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Saturday, 20 February 2010 15:56
India's Virender Sehwag has moved to the top of the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after his heroics during the second Test against South Africa in Kolkata.

The opening batsman smashed 165 in the first innings and has gained five places in the latest rankings, displacing team-mate Gautam Gambhir at the top. The 31-year-old from New Delhi is now enjoying the highest rating of his illustrious career to date.

The news is good, too, for South Africa's Hashim Amla, whose two centuries in the match came so close to saving the match for the Proteas. He has gained no fewer than eight places in the latest rankings and now sits in second position, not far behind Sehwag.

India's other centurions in the match, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman, have also made significant gains in the batting rankings. Off the back of some excellent recent form Tendulkar has moved up a further three places and now sits in equal sixth position while Laxman's 143 not out has earned him six places, up to 14th spot.

India's bowlers have also made an impression with off-spinner Harbhajan Singh gaining five place to number seven in the ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers. Zaheer Khan has maintained his place at number six in the latest chart.

In the ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders, Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan continues his rise, gaining a further two places to sit in third position on the log.

The 22-year-old scored 87 and 100 in his team's one-off Test against New Zealand at Hamilton and moves ahead of England's Graeme Swann and Australia's Mitchell Johnson in the process.

ICC Test Player Rankings (as of 20 February)

BATSMEN
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1. (+5) Virender Sehwag IND 863! 53.52 863 v SA at Kolkata 2010
2. (+8) Hashim Amla SA 842! 47.26 842 v Ind at Kolkata 2010
3. (-1) Mahela Jayawardena SL 836 53.96 883 v Ind at Ahmedabad 2009
4. (-1) Kumar Sangakkara SL 835 55.10 938 v Eng at Kandy 2007
5. (-4) Gautam Gambhir IND 824 54.86 886 v SL at Kanpur 2009
6= (+3) Sachin Tendulkar IND 805 55.56 898 v Zim at Nagpur 2002
6= (+1) Michael Clarke AUS 805 50.19 855 v Eng at Headingley 2009
8. (-4) Jacques Kallis SA 790 54.76 935 v NZ at Centurion 2007
9. (-4) Graeme Smith SA 786 49.99 843 v Eng at Joburg 2010
10. (-2) Ricky Ponting AUS 783 55.67 942 v Eng at Adelaide 2006
11. (-) Shiv Chanderpaul WI 765 48.70 901 v NZ at Napier 2008
12. (+1) Mohammad Yousuf PAK 761 53.07 933 v WI at Karachi 2006
13. (+1) Younus Khan PAK 754 50.09 880 v SL at Lahore 2009
14. (+6) VVS Laxman IND 748 46.64 753 v Aus at Sydney 2004
15. (-3) Ross Taylor NZ 744 42.31 775 v Pak at Wellington 2009
16. (-) Rahul Dravid IND 713 53.75 892 v Pak at Kolkata 2005
17. (-) Michael Hussey AUS 709 53.04 921 v WI at Kingston 2008
18. (-) Thilan Samaraweera SL 707 51.14 747 v Ind at Kanpur 2009
19. (-) Simon Katich AUS 706 44.91 720 v Eng at Cardiff 2009
20. (-1) AB de Villiers SA 699 42.87 745 v Eng at Centurion 2009
BOWLERS
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1. (-) Dale Steyn SA 867 23.51 897 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 729! 32.98 729 v SA at Kolkata 2010
7. (+5) Harbhajan Singh IND 712 30.94 765 v NZ at Wellington 2002
8. (-) Stuart Broad ENG 673* 35.38 697 v SA at Durban 2009
9. (+1) Stuart Clark AUS 668* 23.86 863 v WI at Bridgetown 2008
10. (-3) Morne Morkel SA 660* 32.91 691 v Eng at Joburg 2010
11. (-) Makhaya Ntini SA 665 28.82 863 v Ind at Durban 2006
12. (+1) James Anderson ENG 639 34.80 710 v Aus at Edgbaston 2009
13. (-4) Paul Harris SA 622* 35.12 705 v Eng at Centurion 2009
14. (+1) Daniel Vettori NZ 618 33.61 681 v Aus at Auckland 2000
15. (+1) Danish Kaneria PAK 599 34.27 723 v Eng at Multan 2005
16. (+1) Jerome Taylor WI 598* 35.64 717 v Eng at Kingston 2009
17. (+1) Peter Siddle AUS 597* 31.53 617 v Eng at The Oval 2009
18. (-4) Shakib Al Hasan BAN 592* 31.21 633 v Ind at Chittagong 2010
19. (+1) Ryan Sidebottom ENG 590* 28.24 769 v SA at Lord's 2008
20. (-1) Chris Martin NZ 587 33.78 643 v Eng at Lord's 2004


ALL-ROUNDERS
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points HS Rating
1. (-) Jacques Kallis SA 442 616 v Pak at Durban 2002
2. (-) Daniel Vettori NZ 398 412 v Pak at Napier 2009
3. (+2) Shakib Al Hasan BAN 322*/*! 322 v NZ at Hamilton 2010
3. (-1) Graeme Swann ENG 306*/* 307 v SA at Durban 2009
5. (-1) Mitchell Johnson AUS 302 384 v Eng at Cardiff 2009


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