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India can overtake Australia and capture second place in ODI team rankings
NAPIER: India will go second in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table if it wins its upcoming five-match series in New Zealand 5-0.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team currently lies in third position, some four ratings points behind second-placed Australia and five behind top team South Africa.
A clean sweep for India will put it ahead of Ricky Ponting’s men by a fraction of a point but it would remain just behind the Proteas in what would be an extraordinarily tightly packed leader board with one ratings point separating the top three ODI teams in world cricket.
For its part, New Zealand can move up to third ahead of India if it wins the series 4-1 or better but it will drop as low as sixth if it suffers a 5-0 defeat.
To see exactly what upcoming results will do to the ICC ODI Championship table go to http://icc-cricket.yahoo.com/rankings/iccrankingpredictor/predictor-odi.html.
Meanwhile, the New Zealand v India series is an opportunity for some of the top players to make further gains in the rankings. Dhoni is currently enjoying top spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen but team-mate Yuvraj Singh is hot on his heels in third position so the captain will need to be in top form if he is going to remain on top by the time the fifth ODI of the series has come and gone.
On paper, at least, India has a distinct edge over its host in that department of the game with four batsmen in the top 20 – Gautam Gambhir in 12th place and Virender Sehwag in 15th – not to mention Sachin Tendulkar in 21st position, compared to just one New Zealand player (Ross Taylor in 16th place).
But it is the Black Caps’ bowling that has most impressed of late with captain Daniel Vettori currently leading the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers and Kyle Mills now in third spot, with a third bowler, Jacob Oram, in 19th place.
By contrast, India has just one bowler in the top 20 with Zaheer Khan occupying 12th position.
All in all, it promises to be a hard-fought and fascinating series with two of the world’s top three bowlers taking on two of the world’s top three batsmen.
Upcoming ODI fixtures:
3 Mar – New Zealand v India (ODI), Napier
6 Mar – New Zealand v India (ODI), Wellington
8 Mar – New Zealand v India (ODI), Christchurch
11 Mar – New Zealand v India (ODI), Hamilton
14 Mar – New Zealand v India (ODI), Auckland
Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship (as of 2 March)
Rank Team Rating
1 South Africa 125
2 Australia 124
3 India 120
4 New Zealand 114
5 Pakistan 111
6 England 108
7 Sri Lanka 105
8 West Indies 91
9 Bangladesh 46
10 Zimbabwe 23
11 Ireland 19
12 Kenya 0
Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Player Rankings (as of 2 March)
Batsmen
Rank Player Team Points Highest Ranking
1 MS Dhoni Ind 809 806 v WI at Kingston 2006
2 Mike Hussey Aus 798 863 v NZ at Perth 2007
3 Yuvraj Singh Ind 790 754 v Eng at Bangalore 2008
4 Chris Gayle WI 783 804 v Aus at Mumbai 2006
5 S.Chanderpaul WI 769 ! 769 v NZ at Napier 2009
6 Graeme Smith SA 741 792 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
7 Kevin Pietersen Eng 730 834 v Aus at Antigua 2007
8 Mohd Yousuf Pak 716 777 v SA at Rawalpindi 2003
9 AB de Villiers SA 715 733 v Ban at Dhaka 2008
10 Ricky Ponting Aus 705 832 v NZ at Hobart 2007
11 K Sangakkara SL 704 760 v Ind at Rajkot 2007
12 Gautam Gambhir Ind 703 696 v SL at Karachi 2008
13 R Sarwan WI 696 798 v Ind at St Kitts 2006
14 Jacques Kallis SA 695 816 v WI at Johannesburg 2004
15 Virender Sehwag Ind 692 774 v NZ 2003
16= Herschelle Gibbs SA 685 750 v SL at Durban 2003
Ross Taylor NZ 685 699 v Australia 2009
18 Andrew Symonds Aus 684 778 v Ind at Nagpur 2007
19= Shoaib Malik Pak 683 690 v WI at Abu Dhabi 2008
Salman Butt Pak 683 698 v SL at Karachi 2009
Bowlers
Rank Player Team Points Highest Ranking
1 Daniel Vettori NZ 727 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
2 N Kulasekara SL 724* 749 v Pak at Lahore 2009
3 Kyle Mills NZ 719 713 v WI at Wellington 2009
4 Nathan Bracken Aus 700 806 v SL at St George's 2007
5 M Muralidaran SL 696 913 v NZ at Sharjah 2002
6 Shakib Al Hasan Ban 687 ! 687 v Zim at Dhaka 2009
7 Stuart Broad Eng 673 701 v SA at Trent Bridge 2008
8 M Mortaza Ban 671 678 v Ind at Port-of-Spain 2007
9= Andrew Flintoff Eng 662 755 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
Zaheer Khan Ind 662 700 v SA at Dhaka 2003
10= Mitchell Johnson Aus 660 726 v Ban at Darwin 2008
Jerome Taylor WI 660 688 v SA at Cape Town 2008
12 Ajantha Mendis SL 655* 659 v Pak at Karachi 2009
13 Johan Botha SA 653*! 653 v Aus at Perth 2009
14 Zaheer Khan Ind 645 700 v SA 2003
15 Umar Gul Pak 640 ! 640 v SL at Lahore 2009
16 Sohail Tanvir Pak 639* 673 v WI at Abu Dhabi 2008
17 Daren Powell WI 636 686 v Aus at St George's 2008
18 James Hopes Aus 635 646 v Aus 2009
19 Jacob Oram NZ 629 768 v Aus at The Oval 2004
20= Brett Lee Aus 625 853 v SA at Melbourne 2006
Shahid Afridi Pak 625 685 v Ban 2008
All-rounders
Rank Player Team Points HS Rating
1 Shakib Al Hasan Ban 403! 403 v Zim at Dhaka 2009
2 Andrew Flintoff Eng 366 544 v SL at The Rose Bowl 2004
3 Jacob Oram NZ 350 383 v WI at Queenstown 2008
4 Shoaib Malik Pak 340 402 v WI at Brisbane 2005
5 Chris Gayle WI 336 511 v Zim at Harare 2003
*indicates provisional rating.
!indicates career-highest rating |
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