Kallis and Amla move up the batting rankings PDF Print E-mail
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Written by ICC Press Office   
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:01
Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla have made a big impression on the latest ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen released today.

Kallis, who scored his 34th Test century during the match, has returned to the top five by gaining four places to sit in fourth position. He is now just ahead of his captain Graeme Smith, who slips three places, and not far behind the Sri Lanka pair of Mahela Jayawardena in second position and Kumar Sangakkara in third.

India’s Gautam Gambhir clings on to top spot despite scoring just 13 runs in the match but the gap has narrowed significantly with now just 17 ratings points separating first position from fifth.

For his part, Hashim Amla has broken into the top 10 in the rankings for the first time in his career following his magnificent 253 not out in the first innings, which help to set up South Africa’s victory in the first Test at Nagpur by an innings and six runs.

Amla is now just three ratings points behind Sachin Tendulkar, who was also successful with the bat during the match as he notched up his record 46th Test century in the second innings.

In the ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers, it’s a case of South Africa and India trading spinners in the top 10 with slow left-armer Paul Harris moving up three places to ninth spot and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh dropping four places to 12th.

Harris took four wickets in the match, including the prize scalp of centurion Tendulkar in the second innings.

Dale Steyn increased his lead at the top of the rankings with match figures of 34.5-7-108-10, which marks the fourth 10-wicket haul of his career to date. His first-innings figures of 7-51 are a career-best.

The 26-year-old is fast approaching the best points rating of his career which he enjoyed following the Ahmedabad Test against the same opposition in 2008.

The other main mover resulting from the first Test was India’s Ishant Sharma. The 21-year-old fast bowler was wicketless in the match and as a result drops seven places, out of the top 20 to 22nd position.

There are no changes in the top five of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders with Kallis still out in front, followed in second place by New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori and England’s Graeme Swann in third position.

ICC Test Player Rankings (as of 10 February)

BATSMEN
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1. (-) Gautam Gambhir IND 840 55.46 886 v SL at Kanpur 2009
2. (+1) Mahela Jayawardena SL 836 53.96 883 v Ind at Ahmedabad 2009
3. (+1) Kumar Sangakkara SL 835 55.10 938 v Eng at Kandy 2007
4. (+4) Jacques Kallis SA 825 55.16 935 v NZ at Centurion 2007
5. (-3) Graeme Smith SA 823 50.55 843 v Eng at Joburg 2010
6. (-) Virender Sehwag IND 811 52.62 854 v SA at Kolkata 2004
7. (-2) Michael Clarke AUS 805 50.19 855 v Eng at Headingley 2009
8. (-1) Ricky Ponting AUS 783 55.67 942 v Eng at Adelaide 2006
9. (-) Sachin Tendulkar IND 778 55.35 898 v Zim at Nagpur 2002
10. (+13) Hashim Amla SA 775! 44.47 775 v Ind at Nagpur 2010
11. (-1) Shiv Chanderpaul WI 765 48.70 901 v NZ at Napier 2008
12. (-1) Ross Taylor NZ 763 42.15 775 v Pak at Wellington 2009
13. (-1) Mohammad Yousuf PAK 761 53.07 933 v WI at Karachi 2006
14. (-1) Younus Khan PAK 754 50.09 880 v SL at Lahore 2009
15. (-1) AB de Villiers SA 735 43.67 745 v Eng at Centurion 2009
16. (-1) Rahul Dravid IND 720 53.75 892 v Pak at Kolkata 2005
17. (-1) Michael Hussey AUS 709 53.04 921 v WI at Kingston 2008
18. (-1) Thilan Samaraweera SL 707 51.14 747 v Ind at Kanpur 2009
19. (-1) Simon Katich AUS 706 44.91 720 v Eng at Cardiff 2009
20. (-1) VVS Laxman IND 696 45.70 753 v Aus at Sydney 2004
BOWLERS
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1. (-) Dale Steyn SA 891 23.04 897 v Ind at Ahmedabad 2008
2. (-) Mitchell Johnson AUS 780 28.45 825 v Eng at Cardiff 2009
3. (-) Mohammad Asif PAK 757* 23.20 792 v Aus at Sydney 2010
4. (-) Muttiah Muralitharan SL 752 22.71 920 v Ban at Kandy 2007
5. (-) Graeme Swann ENG 732* 30.69 756 v SA at Durban 2009
6. (-) Zaheer Khan IND 722! 33.02 722 v SA at Nagpur 2010
7. (-) Morne Morkel SA 680* 32.26 691 v Eng at Joburg 2010
8. (+1) Stuart Broad ENG 673* 35.38 697 v SA at Durban 2009
9. (+3) Paul Harris SA 671* 33.41 705 v Eng at Centurion 2009
10. (+1) Stuart Clark AUS 668* 23.86 863 v WI at Bridgetown 2008
11. (-1) Makhaya Ntini SA 665 28.82 863 v Ind at Durban 2006
12. (-4) Harbhajan Singh IND 653 31.30 765 v NZ at Wellington 2002
13. (-) James Anderson ENG 639 34.80 710 v Aus at Edgbaston 2009
14. (-) Shakib Al Hasan BAN 626* 29.39 633 v Ind at Chittagong 2010
15. (+1) Daniel Vettori NZ 613 33.61 681 v Aus at Auckland 2000
16. (+1) Danish Kaneria PAK 599 34.27 723 v Eng at Multan 2005
17. (+1) Jerome Taylor WI 598* 35.64 717 v Eng at Kingston 2009
18. (+1) Peter Siddle AUS 597* 31.53 617 v Eng at The Oval 2009
19. (+1) Chris Martin NZ 592 33.61 643 v Eng at Lord's 2004
20. (+1) Ryan Sidebottom ENG 590* 28.24 769 v SA at Lord's 2008


ALL-ROUNDERS
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points HS Rating
1. (-) Jacques Kallis SA 469 616 v Pak at Durban 2002
2. (-) Daniel Vettori NZ 412! 412 v Pak at Napier 2009
3. (-) Graeme Swann ENG 306*/* 307 v SA at Durban 2009
4. (-) Mitchell Johnson AUS 302 384 v Eng at Cardiff 2009
5. (-) Shakib Al Hasan BAN 295*/* 303 v Ind at Chittagong 2010

*Indicates a provisional rating
!Indicates currently on highest career points
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