ICC Cricket Rankings

[Moss]

Pietersen is still #2 despite not performing particularly well recently? Interesting...

Glad to see Anderson shooting up the rankings as he's improving all the time. Flintoff's ODI bowling is also great. His batting, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired!

Bell and Cook - also good to see their rise in ODIs.

Thanks for the updates.

[darksideofthemoon]

ICC Cricket ODI Rankings 8 September 2007

Batting

2 (-) - Pietersen
14 (-) - Bell
25 (+3) - Collingwood
36 (-3) - Trescothick
38 (-4) - Flintoff
40 (-4) - Strauss
81 (+1) - Jones
88 (-2) - Solanki
100 NEW - Joyce

Bowling

10 (-) - Flintoff
14 (-) - Anderson
57 (-1) - Plunkett
63 (-3) - Gough
64 (+3) - Lewis
65 (+37) - Broad
67 (+18) - Panesar
73 (-3) - Collingwood
82 (-6) - Mahmood

[adamberry]

Please tell me I'm not the only one confused as to how the likes of Jones and Joyce can go up the rankings despite not playing?!?

[Rachael]

By standing still whilst others go backwards?

[Ernest]

Originally Posted by Rachael

By standing still whilst others go backwards?

That makes the rankings of no use at all surely?, in a lot of cases players are not just standing still - they appear in the ranking even though retired.

[darksideofthemoon]

ICC Cricket ODI Rankings 14 October 2007

Batting

4 (-2) - Pietersen
23 (-9) - Bell
26 (-1) - Collingwood
42 (-6) - Trescothick
44 (-6) - Flintoff
44 (-4) - Strauss
78 (+27) - Cook
86 (+29) - Shah
89 (-3) - Jones
93 (-5) - Solanki


Bowling

12 (-2) - Flintoff
15 (-1) - Anderson
46 (+19) - Broad
61 (-4) - Plunkett
63 (+4) - Panesar
69 (+4) - Collingwood
70 (-7) - Gough
70 (-6) - Lewis
87 (-5) - Mahmood
88 (+144) - Sidebottom

[darksideofthemoon]

Test Rankings at 18 November 2007
Batsmen
6 (-1) - Pietersen
16 (-1) - Collingwood
17 (+1) - Cook
20 (+1) - Bell
21 (+1) - Strauss
24 (+1) - Trescothick
26 (+1) - Vaughan
36 (-1) - Flintoff
75 (+2) - Prior
79 (+2) - Jones
93 (+2) - Shah
96 (+2) - Read
Bowlers
9 (-2) - Hoggard
13 (-) - Flintoff
15 (+1) - Panesar
24 (+3) - Harmison
33 (+2) - Anderson
42 (+1) - Sidebottom
46 (+2) - Tremlett
55 (-) - Plunkett
57 (-) - Mahmood
74 (-)- Collingwood
81 (-) - Lewis
84 (-1) - Vaughan
92 (+1) - Pietersen
100 NEW - Bell

Batting
1 Ponting 2 Kallis 3 Sangakkara 4 Yousuf 5 Hussey 6 Pietersen 7 Khan 8 Hayden 9 Chanderpaul 10 Clarke
Bowling
1 Murali 2 Ntini 3 Steyn 4 Clark 5 Lee 6 Bond 7 Kumble 8 Pollock 8 Hoggard 10 Akhtar

[sittingduck]

Originally Posted by darksideofthemoon

Batting
1 Ponting 2 Kallis 3 Sangakkara 4 Yousuf 5 Hussey 6 Pietersen 7 Khan 8 Hayden 9 Chanderpaul 10 Clarke
Bowling
1 Murali 2 Ntini 3 Steyn 4 Clark 5 Lee 6 Bond 7 Kumble 8 Pollock 8 Hoggard 10 Akhtar

So this would mean the top team in the world at present looks something like...

Hayden, Yousuf, Ponting, Kallis, Hussey, Pietersen, Sangakarra, Clark, Ntini, Steyn, Murali.

[Rachael]

Well.. it's not quite that simple.. simply because if you pick the top 6 batsmen it's easy to get a decent 5th bowler.. but tougher to get two openers. In addition... there's no seperate rating for glovemen: what matters for stumpers is class behind the stumps... and Sangakkara's batting ranking is neither here nor there.

The best you could do with an obsession on rankings would be this:

1. Hussey
2. Khan
3. Ponting
4. Pietersen
5 Yousuf
6. Kallis
7. Read
8. Clark
9. Ntini
10. Steyn
11. Murali

Eleven great speciaists... and an AWESOME tail

[greg]

What a shock no place for Hayden.

Probably a bigger shock is the fact you left out Ramprakash.