Apr 15 2008
Ganguly back in top 20 in ICC test ranking!
Former Indian captain Saurav Ganguly after snatching the ‘Man of the Match’ in Kanpur test against South Africa is back in the top 20 players of ICC test batsman list. He is now 17th in the ICC Rankings which made him the fifth Indian in the top 20 list.
Ganguly scored 87 and 13 not out in the first and second inning respectively against South Africa in the Kanpur Test which helped him to ride 7 places and resched at 17th rank of ICC batsman list.
Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman are the other Indian batsmen in the top 20 players of the list. Tendulkar, who missed the last two Tests through injury, has dropped one place to 13th position while Dravid lies in 14th place, gaining one spot. Laxman, who scored 50 in Kanpur, stays at his earlier rank of 19th.
Sehwag who became India’s top ranked player on 12th position after hitting a triple century of 319 runs in Chennai, came down to 15th. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has climbed four places to reach 39th position.
South African captain Greame Smith who scored 69 and 35 at Kanpur test raises two places to reach 12th rank while Jacques Kallis slide three places to fifth position.
AB de Villiers falls five places to 26th spot while Ashwell Prince, Hashim Amla and Neil McKenzie have held steady in 23rd, 28th and 33rd positions respectively.
Sehwag may have slipped in batting rankings but he has climbed eight places in the bowling list and now sits in 51st position, two places ahead of Ishant Sharma, who took five wickets in his only appearance in the series in Kanpur.
Anil Kumble who missed the Kanpur test because of his groin injury remain India’s highest ranked bowler at position 7 despite of dropping one slot followed by Zaheer at 14th rank, the second highest ranked India’s bowler.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who won the player-of-the-series award for his 19 wickets, raised one place to 19th position, where just 13 ratings points separates him from 13th placed Andrew Flint off of England.
