New Test ratings

Donny · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:39 pm

Batsmen.

Trescothick drops 7 places and Vaughan, 1. This reflects their poor form in the West Indies. Ponting swaps with Lara as Lara's scores of 0 & 8 drag him down.

Kirsten's two failures in his last Test see him drop 3 places and out of the top ten. He's replaced by Martyn. Gilchrist and Smith both move up.

1 Matthew Hayden AUS 895 58.25

2 Rahul Dravid IND 884 57.42

3 Jacques Kallis SA 875 55.08

4 +1 Ricky Ponting AUS 856 54.69

5 -1 Brian Lara WI 836 51.33

6 Herschelle Gibbs SA 824 49.46

7 Inzamam-ul-Haq PAK 811 49.85

8 Sachin Tendulkar IND 783 57.19

9 +1 Venkata Laxman IND 756 47.40

10 +2 Damien Martyn AUS 740 48.24

11 Mark Richardson NZ 732 47.19

12 -3 Gary Kirsten SA 731 45.36

13 +1 Mahela Jayawardene SL 720 48.14

14 +1 Yousuf Youhana PAK 719 49.40

15 +2 Adam Gilchrist AUS 715 54.38

16 +3 Graeme Smith SA 689 55.53

17 -1 Michael Vaughan ENG 687 45.24

18 Taufeeq Umar PAK 686 46.00

19 +1 Mark Butcher ENG 685 35.32

20 -7 Marcus Trescothick ENG 684 41.47

Bowlers.

Harmison is the big mover, again.

1 Muttiah Muralitharan SL 906 22.90

2 Shoaib Akhtar PAK 861 23.41

3 Shaun Pollock SA 847 21.33

4 Shane Warne AUS 793 25.32

5 Glenn McGrath AUS 782 21.72

6 +3 Steve Harmison ENG 777 24.37

7 Makhaya Ntini SA 748 29.34

7 -1 Anil Kumble IND 748 28.32

9 -2 Jason Gillespie AUS 747 25.41

10 -1 Daryl Tuffey NZ 680 28.75

11 Harbhajan Singh IND 655 28.47

12 Chaminda Vaas SL 632 30.31

13 +1 Saqlain Mushtaq PAK 623 29.00

14 +1 Heath Streak ZIM 621 27.58

15 -2 Jacques Kallis SA 602 30.59

16 Zaheer Khan IND 595 34.72

17 Ray Price ZIM 591 35.87

18 Shabbir Ahmed PAK 589 21.79

19 +1 Chris Cairns NZ 579 29.47

20 -1 Shane Bond NZ 577 24.30

Blanch · Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Location: Back in Perth!

Cmon Donny, surely McGill sits in there somewhere....I mean statistically he does pretty well.

The Prototype · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:55 pm

I'm surprised that Steve Harmison is that far up, when he was playing in the one dayers down here against Aussie, he was all over the place. Sounds like he has found some form and is bowling better.

Donny · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:12 pm

Blanch, MacGilla got as high as #8, a few months back but has been steadily slipping and is now at 22.

Dave, when you get 7/12 and 6/61 in amongst 16 wickets @ 10.87 over your two most recent Tests, it does tend to bump you up the chart a bit, even when it is against the West Indies.

Over his 14 Tests, he has 57 wickets @ 24.36.

JLC · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:01 pm

I think too much importance is sometimes placed on these rankings.

The best bowler in the world is Shane Warne and the best batsman at the moment is Hayden (which the ranking have got right).

jlc

Donny · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:28 am

The ratings are a purely statistical analysis, not someone's opinion.

There's a formula which takes into account the relative rankings of teams.

Put simply, Murali will pick up more points for getting 20 wickets against the Aussies than Warne will for 20 wickets against them because Sri Lanka is rated below Australia.

Anyone wishing to find out more about these ratings can go here: http://cricketratings.pwcglobal.com/cricket/cricket.htm