ICC MEDIA RELEASE, Dubai, 12 October 2011: ICC World Twenty20 champion England and world champion India resume their battle for position in the Reliance ICC ODI Championship table when they go head to head in the five-ODI series, which starts in Hyderabad on Friday.
England is currently in fourth position, leading fifth-placed India by just a ratings point. However, all this can change depending how the series pans out. And with number-one ranked Australia also ready to lock horns with third-placed South Africa from next Wednesday at Centurion, there is the possibility of plenty of movement at the top of the order.
In the second half of the table, Bangladesh hosts the West Indies in a three-ODI series from Thursday with the home side eyeing an upward movement.
Eighth-ranked West Indies leads Bangladesh in ninth place by 15 ratings points but the team placings will reverse if Bangladesh wins all the three matches. If this happens, Bangladesh will gain a place on the table as it would earn a swing of 16 ratings.
To find out exactly how the forthcoming matches will affect the team rankings, please click here. Unlike the Test Championship table, the ODI Championship table is updated after every match.
Meanwhile, in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen, England’s Jonathan Trott, who won the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Cricketer of the Year award at the LG ICC Awards in London last month, is in fourth position and will be aiming to improve his ranking further.
The 30-year-old trails second-ranked AB de Villiers of South Africa by 54 ratings points and third-ranked Shane Watson of Australia by 10 ratings points. But given he is in a qualification period for batsmen*, it is likely that he will move even further up the ladder depending on how he performs in the series.
Trott, who has scored 1,596 runs in 35 ODIs, including 1,113 runs from 24 matches this year, had also played an integral role in England’s 3-0 win over India earlier this English summer when he scored 111 runs which had helped him gain two places in the rankings.
The next highest-ranked England batsman after Trott is captain Alastair Cook who is in 42nd position while Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell are in 52nd and 55th positions, respectively with Ravi Bopara sitting in 65th spot.
India boasts three batsmen inside the top 15 with captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni leading from the front. He is in sixth position and will be keen to regain the coveted number-one position he surrendered to AB de Villiers after the tri-nation series in Sri Lanka last August. Dhoni trails fifth-ranked Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka by 13 ratings points while he is 16 ratings points behind Trott.
The other India batsmen aiming to climb up the ladder include Virat Kohli (ninth), Gautam Gambhir (14th) and Suresh Raina (30th).
The highest-ranked Bangladesh and West Indies batsmen are Shakib Al Hasan and Lendl Simmons in 23rd and 49th, respectively.
In the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers, England’s Graeme Swann will be hoping to strengthen his position on top of the tree. The off-spinner leads second-ranked New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori by 27 ratings points.
In the absence of James Anderson and Stuart Broad, Tim Bresnan is England’s highest-ranked bowler in 27th position.
Likewise, India will also be without its four frontline bowlers – Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel and Harbhajan Singh. In their absence, Praveen Kumar is the highest-ranked India bowler in 21st position.
Bangladesh left-arm spinners Abdur Razzak and Shakib Al Hasan are inside the top 20 in 14th and 17th positions, respectively, followed by West Indies’ pace duo of Ravi Rampaul and Darren Sammy in 30th and 31st positions, respectively.
Series schedule:
Bangladesh v West Indies
13 Oct – First ODI (d/n), Mirpur
15 Oct – Second ODI (d/n), Mirpur
18 Oct – Third ODI (d/n), Chittagong
India v England
14 Oct – First ODI (d/n), Hyderabad
17 Oct – Second ODI (d/n), New Delhi
20 Oct – Third ODI (d/n), Mohali
23 Oct – Fourth ODI (d/n), Mumbai
25 Oct – Fifth ODI (d/n), Kolkata
Reliance ICC ODI Championship (as of 12 October, before the start of Bangladesh and West Indies, and India and England ODI series)
Rank Team Rating
1 Australia 130
2 Sri Lanka 119
3 South Africa 116
4 England 113
5 India 112
6 Pakistan 101
7 New Zealand 90
8 West Indies 78
9 Bangladesh 63
10 Zimbabwe 44
11 Ireland 41
12 Netherlands 15
13 Kenya 0
(Developed by David Kendix)
Reliance ICC ODI Rankings
Batsmen
Rank Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 Hashim Amla SA 867 57.25 890 v Ind at Centurion 2011
2 AB de Villiers SA 804 45.68 823 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2010
3 Shane Watson Aus 760 43.38 776 v SL at Hambantota 2011
4 Jonathan Trott Eng 750* 51.48 753 v Ind at Durham 2011
5 K.Sangakkara SL 747 38.00 758 v Aus at Hambantota 2011
6 MS Dhoni Ind 734 49.48 837 v Aus at Delhi 2009
7 Michael Clarke Aus 730 45.81 751 v SL at Melbourne 2008
8 Mike Hussey Aus 729 50.53 865 v NZ at Perth 2007
9 Virat Kohli Ind 725 43.46 804 v Ban at Mirpur 2011
10 T.Dilshan SL 690 35.10 766 v NZ at Colombo (RPS) 2011
14 G.Gambhir Ind 669 40.73 723 v NZ at Vadodara 2010
23 Shakib Al Hasan Ban 643 34.69 660 v Zim at Mirpur 2010
29 Tamim Iqbal Ban 611 29.64 632 v Eng at Mirpur 2010
30 Suresh Raina Ind 600 35.21 661 v SL at Bulawayo 2010
42 Alastair Cook Eng 565*! 38.97 565 v Ind at Cardiff 2011
49= Lendl Simmons WI 534* 30.56 544 v Ind at Antigua 2011
Imrul Kayes Ban 534 29.20 567 v Aus at Mirpur 2011
52 Kevin Pietersen Eng 533 40.13 842 v Aus at Antigua 2007
55 Ian Bell Eng 526 34.38 693 v Ind at Lord’s 2007
59 M.Rahim Ban 514 25.68 522 v Zim at Harare 2011
65 Ravi Bopara Eng 499 30.83 518 v Aus at Lord’s 2009
66 Kieron Pollard WI 495*! 21.73 495 v Ind at Jamaica 2011
68 Darren Bravo WI 488*! 33.45 488 v Ind at Jamaica 2011
82 Craig Kieswetter Eng 456* 30.63 462 v Ind at The Oval 2011
87 Dwayne Bravo WI 448 24.17 493 v Eng at Ahmedabad 2006
95 Devon Smith WI 433 26.68 459 v Pak at St Lucia 2011
97 Shahriar Nafees Ban 429 32.75 606 v Ber at Antigua 2007
Bowlers
Rank Player Team Pts Avge Econ HS Rating
1 Graeme Swann Eng 728! 23.84 4.43 728 v Ind at Cardiff 2011
2 Daniel Vettori NZ 701 31.48 4.12 789 v Eng at Christchurch 2008
3 Mitchell Johnson Aus 680 25.30 4.86 729 v Ban at Darwin 2008
4 Dale Steyn SA 663 27.62 5.11 668 v Ind at Nagpur 2011
5 Morne Morkel SA 661 23.93 4.89 704 v Ind at Centurion 2011
6 Doug Bollinger Aus 659* 22.83 4.49 676 v Eng at Hobart 2011
7 Saeed Ajmal Pak 658 26.85 4.21 693 v WI at Barbados 2011
8 Ray Price Zim 653 33.58 3.81 722 v WI at Guyana 2010
9 L.Tsotsobe SA 652* 18.74 4.49 655 v Ban at Mirpur 2011
10 Lasith Malinga SL 639 25.03 4.93 679 v Ban at Colombo (RPS) 2007
14 Abdur Razzak Ban 622 27.77 4.49 675 v Zim at Chittagong 2010
17 Shakib Al Hasan Ban 610 29.38 4.31 717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
21 Praveen Kumar Ind 600 33.76 5.00 652 v NZ at Dambulla 2010
27 Tim Bresnan Eng 590 36.60 5.31 606 v Ind at The Oval 2011
30 Ravi Rampaul WI 573 30.25 5.01 584 v Pak at Guyana 2011
31 Darren Sammy WI 555 44.45 4.57 602 v Can at Jamaica 2010
40 Kemar Roach WI 503* 25.62 4.77 525 v Eng at Chennai 2011
41 R.Ashwin Ind 502* 26.32 4.91 508 v Eng at Lord’s 2011
44 Ravindra Jadeja Ind 501* 42.39 5.02 592 v SL at Dambulla 2010
52 Jerome Taylor WI 490 26.82 4.80 626 v NZ at Christchurch 2009
54 Rubel Hossain Ban 483* 33.48 5.51 484 v Zim at Bulawayo 2011
72 Amit Mishra Ind 457* 30.26 4.48 469 v WI at Jamaica 2011
74 Shafiul Islam Ban 453! 34.77 5.96 453 v Zim at Bulawayo 2011
80 Naeem Islam Ban 439* 39.27 4.80 467 v Eng at Chittagong 2011
84 Mahmudullah Ban 428! 48.75 5.15 428 v Zim at Bulawayo 2011
90 Nazmul Hossain Ban 419* 33.38 5.12 493 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
91 Kieron Pollard WI 417* 32.17 5.24 446 v SA at Trinidad 2010
95 Devendra Bishoo WI 414* 21.57 4.18 418 v Ind at Antigua 2011
All-rounders
Rank Player Team Pts HS Rating
1 Shane Watson Aus 415 429 v SL at Kandy 2011
2 Shakib Al Hasan Ban 392 453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
3 M.Hafeez Pak 346! 346 v Zim at Harare 2011
16 Tim Bresnan Eng 242 247 v Ind at Lord’s 2011
21 Darren Sammy WI 226 252 v SA at Antigua 2010
26 Ravindra Jadeja Ind 205*/* 253 v SL at Dambulla 2010
*indicates provisional rating; a batsman qualifies for a full rating after a minimum of 40 started innings; a bowler qualifies for a full rating after he has conceded 1,500 runs.
!indicates career-highest rating
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