the No. 10 which he shares with Sri Lankan Thilan Samaraweera. The 29-year-old right-handed batsman Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 after falling three places is
now a No. 24 Test batsman. The poor Aussie captain Ricky Ponting, who has had a struggling 2010 season with the bat, will end the year at 29th place, one behind his talismanic English counterpart Andrew Strauss.
Coming to impact on the Reliance Mobile ICC Players Ranking by the clash of two other Test cricketing giants, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772 has reached just one below his career best ranking of No. 8 by
breaking into the list of top 10. Laxman is the third Indian batsman sitting in the top 10. Young batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar stands No. 2 on the table while the opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429 is enjoying fourth place on the rankings table with 822 rating points.
South African batsmen, on the other hand, failed to retain their rankings as Jacques Kallis dropped two places to fifth, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 fell one spot to sixth and the Proteas captain Graeme Smith has dropped down by three places reaching 14th
spot on the rankings table. Hashim Amla has also been dropped out of the top ten batsmen and now sits at No. 12
Another prominent move on the rankings table was Indian spearhead pacer Zaheer Khan who has climbed to fourth place in the ICC Test bowlers rankings besides James Anderson of England. Zaheer’s progress has come on the back of his six wickets in the Durban
Test against South Africa which India has won by 87 runs.
The leading spinner of India, Harbhajan Singh also made an impact in the latest rankings as he has lifted two places to eighth position after finishing 6 for 80 in Durban. Indian pace bowler S. Sreesanth has also improved his ranking by six places and he
is now in 27th position.
South African pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Styne is still comfortably leading the bowlers rankings table after claiming eight wickets in the lost Durban Test and is just three rating points short off becoming the second South Africa bowler and 20th in the world
cricket to reach the 900-point mark.
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