Cricket news: A series win against India will take Australia to No. 3 in the Reliance Mobile ICC Test rankings
Two-match Test series against India is going to offer Australia a chance to climb to the third spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC Test rankings leaving incumbent No. 3 Sri Lanka behind. The two-match Test series kick starts in Mohali from 1st of
the October, while the second and the final Test of the series would be played at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
Australia would start the series in fourth place with 113 rating points in its account, two points behind No. 3 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 and just one ahead of its Ashes Rivals, England cricket team. The series provides the Kangaroos a prospect to move ahead of Sri Lankans,
given they win the Test series. A 1-0 series win will bag Ponting’s team 4 rating points taking them to 117, while a 2-0 whitewash of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 will add 4 rating points to the account of Australia making the tally 118.
On the other side of the coin, a series defeat against the Men in Blue would strike back heavily against the Kangaroos dropping them behind their Ashes rival England ahead of the crucial Ashes series that begins in the latter half of November. The Kangaroos
will fall to 111 rating points in case they lose the series with a margin of 1-0, while the World Champions would slip to 110 rating points, if Dhoni and his men slap the visitors with a 2-0 whitewash.
The series result, on the other hand, would not affect India’s No. 1 position. The men in blue will retain the top spot at the Reliance Mobile ICC Test rankings table no matter how the two-match Test series ends up. India is currently leading the points
chart with 127 rating points and a 2-0 win against Australia will bag them 3 more points taking the tally to 130 while a vice-versa result would see the hosts losing five rating points skidding to 122. However the Indian side would retain its top position
in any case as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, following them on the points table is 8 points behind.
Coming to the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings, explosive opening batsman of India Virender Sehwag will have a chance to regain its lost top spot on the Test batsmen ranking table. Sehwag had lost the top place to Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka last month
after underperforming in the Test series against Sangakkara’s side. Sehwag trails the left-handed middle-order batsman by only 15 rating points and an impressive showing with the bat at Mohali would put him ahead of 32-year-old Kumar Sangakkara.
Alongside top-order Sehwag, his prolific teammate and the honorary Group Captain of Indian Air Force, Sachin Tendulkar and No. 3 test batsman Michael Clarke of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 is just five rating points ahead
of Tendulkar but follows No. 2 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429 by 45 points. Simon Katich of Australia is the only other batsman in both sides who stands inside top 10 while Laxman, Ghambir and Australian skipper Ricky Ponting rate in the top 20 with 12th, 13th
and 17th place apiece.
Coming to the Test blower’s rankings, India boasts Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh inside the top 10 with Zaheer Khan standing at 7th place while Harbhajan is ranked 10 in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers. On the other
hand, Australia has Mitchell Johnston at number six followed by Doug Bollinger at 14th position.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders, Virender Sehwag is the highest-ranked player from either side at sixth position while Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 of Australia is N0. 8.
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