ICC ODI ranking update, Hashim Amla tops ODI batsmen rankings
South Africa’s Hashim Amla is still number one in ICC player rankings as on January 20, 2011.
He has retained this position since November 2, 2010 when he took this place from fellow South African cricketer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887.
Amla was at his best in 2010, when he scored 1058 runs from 15 matches at an amazing average of 75.57.
He was the only player to score more than 1000- runs in that calendar year and also reaped five centuries in the process. Though, in the recent ODI series against India, Hashim has failed a couple of times but still he retains the top spot. His current rating
is 854 points.
Another Proteas, AB de Villiers, is ranked second with a rating of 809 points. He also had a magnificent year scoring 964 runs from 16 matches at a staggering average of 80.33.
Australia’s “Mr. Cricket”, Michael Hussey, clings on to his third spot. Followed by, Indian skipper Mahindra Singh Dhoni at fourth and rising superstar http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virat-Kohli-c95424 at fifth.
Kohli snagged this position from veteran Sri Lankan, Tillakaratne Dilshan, who slips two places down to number seven spot. South African all-rounder, Jacques Kallis, also slips two places and is now at ninth.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s Sachin Tendulkar and Aussie skipper, Ricky Ponting, move down the queue and are now placed at 11th spot. Both superstars were previously ranked ninth.
On the other hand, Gautham Gambhir makes it to the top ten ODI batsmen list.
South Africa and India dominate the batsmen rankings with three players each, while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 have two players and Sri Lanka have one player in the top ten ODI batsmen.
England, Pakistan and New Zealand don’t have any batsmen in the top 15.
On the other hand, New Zealand’s, Daniel Vettori, tops the chart of ICC ODI bowling ranking.
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Stuart Broad, who is currently recovering from an injury, dropped one position and is now at sixth. Nuwan Kulasekera is at seventh after slipping three spots. India’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Praveen-Kumar-c82600 makes a leap of two places and is now in the top ten.
England dominates bowling rankings with three bowlers in the top ten, while Bangladesh has two representatives. Sri Lanka, India, New Zealand, Australia and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 have one player each.
Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 are ranked 13th and 15th respectively.
In ODI team rankings, World Champions, Australia are on top of the table with 129 rating points. India are placed at second with 122 rating points followed closely by another South-Asian side, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, who are at 118 rating points.
South Africa, England and Pakistan are placed fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.
There are a number of ODI series, which are under way, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746. So changes in the rankings are expected especially for the players in the above mentioned cricket teams.
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