Tendulkar moves up, Gambhir down in ICC rankings

By Rahul Bajaj
for Cricketain.com

Published: November 23, 2009

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Dubai: India’s little master, Sachin Tendulkar, has moved up one spot in the latest ICC batsmen rankings to become a joint 15^th after he scored a match saving hundred against Sri Lanka in the first test match at Ahmedabad while opener Gautam Gambhir slipped down one spot to number 3.

Tendulkar shares the 15^th spot with England’s enigmatic middle-order batsman, Kevin Pietersen. Another Indian who made an upward move was “The Wall” Rahul Dravid who jumped five places to move to the 21^st spot while Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni moved up three places to be at the 30^th position.

Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene, who scored a double hundred in the lame draw at Ahmedabad, achieved the number one ranking for the first time in his career. The 32-year-old scored a majestic 275 — his sixth double-century in 108 Tests.

Jayawardene, who during his mammoth vigil at the crease became only the ninth batsman to complete 9,000 Test runs, is just 17 points away from becoming only the 25th batsman overall to reach the 900-point mark which, in ranking terms, is the benchmark for top batsmen.

Among the Test bowlers, Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who took 2-189 in the first Test, has slipped one place to sixth in the latest rankings. The gap between number-one ranked Dale Steyn of South Africa and Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan’s has widened from 20 points to 31 points.

The ICC Test Championship table is currently led by Australia with India at third spot.

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Tendulkar moves up, Gambhir down in ICC rankings

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