PricewaterhouseCooper 19th Jan '05

[Oliver]

Is anybody as upset as me, that PricewaterhouseCooper have ceased to sponsor the cricket rankings?

There was I, champing at the bit to see whether Matthew Hoggard had finally made it into the top ten, and all the former sponsor's website would say, was that they had handed over the ratings to the ICC and their new sponsors.

So off I trollied to the new site, where there are no current player rankings.

Very disappointing.

Whether you accept the information of the rankings or not, it's still quite useful to see a formulaic and all inclusive list of "the greats" at any one time (in their opinion.)

If the ICC are unable to show off Ted Dexter's updated lists as regularly as did PricewaterhouseCooper I for one, will be very ********** off.

[flanflinger]

Oliver,

Try here, it has the same message but also includes the ratings

http://cricketratings.pwcglobal.com/cricket/cricket.htm

Don't know how long it will be running for..

I too hope they are as thorough with their updates as PWC have always been

[Oliver]

Yup, that's the website I use... no rankings and those that were there yesterday hadn't been updated following the latest Test match.

Sniff, sniff.

[flanflinger]

Oliver,

When I open it up I see the up-to date ratings...

There are two sites

http://www.pwcratings.com/cricket/cricket.htm

This has the message but no ratings

and

http://cricketratings.pwcglobal.com/cricket/cricket.htm

Which has the message and the up-to date ratings - try both and see

[Oliver]

Yes, that's incredibly irritating. Both links take me to the same page.No rankings... just an apology.

Perhaps the ICC version will be updated beyond January 10th tomorrow.

[flanflinger]

wierd.. wonder why I can see it and you can't?

[flanflinger]

PHP Code:

LG ICC Player Rankings
 Test placings (January 18)
 
 Batting:    Team Rating Ave
 1 R Dravid Ind 882 57.52
 2 J Kallis SA 878 54.83
 3 R Ponting Aus 847 55.48
 4 B Lara WI 845 52.85
 5 D Martyn Aus 830 50.16
 6 V Sehwag Ind 808 51.73
 7 S Tendulkar Ind 778 57.44
 8 H Gibbs SA 771 48.88
 = M Hayden Aus 771 54.54
 10 A Strauss Eng 769 60.10
 
 Other leading England players:
 13 M Trescothick Eng 740 43.59
 24 G Thorpe Eng 662 43.91
 27 M Vaughan Eng 627 44.41
 34 M Butcher Eng 575 34.59
         
 LG ICC Player Rankings
 Test placings (January 18)
 
 Bowling:     Team Rating Ave
 1 G McGrath Aus 866 21.43
 2 M Murali'ran SrL 850 22.87
 3 S Pollock SA 829 21.98
 4 Shoaib A Pkn 811 24.78
 5 A Kumble Ind 780 27.87
 6 J Gillespie Aus 774 25.15
 7 M Ntini SA 761 29.72
 8 S Harmison Eng 739 27.94
 9 S Warne Aus 732 25.63
 10 M Hoggard Eng 716 30.90
 
 Other leading England players:
 14 A Flintoff Eng 628 35.94
 19 A Giles Eng 586 36.96 


Just for you Olly...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4186907.stm

[Oliver]

Thanks a lot FF... presumably at some point I will be able to see these things for myself... I've just had a bit of a tinker with my pc... still no good.

Can't work our what's going on.

[flanflinger]

They are now online

http://www.cricketratings.com/

See for yourself!!

[Oliver]

Quite right, quite right.

I'm there Flanflinger, thanks a lot.

I hope they update as often as Pwc did. Though I can't help thinking that the delay that I suffered from, was a bad sign.