Jacques Kallis surpasses http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sachin-Ramesh-Tendulkar-c87800 as World’s No. 1 Test batsman – Cricket News Update
The prolific South African all-rounder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jacques-Henry-Kallis-c65247, became the World’s No. 1 Test batsman after the batting maestro of India, Sachin Tendulkar, opted to miss the ongoing Test series against West Indies following a hectic cricketing season.
An ICC press release on Friday, June 24, 2011, confirmed that the batting prodigy of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 has lost the coveted No. 1 spot in favour of Kallis.
As per ICC ranking rules, a missed Test match costs a player one percent of his rating points. Tendulkar, who is currently at No. 2 on the Reliance Mobile http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Test rankings table with 874 points, will further lose points as he will miss the next two matches
of the three-match series as well.
However, the cut in points due to the next two missed games is not expected to slip any further as the number three batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 of Sri Lanka, trails by 36 points.
Jacques Kallis sits at the top of the table with 883 ranking points while the former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alastair-Nathan-Cook-c42852,
stands at number five on the Test rankings table.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739, who is nursing his injured shoulder at home these days is the second Indian in the top 10.
The prolific middle-order batsman and the former Indian captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in the opening Test of the three-match series at Kingston, where he had played a startling innings of
112 runs. He moved up nine places to be placed 20th on the table.
Dravid, who was adjudged as the ICC Cricketer and ICC Test Player of the Year in 2004, slipped out of the top 20 in November last year, following a patchy performance in the Nagpur Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754.
Meanwhile, South African pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 of England trails Steyn by a considerable margin of 102 points.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 is at the fourth spot.
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