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West Indies trio achieves career-best bowling rankings

Mar 16, 2010 Sports

Gayle, Chanderpaul among top 10 batsmen

West Indies fast bowlers Darren Sammy, Dwayne Bravo and Kemar Roach have all achieved career-best rankings in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Player Rankings.
Sammy, Bravo and Roach shared 23 wickets between them in the series against Zimbabwe which the West Indies won 4-1 and have been rewarded with big jumps in the latest rankings which were released on Monday.
Sammy, who took eight wickets in the series, has vaulted 37 places to share 20th spot with Bangladesh’s Abdur Razzak, Bravo has jumped 20 places to occupy 24th spot after picking up seven wickets while Roach has rocketed 23 places to sit in 80th position after snapping up eight wickets in the series.
West Indies Skipper Chris Gayle rises to fourth position in the batting list while Shivnarine Chanderpaul (9th) is the only other West Indian in the top 10. West Indies remained at number 8 in the team ranking, only above Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Ireland and Kenya.
West Indies (72 points) and Bangladesh (52) are the only Test teams with less than 100 points in the ODI rankings.
Australia fast bowler 2009 ICC Cricketer of the Year Mitchell Johnson returned to the top 10 after a stellar performance against New Zealand.
The 28-year-old took 12 wickets in the series against New Zealand which has helped him lift four places to 10th position.
Johnson now becomes Australia’s highest-ranked bowler after Doug Bollinger slipped two places to 14th after managing just four wickets in five ODIs.
In the Player Rankings for ODI batsmen, Gayle continued his upward movement, leap-frogging India’s Sachin Tendulkar into fourth position.
Gayle, who was in seventh position at the start of the month, scored 273 runs, including three half-centuries and a Man-of-the-series performance in the 5-match series against Zimbabwe.
The batsmen slipping in the table are Chanderpaul and Brendon McCullum of New Zealand. Both have dropped one place each to ninth and 19th positions, respectively.
There is no change in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders with Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan still leading the field.
Meanwhile, the positions in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship at the annual cut-off date of 1 April have also been confirmed with Australia finishing number-one and India claiming second place, 11 ratings points behind.
For their achievements, Australia will be presented with a cheque of US$175,000 while India will collect US$75,000.
This will be in addition to US$175,000 which the India side will collect for claiming the top spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC Test Championship. South Africa, which finished second on the Test table, will receive US$75,000.

Team Ranking
1 Australia 133
2 India 122
3 South Africa 117
4 New Zealand 114
5 England 110
6 Sri Lanka 108
7 Pakistan 104
8 West Indies 72
9 Bangladesh 52
10 Zimbabwe 27
11 Ireland 25
12 Kenya 2

Batsmen
1 (-) MS Dhoni
2 (-) Mike Hussey
3 (-) AB de Villiers
4 (+1) Chris Gayle
5 (-1) S. Tendulkar
6 (-) Ricky Ponting
7 (-) Graeme Smith
8 (+1) Jacques Kallis
9 (-1) S. Chanderpaul
10 (-) K. Sangakkara

Bowlers
1 (-) Daniel Vettori
2 (+1) Shakib Al Hasan
3 (-1) Ray Price
4 (-) N. Kulasekara
5 (+1) Shane Bond
6 (-1) Kyle Mills
7 (-) Harbhajan Singh
8 (-) Dale Steyn
9 (-) Shahid Afridi
10 (+4) Mitchell Johnson

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