Mills tops world ODI rankings - BLACKCAPS jump to fourth

BLACKCAPS bowler Kyle Mills has taken the world number one ODI bowling ranking after his outstanding performance at the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa.

The BLACKCAPS now hold three of the top five bowling places with Daniel Vettori third and Shane Bond fifth.

The BLACKCAPS success in reaching the final of the tournament has also helped to propel them to fourth place in the world team ODI rankings - a jump of three places.

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Mills claims number-one bowling spot as Lee returns to top 20 and Watson breaks into top five all-rounders’ list

 

ICC Champions Trophy winner Australia strengthens its grip on top position in Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship

 

New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Mills has claimed the number-one position for the first time in his career in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Player Rankings for bowlers at the end of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 which was retained by Australia at Centurion on Monday.

 

Mills, who started the elite eight-team tournament in number-two position trailing Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Kulasekara by seven points, now leads his Sri Lanka counterpart by 10 points. They are the only two bowlers in the 700-point mark, which in ranking terms marks out a player as truly great.

 

Mills has been in the top 10 since December 2007 and finished as the third leading wicket-taker in the tournament with nine wickets to play a leading role in New Zealand’s progress to the final where it lost to Australia by six wickets.

 

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has slipped to third in the latest rankings after hamstring injury forced him to miss the final. A player loses one per cent of his points for every match missed.

 

The biggest mover in the bowling table is Australia’s Brett Lee who has returned to the top 20 after finishing with six wickets in the tournament. The 32-year-old has jumped five places to 16th spot.

 

Outside the top 20, Australia off-spinner Nathan Hauritz and fast bowler Shane Watson have also made good upward progress. Hauritz, who took five wickets in the tournament, has achieved his career-best ranking to date of 37th position while Watson’s six wickets in the event have helped him leap three places to share 40th spot with Abdur Razzak of Bangladesh.

 

Peter Siddle, who won the ICC Emerging Player of the Year 2009 award at the LG ICC Awards in Johannesburg last week, has rocketed 40 places to 109th spot after claiming six wickets in the tournament.

 

In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni continues to lead the field with his vice-captain Yuvraj Singh a distant second.

 

The only major change in the top 20 is Australia captain Ricky Ponting who won the player of the tournament award. The Tasmanian has climbed one place to eighth while South Africa’s AB de Villiers has moved up to fourth after Michael Hussey failed to defend his position and dropped one place to fifth.

 

Also, Shoaib Malik’s slip by three places has benefitted Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara and ICC Test Player of the Year 2009 Gautam Gambhir of India. The two left-handers have moved up one place each to 15th and 16th respectively.

 

Outside the top 20, Watson, who hit back-to-back centuries in the semi-final and final, has vaulted 18 places to achieve his career-best ranking to date of 35th position.

 

However, the biggest mover in the batting table is Pakistan’s Umar Akmal who has rocketed 21 places to occupy 57th position while Grant Elliott of New Zealand has jumped 16 places to 51st position.

 

In the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders, Watson’s all-rounder performance in the ICC Champions Trophy (265 runs and six wickets) has helped him break into the top five for the first time in his career.

 

The 28-year-old Queenslander now shares fourth spot with Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi after jumping nine places.

 

The list is still headed by Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan while Yuvraj Singh of India is second and Jacques Kallis of South Africa third.

 

In the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship, Australia has strengthened its number-one position by finishing unbeaten in the tournament. The four-time world champion and two-time ICC Champions Trophy winner leads second-placed India by four ratings points.

 

Australia had come into the tournament in third place and gained three ratings points while South Africa and India as dropped two and six ratings points after being eliminated in the group stage. India managed to finish second but South Africa’s fall was greater as it finished third after starting at top spot.

 

New Zealand has made the most of the ICC Champions Trophy as it has jumped three places to fourth in the latest update. New Zealand had entered the tournament in seventh position on 105 ratings points and finished in fourth place on 110 ratings points.

 

The ODI action will resume when Australia travels to India later this month for a seven-match series which starts at Vadodara from 25 October.

 

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Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship (as of 6 October, after the end of ICC Champions Trophy 2009, pre-event ratings in brackets)

 

Rank Team Rating

 

1 Australia 128 (125)

2 India 124 (126)

3 South Africa 121 (127)

4 New Zealand 110 (105)

5 Pakistan 109 (109)

6 England 107 (105)

7 Sri Lanka 106 (108)

8 West Indies 76 (78)

9 Bangladesh 55

10 Zimbabwe 26

11 Ireland 25

12 Kenya 0

 

(Developed by David Kendix)

 

ICC One-Day Rankings (as of 6 October, after the end of ICC Champions Trophy 2009)

 

Batsmen

 

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating

 

1 ( - ) MS Dhoni Ind 814 49.67 831 v NZ at Colombo (RPS) 2009

2 ( - ) Yuvraj Singh Ind 766 37.75 794 v WI at Kingston 2009

3 ( - ) Graeme Smith SA 763 41.03 792 v Ban at Dhaka 2008

4 (+1) AB de Villiers SA 761 39.60 765 v NZ at Centurion 2009

5 (-1) Mike Hussey Aus 754 51.71 863 v NZ at Perth 2007

6 ( - ) S.Chanderpaul WI 747 41.66 793 v Eng at Guyana 2009

7 ( - ) Chris Gayle WI 744 39.94 804 v Aus at Mumbai 2006

8 (+1) Ricky Ponting Aus 726 43.16 832 v NZ at Hobart 2007

9 (-1) Sachin Tendulkar Ind 723 44.48 887 v Zim at Sharjah 1998

10 ( - ) Virender Sehwag Ind 710 34.32 774 v NZ at Auckland 2003

11 ( - ) Jacques Kallis SA 701 45.10 816 v WI at Johannesburg 2004

12 ( - ) Herschelle Gibbs SA 699 36.30 750 v SL at Durban 2003

13 ( - ) M. Yousuf Pak 695 42.96 777 v SA at Rawalpindi 2003

14 ( - ) Michael Clarke Aus 681 42.62 756 v SL at Melbourne 2008

15 (+1) K. Sangakkara SL 659 35.79 760 v Ind at Rajkot 2007

16 (+1) Gautam Gambhir Ind 655 37.42 713 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2009

17 ( - ) Kevin Pietersen Eng 652 46.67 834 v Aus at Antigua 2007

18 (-3) Shoaib Malik Pak 651 34.98 690 v WI at Abu Dhabi 2008

19 ( - ) R. Sarwan WI 646 43.04 798 v Ind at St Kitts 2006

20 ( - ) S. Jayasuriya SL 641 32.54 838 v Ban at Pietermaritzburg 2003

 

Bowlers

 

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Avge Econ HS Rating

 

1 (+1) Kyle Mills NZ 710 26.20 4.66 723 v Aus at Melbourne 2009

2 (-1) N. Kulasekara SL 700 27.41 4.50 749 v Pak at Lahore 2009

3 (-1) Daniel Vettori NZ 698 31.89 4.16 790 v Eng at Christchurch 2008

4 ( - ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 686 31.28 4.08 709 v Zim at Bulawayo 2009

5 ( - ) Shane Bond NZ 666 20.38 4.24 811 v SA at St George's 2007

6 (+1) Ajantha Mendis SL 652* 16.36 4.14 664 v SA at Centurion 2009

7 (-1) Nathan Bracken Aus 648 24.36 4.41 806 v SL at St George's 2007

8= ( - ) Dale Steyn SA 645*! 27.22 5.20 645 v Eng at Centurion 2009

( - ) M. Muralidaran SL 645 22.98 3.91 913 v NZ at Sharjah 2002

( - ) M. Mortaza Ban 645 29.82 4.57 678 v Ind at Port-of-Spain 2007

11= (+1) Shahid Afridi Pak 638 34.69 4.62 685 v Ind at Dhaka 2008

( - ) Mitchell Johnson Aus 638 25.65 4.87 726 v Ban at Darwin 2008

13 ( - ) Johan Botha SA 632 39.27 4.52 664 v Aus at Centurion 2009

14 ( - ) Stuart Broad Eng 625 26.59 5.13 701 v SA at Trent Bridge 2008

15 ( - ) Jerome Taylor WI 623 26.54 4.76 688 v SA at Cape Town 2008

16 (+5) Brett Lee Aus 620 23.00 4.72 853 v SA at Melbourne 2006

17 ( - ) Andrew Flintoff Eng 618 24.38 4.39 755 v Ban at Dhaka 2003

18 (+1) Harbhajan Singh Ind 616 32.94 4.26 735 v WI at Bridgetown 2002

19 (+3) Zaheer Khan Ind 612 29.18 4.86 700 v SA at Dhaka 2003

20 (-2) Jacob Oram NZ 611 30.99 4.39 768 v Aus at The Oval 2004

 

All-rounders

 

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Rating

 

1 ( - ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 427 450 v Zim at Bulawayo 2009

2 ( - ) Yuvraj Singh Ind 351 362 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2009

3 ( - ) Jacques Kallis SA 336 505 v WI at Bridgetown 2001

4= ( - ) Shahid Afridi Pak 320 360 v Ind at Dhaka 2008

(+9) Shane Watson Aus 320! 320 v NZ at Centurion 2009

 

*Indicates a provisional rating

 

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