Sri Lanka’s captain Kumar Sangakkara replaced Indian great batsman Sachin Tendulkar to be on the top of the International Cricket Council’s Test batsman rankings.
Sangakkara snatched the first place from Tendulkar as he scored a tremendous century against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760. He smashed a fantastic 150 score in Sri Lanka’s first innings in the second Test match between the two countries in Colombo.
The rain hit match resulted in a stalemate, but Sangakkara’s innings helped him climb up the ranking with 882 rank points whereas Tendulkar stands second on 859 rank points. Tendulkar’s team mate, opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429 claimed the third place with 850 points.
Tendulkar had a short stint at the first position as he made modest scores in the recently concluded Test series against New Zealand in India. Tendulkar claimed the first spot last month after his heroics in the Test series against Australia for the first
time since 2002. However, he only managed to score a half century in four innings against New Zealand.
Sangakkara who scored 228 runs in the ongoing series against West Indies is on top of his form and felt “proud of the honour.”
Jacques Kallis- the South African all rounder took the fourth position with 806 pints while his team-mate http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in the recently finished
Test series in Abu Dhabi.
England’s Ashes superstar Jonathan Trott also found his way into the top ten Test batsman rankings for the first time after his knock out performance against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in first Test match at Gabba which ended up in a draw after a beautiful innings with Alastair
Cook. Trott was lifted to the eighth spot after playing an unbeaten innings of 135 runs which helped his side earn the draw.
Whereas, the ICC bowling rankings saw South African http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn retained his first position with 860 points and England’s Graeme Swann coming second best with 831 points.
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Australian record-breaking bowler, Peter Siddle also climbed up the rankings with 621 points as he took six wickets including a hat-trick on the first day of the Ashes Test match.
England’s Steven Finn also moved up to 19th position with 552 points after the conclusion of the first Ashes Test match as he also took six wickets during Australia’s first innings.
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