Sri Lanka needs to win third Test to move ahead of Pakistan into fifth place and Mahela Jayawardena climbs back up in batting top 20 while Kushal Silva, Dimuth Karunarathne, Lakmal and Eranga make impressive gains in the ICC player ratings
Sri Lanka’s players have made impressive gains in the latest Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Tests released on Monday, following its nine-wicket win over Pakistan in the second Test in Dubai.
Leading the charge for Sri Lanka was former captain Mahela Jayawardena, also the player of the match in the Dubai Test.
Jayawardena, jumped seven places to 18th on the ratings, to thereby return to the top 20, following his knock of 129 in the first innings.
The other Sri Lanka batsmen to move up are openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Kaushal Silva.
Silva, who scored 95 and 58 in the Test, continued his impressive upward movement as he rocketed 55 places to a career-best 59th position. Karunaratne, who stroked an unbeaten 62 in the second innings to script Sri Lanka’s chase, rose 21 places to a best-ever 79th.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s pace duo of Shaminda Eranga and Suranga Lakmal have made moved up on the rankings for test bowling.
Lakmal’s match haul of six for 123 helped him rise 17 places to 66th. Eranga, on the other hand, jumped 12 places to a career-high of 45th.
Sri Lanka’’s Rangana Herath in fourth place is the highest ranked bowler on either side, with Saeed Ajmal closely following him in fifth place.
For Pakistan, captain Misbah-u-Haq in eighth place continues to be it’s highest-ranked batsman. Misbah, who scored 97 in the second innings, however dropped six ratings points to finish on 798, 19 behind seventh-ranked Australia captain Michael Clarke.
Younus Khan, who dropped down a place to tenth, is the other Pakistan batsman in the top 10. Outside the top 20, the only positive for Pakistan was Khurram Manzoor’s rise by five places to 60th.
Kumar Sangakkara in sixth, is still the highest ranked batsman on either side.
The batting table is still headed by South Africa’s AB de Villiers with Shivnarine Chanderpaul in second place. The bowlers’ table is topped by South Africa’s Vernon Philander, with teammate Dale Steyn in second position.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s nine-wicket win over Pakistan in the second Test in Dubai on Sunday means that its hopes of moving into fifth place on the ratings remains alive.
Sri Lanka currently leads the three-match series 1-0 and needs to win the Sharjah Test starting from Thursday, 16 January, to move ahead of Pakistan into fifth place.
Sri Lanka is presently ranked sixth with 88 points, while Pakistan is ranked fifth with 102 ratings points.
If Sri Lanka wins the Sharjah Test to win the series 2-0, it will jump from 88 ratings points to 95 ratings points while Pakistan will slip from 102 ratings points to 94 ratings points.
Pakistan, on the other hand, had slipped to fifth position at the end of the Ashes series and needs to either draw or win the Sharjah Test to avoid dropping behind Sri Lanka on the Rankings table.
Reliance ICC Test Team Rankings table (as on 13 January, after the Australia v England series)
Rank Team Rating
1 South Africa 133
2 India 117
3 Australia 111
4 England 107
5 Pakistan 102
6 Sri Lanka 88
7 West Indies 88
8 New Zealand 75
9 Zimbabwe 34
10 Bangladesh 18
(Developed by David Kendix)
Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Tests (as of 13 January, after the Dubai Test)
Batsmen
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) AB de Villiers SA 912! 51.71 912 v Ind at Durban 2013
2 ( – ) S.Chanderpaul WI 876 51.93 901 v NZ at Napier 2008
3 ( – ) Ross Taylor NZ 871! 47.51 871 v WI at Hamilton 2013
4 ( – ) Hashim Amla SA 868 51.34 907 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2013
5 ( – ) C Pujara Ind 851*! 66.25 851 v SA at Durban 2013
6 ( – ) K Sangakkara SL 841 56.64 938 v Eng at Kandy 2007
7 ( – ) Michael Clarke Aus 817 51.40 900 v SL at Melbourne 2012
8 ( – ) Misbah-ul-Haq Pak 798 47.49 804 v SL at Abu Dhabi 2013
9 (+1) Graeme Smith SA 785 49.56 843 v Eng at Johannesburg 2010
10 (-1) Younus Khan Pak 783 51.78 880 v SL at Lahore 2009
11 ( – ) Virat Kohli Ind 739* 44.32 748 v SA at Johannesburg 2013
12 ( – ) Chris Rogers Aus 694*! 40.42 694 v Eng at Sydney 2014
13 ( – ) Angelo Mathews SL 686! 44.60 686 v Pak at Dubai 2014
14 ( – ) David Warner Aus 683 40.93 741 v Eng at Perth 2013
15 ( – ) Ian Bell Eng 682 45.41 822 v Ind at The Oval 2011
16 ( – ) Alastair Cook Eng 677 46.51 874 v Ind at Kolkata 2012
17 ( – ) Kevin Pietersen Eng 674 47.28 909 v WI at Headingley 2007
18 (+7) M Jayawardena SL 655 49.50 883 v Ind at Ahmedabad 2009
19 ( – ) Jonathan Trott Eng 641 46.45 856 v SL at Cardiff 2011
20 ( – ) Darren Bravo WI 636 44.68 709 v Aus at Port-of-Spain 2012
Selected Rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
22 (-4) Asad Shafiq Pak 621 37.08 680 v SA at Cape Town 2013
42 (-4) D Chandimal SL 551* 52.61 571 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2013
51 (-2) M Hafeez Pak 456 33.96 595 v SL at Colombo (SSC) 2012
52 (-1) P Jayawardena SL 454 30.89 510 v Eng at Galle 2012
59 (+55) Kaushal Silva SL 419*! 33.80 419 v Pak at Dubai 2014
60 (+5) K Manzoor Pak 416* 30.65 467 v SA at Abu Dhabi 2013
79 (+21) D Karunaratne SL 361*! 30.92 361 v Pak at Dubai 2014
115 (+27) Sarfraz Ahmed Pak 228*! 17.00 228 v SL at Dubai 2014
133 (-30) Ahmed Shehzad Pak 172* 26.25 274 v SL at Abu Dhabi 2013
146 (+30) Bilawal Bhatti Pak 152*! 35.00 152 v SL at Dubai 2014
Bowlers
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
1 ( – ) Vernon Philander SA 909 18.00 912 v Ind at Johannesburg 2013
2 ( – ) Dale Steyn SA 901 22.90 908 v Pak at Johannesburg 2013
3 ( – ) Ryan Harris Aus 866*! 21.56 866 v Eng at Sydney 2014
4 ( – ) Rangana Herath SL 811 29.63 838 v NZ at Colombo (PSS) 2012
5 ( – ) Saeed Ajmal Pak 792 27.25 855 v Zim at Harare 2013
6 ( – ) Peter Siddle Aus 779 28.68 816 v Eng at Old Trafford 2013
7 ( – ) R Ashwin Ind 759 28.50 808 v WI at Mumbai 2013
8 ( – ) Mitchell Johnson Aus 743 28.33 825 v Eng at Cardiff 2009
9 ( – ) Pragyan Ojha Ind 741 30.26 773 v Eng at Kolkata 2012
10= ( – ) Stuart Broad Eng 729 30.31 783 v WI at Lord’s 2012
( – ) Trent Boult NZ 729*! 26.54 729 v WI at Hamilton 2013
12 ( – ) Morne Morkel SA 707 29.91 776 v Aus at Cape Town 2011
13 ( – ) Tim Southee NZ 699! 31.44 699 v WI at Hamilton 2013
14 ( – ) Abdur Rehman Pak 689* 27.55 739 v Eng at Dubai 2012
15 ( – ) James Anderson Eng 683 30.67 813 v Ind at Edgbaston 2011
16 ( – ) Kemar Roach WI 649* 27.71 712 v NZ at Kingston 2012
17 ( – ) Ben Hilfenhaus Aus 627* 28.50 757 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2012
18 ( – ) Nathan Lyon Aus 618 32.52 648 v Eng at Melbourne 2013
19 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 614 32.60 680 v WI at Mirpur 2011
20 ( – ) S Shillingford WI 613* 32.32 652 v NZ at Dunedin 2013
Selected Rankings
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave HS Rating
21 ( – ) Junaid Khan Pak 607*! 28.54 607 v SL at Dubai 2014
45 (+12) Shaminda Eranga SL 352*! 35.60 352 v Pak at Dubai 2014
58 (+3) M Hafeez Pak 301* 34.00 358 v SA at Cape Town 2013
66 (+17) Suranga Lakmal SL 245* 54.48 262 v Aus at Pallekele 2011
77 ( – ) Rahat Ali Pak 209* 45.31 271 v Zim at Harare 2013
94 ( – ) Bilawal Bhatti Pak 127* 48.50 133 v SL at Abu Dhabi 2013
99 (-1) Angelo Mathews SL 104* 72.41 110 v Pak at Colombo (SSC) 2009
103 (+17) Nuwan Pradeep SL 85*! 73.12 85 v Pak at Dubai 2014
All-rounders
Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Rating
1 ( – ) R Ashwin Ind 388*/ 419 v WI at Mumbai 2013
2 ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 362 404 v Pak at Mirpur 2011
3 ( – ) Vernon Philander SA 335*/ ! 335 v Ind at Durban 2013
4 ( – ) Stuart Broad Eng 291 382 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2012
5 ( – ) Shane Watson Aus 260/* 394 v SA at Johannesburg 2011
