South Africa opener Hashim Amla has claimed a career-best fourth position to date in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen after stellar performances in the five ODI series against the West Indies which concluded on Thursday.
Amla, who had started the series in 25th position, has climbed 21 places after scores of 102, 92, 34, 129 and 45 to now share the fourth spot with India’s Sachin Tendulkar.
The 27-year-old from Durban had entered the last three matches of the series in 12th position and jumped eight places after scoring 208 runs. A series aggregate of 402 runs also earned him the player of the series award.
AB de Villiers, who was the second most successful run-getter in the series, has consolidated his third position and is now just two ratings points behind India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni who has lost his top position to Australia’s Michael Hussey after deciding to skip on the ongoing triangular series in Zimbabwe. A player loses half a percent of his ratings points for every match he misses and, as such, Dhoni has already lost 12 ratings points.
However, South Africa skipper Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis have failed to retain their positions.
Smith, who scored 119 runs in the series, has dropped out of the top 10 in 12th position after starting the series in eighth position while Kallis has slipped one place to eighth spot after scoring 225 runs in the series.
For the West Indies, Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan have slipped to sixth and 28th positions respectively, while Shivnarine Chanderpaul has retained his ninth position after scoring 157 runs in the series.
After a successful ODI series, Amla will now be chasing India opener Virender Sehwag’s number-one position in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen when the three-Test series starts in Port of Spain from Thursday 10 June.
Amla is in second place and trails Sehwag by 21 ratings points. A good performance in Port of Spain could potentially put him ahead of the Indian to give South Africa top positions in the batting, bowling and all-rounders’ table. Dale Steyn and Jacques Kallis lead the field in the Test bowlers and all-rounders’ categories.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers, South Africa’s Dale Steyn has climbed three places to sixth spot after claiming four wickets in three matches.
Morne Morkel, who was the most successful bowler in the series with 13 wickets, has rocketed 13 places to occupy his highest position to date, 26th, while the West Indies’ Kieron Pollard, who took 11 wickets, has also jumped 13 places to sit in 78th position.
However, South Africa off-spinner Johan Botha has dropped four places to 18th position after managing only four wickets in five matches.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for all-rounders, South Africa’s Jacques Kallis has climbed two places to third spot after bagging three wickets besides scoring 225 runs.
In the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship, South Africa has joined India on 119 ratings points but is ranked third when the ratings are calculated beyond the decimal point. However, if India loses to Sri Lanka in Harare on Saturday, India will drop behind South Africa in third position on 118 ratings points.
In contrast, India’s victory over Sri Lanka in Harare will put it on 120 ratings points – one ahead of South Africa.
Forthcoming ODIs
Zimbabwe triangular series (Zimbabwe, India, Sri Lanka)
5 June – India v Sri Lanka, Harare
7 June – Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka, Harare
9 June – Final, Harare
Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship (as of 5 June, after the end of West Indies-South Africa ODI series and before the start of India-Sri Lanka ODI in Harare)
Rank Team Rating
1 Australia 133
2 India 119
3 South Africa 119
4 New Zealand 114
5 England 110
6 Sri Lanka 108
7 Pakistan 104
8 West Indies 70
9 Bangladesh 52
10 Zimbabwe 32
11 Ireland 25
12 Kenya 2
(Developed by David Kendix)
ICC ODI Player Rankings (as of 5 June, after the West Indies-South Africa ODI series and before the start of India-Sri Lanka ODI in Harare)
Batsmen
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1 (+1) Mike Hussey Aus 811 53.71 865 v NZ at Perth 2007
2 (-1) MS Dhoni Ind 807 51.13 837 v Aus at Delhi 2009
3 ( – ) AB de Villiers SA 805 43.56 814 v WI at Dominica 2010
4= (+8) Hashim Amla SA 751*! 54.84 751 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2010
( – ) S.Tendulkar Ind 751 45.12 887 v Zim at Sharjah 1998
6 (-1) Chris Gayle WI 738 39.42 808 v Zim at Harare 2003
7 (-1) Ricky Ponting Aus 732 43.12 831 v NZ at Hobart 2007
8 (-1) Jacques Kallis SA 721 45.73 818 v WI at Johannesburg 2004
9 ( – ) S.Chanderpaul WI 711 41.77 778 v Eng at Guyana 2009
10 (+3) T.Dilshan SL 703! 34.40 703 v Zim at Bulawayo 2010
11 (-1) K.Sangakkara SL 694 36.55 755 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2006
12 (-4) Graeme Smith SA 691 40.08 785 v Ind at Kolkata 2005
13 (-2) Virender Sehwag Ind 683 34.25 787 v NZ at Auckland 2003
14 (+1) P.Collingwood Eng 680 36.47 691 v Ban at Mirpur 2010
15 (-1) Yuvraj Singh Ind 671 37.09 786 v WI at Kingston 2009
16 (+5) Virat Kohli Ind 663* 49.84 667 v SL at Bulawayo 2010
17 ( – ) Ross Taylor NZ 650 35.82 698 v Aus at Adelaide 2009
18 (-2) Suresh Raina Ind 649 37.96 661 v SL at Bulawayo 2010
19= ( – ) B.McCullum NZ 648 28.99 666 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2009
( – ) Shane Watson Aus 648 40.64 649 v NZ at Auckland 2010
Bowlers
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) Daniel Vettori NZ 761 31.21 4.14 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
2 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 711 30.73 4.08 717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
3 (+1) N.Kulasekara SL 688 27.71 4.55 727 v NZ at Colombo (RPS) 2009
4 (-1) Ray Price Zim 680 35.36 3.76 722 v WI at Guyana 2010
5 ( – ) Kyle Mills NZ 658 26.45 4.68 723 v Aus at Melbourne 2009
6 (+3) Dale Steyn SA 640 30.65 5.30 662 v Zim at Benoni 2009
7 ( – ) Shahid Afridi Pak 639 34.61 4.61 667 v Ind at Mirpur 2008
8 ( – ) Mitchell Johnson Aus 637 25.71 4.94 729 v Ban at Darwin 2008
9 (-3) Harbhajan Singh Ind 636 32.80 4.30 738 v WI at Bridgetown 2002
10 ( – ) Stuart Broad Eng 633 25.98 5.14 703 v SA at Trent Bridge 2008
11 ( – ) Jacob Oram NZ 629 30.66 4.35 770 v Aus at The Oval 2004
12= ( – ) James Anderson Eng 628 29.93 4.94 700 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
(+3) Ajantha Mendis SL 628* 18.28 4.34 642 v SA at Centurion 2009
14 (-1) Doug Bollinger Aus 616* 21.87 4.41 634 v NZ at Hamilton 2010
15= (+1) Nathan Hauritz Aus 599 31.76 4.61 622 v Ind at Guwahati 2009
(+1) Andrew Flintoff Eng 599 24.38 4.39 758 v Ban at Dhaka 2003
17 (+2) Abdur Razzak Ban 597 27.15 4.46 644 v Eng at Bridgetown 2007
18 (-4) Johan Botha SA 595 41.21 4.63 665 v Aus at Centurion 2009
19= (-3) M.Muralidaran SL 593 22.98 3.91 913 v NZ at Sharjah 2002
(+1) Saeed Ajmal Pak 593* 31.36 4.10 610 v NZ at Abu Dhabi 2009
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points HS Rating
1 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 426 454 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
2 ( – ) Shane Watson Aus 381 384 v Pak at Sydney 2010
3 (+2) Jacques Kallis SA 350 506 v WI at Bridgetown 2001
4 (-1) Daniel Vettori NZ 349 354 v Aus at Auckland 2010
5 (+1) Shahid Afridi Pak 336 352 v Ken at Nairobi 2002
*Indicates a provisional rating
