Mahendra Singh Dhoni lost his status as the top rated ODI batsman in the world to Adam Gilchrist but Irfan Pathan climbed one place to second position in the latest LG ICC one-day bowling charts.
DUBAI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni lost his status as the top rated ODI batsman in the world to Adam Gilchrist but Irfan Pathan climbed one place to second position in the latest LG ICC one-day bowling charts.
Gilchrist leapfrogged his captain Ricky Ponting and Dhoni on the strength of his consistent performances in Bangladesh and the left-hander now holds a slender three-point advantage over the explosive Indian wicketkeeper-batsman, who assumed the top position from Ponting for the first time less than two weeks ago.
Pathan is now in second place in the ODI bowling rankings behind South African Shaun Pollock. The Indian left-arm pacer gained one spot, as did injured Kiwi pace spearhead Shane Bond, at the expense of fourth placed Glenn McGrath who missed a lot of cricket recently to be at home with his ailing wife.
Pathan is also third on the all-rounders' list behind Pollock and England's Andrew Flintoff.
Ponting's modest ODI series in Bangladesh saw him slip to third in the batting list.
Australia dominate the one-day batting rankings with four of its players in the top five as Andrew Symonds and Michael Hussey are placed fourth and fifth respectively.
Symonds has his best-ever haul of rating points while Hussey has entered the top five for the first time. He gained one spot at the expense of South African skipper Graeme Smith.
Indian captain Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh are placed ninth and 10th respectively while Sachin Tendulkar has fallen out of the top 20. Harbhajan Singh is placed 10th among one-day bowlers.
New Zealand's Daniel Vettori hangs on to fifth spot while Australian Nathan Bracken has moved up one spot to seventh in the bowling charts. Sri Lankans Mutthiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas dropped one rank each to eighth and ninth.
Australia's clean sweep in Bangladesh means it retained its 13 point lead over South Africa at the top of the ODI Championship table, with India a further three points back.
Pakistan, currently fourth, trails its arch-rivals by two points while leading New Zealand by just one.
If the West Indies achieve a clean-sweep in their home series against Zimbabwe, they will improve their rating by two points to 91, 12 behind seventh-placed England.
But if Zimbabwe, placed ninth, can win the series, it will close the gap considerably on the home side.
A 4-3 Zimbabwe win will see it rise nine rating points to 51 while dropping the West Indies to 79 while a 6-1 win for the African side will lift it to 57 points (West Indies 74).
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