De Villiers and Collingwood achieve career-best rankings while Smith and Pietersen slide, Broad and Anderson storm into the top 10
England has moved up a place while South Africa has dropped a position in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table at the end of their series on Friday.
England’s 2-1 series win with washed out matches in Johannesburg and Durban, has earned it three ratings points which has helped it go ahead of Pakistan in fifth position while the series loss has pushed South Africa behind India into third spot.
World champion Australia continues to enjoy a comfortable eight-point advantage over second-placed India but the middle of the table is quite congested with only 13 ratings points separating third-placed South Africa with seventh-placed Sri Lanka.
And with India to go head to head with Sri Lanka in the five-ODI series in Rajkot from 15 December, there could be more reshuffle depending how the series pans out.
A 5-0 clean sweep will take India to 126 ratings points, four behind Australia, while Sri Lanka’s 5-0 series win will put both the sides on 115 ratings points. Sri Lanka’s 3-2 series win will lift it to 110 ratings points and will drop India to 119 ratings points but ahead of South Africa.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen, South Africa’s AB de Villiers and Paul Collingwood of England have achieved career-best rankings to date.
De Villiers, who scored 145 runs in the three ODIs, has climbed two places to third position while Collingwood, who won the player of the series award for his 193 runs, has rocketed six places to 12th position in the latest rankings which were released on Friday.
However, the news is not so good for South Africa captain Graeme Smith and former England captain Kevin Pietersen. Smith, after scoring just 68 runs in the series, has dropped five places to eighth spot while Pietersen has fallen four places and out of the top 20 in 21st position after managing just 52 runs.
The batting list is still headed by India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni while Mike Hussey of Australia is in second position.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers, England fast bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson have stormed up the order.
Broad, who took six wickets in two matches, has leaped eight places to seventh position while Anderson, who was the most successful bowler of the series with eight wickets, has rocketed 13 places to share ninth spot with Dale Steyn of South Africa who has slipped two places.
South Africa off-spinner Johan Botha has returned to the top 10 after climbing three places to 10th position.
The bowlers’ list is still headed by New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori with Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan in second spot and Ray Price of Zimbabwe in third place.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders, Collingwood has climbed three places and now sits just outside the top five in seventh position.
Shakib Al Hasan leads the field with Shane Watson of Australia second, India’s Yuvraj Singh third and a three-way tie for fourth spot between Jacques Kallis of South Africa, Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi and New Zealand’s Jacob Oram.
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Reliance Mobile ODI Championship (as of 5 December, after South Africa – England ODI series)
Rank Team Rating
1 Australia 130
2 India 122
3 South Africa 119
4 New Zealand 112
5 England 109
6 Pakistan 108
7 Sri Lanka 106
8 West Indies 76
9 Bangladesh 55
10 Zimbabwe 26
11 Ireland 25
12 Kenya 2
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Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Rankings (as of 5 December, after South Africa – England ODI series)
Batsmen
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) MS Dhoni Ind 817 50.04 837 v Aus at Delhi 2009
2 ( – ) Mike Hussey Aus 801 54.07 865 v NZ at Perth 2007
3 (+2) AB de Villiers SA 749 39.64 754 v Eng at Cape Town 2009
4 ( – ) Ricky Ponting Aus 738 43.19 831 v NZ at Hobart 2007
5 ( – ) Chris Gayle WI 736 39.94 808 v Zim at Harare 2003
6 (+1) S.Chanderpaul WI 733 41.66 778 v Eng at Guyana 2009
7 (+1) Yuvraj Singh Ind 732 37.44 786 v WI at Kingston 2009
8= (+1) S. Tendulkar Ind 729 44.50 887 v Zim at Sharjah 1998
(-5) Graeme Smith SA 729 40.67 785 v Ind at Kolkata 2005
10 ( – ) Jacques Kallis SA 695 45.25 818 v WI at Johannesburg 2004
11 ( – ) V. Sehwag Ind 683 33.98 787 v NZ at Auckland 2003
12 (+6) P. Collingwood Eng 678 36.11 688 v SA at Cape Town 2009
13= (-1) H. Gibbs SA 672 36.30 752 v SL at Durban 2003
( – ) M. Yousuf Pak 672 42.79 779 v Zim at Harare 2002
15 (-1) B. McCullum NZ 666! 29.42 666 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2009
16 (-1) Michael Clarke Aus 659 42.62 751 v SL at Melbourne 2008
17 (-1) K. Sangakkara SL 654 35.79 755 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2006
18= (+1) S. Jayasuriya SL 638 32.54 841 v Ban at Pietermaritzburg 2003
(+1) G. Gambhir Ind 638 37.03 702 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2009
20 (+1) R. Sarwan WI 636 43.04 784 v Ind at St Kitts 2006
Bowlers
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Econ HS Rating
1 ( – ) Daniel Vettori NZ 719 31.71 4.15 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
2 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 716! 30.36 4.03 716 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
3 ( – ) Ray Price Zim 701*! 33.57 3.73 701 v SA at Centurion 2009
4 ( – ) N. Kulasekara SL 687 27.41 4.50 727 v NZ at Colombo (RPS) 2009
5 ( – ) Kyle Mills NZ 685 26.45 4.68 723 v Aus at Melbourne 2009
6 (+1) Shane Bond NZ 652 20.87 4.28 810 v SA at St George’s 2007
7 (+8) Stuart Broad Eng 646 25.96 5.13 703 v SA at Trent Bridge 2008
8= (+13) James Anderson Eng 638 29.93 4.94 700 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
(-2) Dale Steyn SA 638* 29.23 5.28 662 v Zim at Benoni 2009
10 (+3) Johan Botha SA 637 38.93 4.47 665 v Aus at Centurion 2009
11= (-3) Shahid Afridi Pak 636 34.52 4.61 667 v Ind at Dhaka 2008
(-3) Harbhajan Singh Ind 636 32.97 4.27 738 v WI at Bridgetown 2002
13 (-3) Ajantha Mendis SL 635* 16.36 4.14 642 v SA at Centurion 2009
14= (-3) Jacob Oram NZ 630 30.76 4.37 770 v Aus at The Oval 2004
(-3) M. Muralidaran SL 630 22.98 3.91 913 v NZ at Sharjah 2002
16 (-3) M. Johnson Aus 629 26.18 4.98 729 v Ban at Darwin 2008
17 (-1) Nathan Bracken Aus 626 24.36 4.41 808 v SL at St George’s 2007
18 (-1) Nathan Hauritz Aus 622*! 30.29 4.30 622 v Ind at Guwahati 2009
19 ( – ) M. Mortaza Ban 612 29.82 4.57 653 v Zim at Dhaka 2009
20 ( – ) Saeed Ajmal Pak 610*! 27.51 3.92 610 v NZ at Abu Dhabi 2009
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Rating
1 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 453! 453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
2 ( – ) Shane Watson Aus 355! 355 v Ind at Guwahati 2009
3 ( – ) Yuvraj Singh Ind 337 356 v Aus at Delhi 2009
4= ( – ) Jacques Kallis SA 321 506 v WI at Bridgetown 2001
(+1) Shahid Afridi Pak 321 352 v Ken at Nairobi 2002
(+1) Jacob Oram NZ 321 383 v WI at Queenstown 2008
*Indicates a provisional rating
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