Ponting & Australia take charge

Ricky Ponting has surged to one of the highest individual ratings of all-time while Australia continues to dominate in the ICC Test & ODI Championships.

On the back of Ponting’s two hundreds in the recent second Test victory over South Africa he has gone to 937 points, which only seven other players in the history of the game have passed. Sir Donald Bradman tops the list of all-time highest ranked players.

Muttiah Muralitharan continues to top the bowling rankings with Shane Warne over-taking Glenn McGrath and claiming second place.

If Australia manage to clean-sweep the current test series over South Africa, it will give Australia a commanding 18 point lead over England who sit in second place in the Test Championship.

ICC Test Championship

1) Australia – 129 rating
2) England – 113 rating
3) India – 111 rating
4) Pakistan – 108 rating
5) New Zealand – 101 rating
6) South Africa – 99 rating
7) Sri Lanka – 97 rating
8) West Indies – 72 rating
9) Zimbabwe – 27 rating
10) Bangladesh – 4 rating

ICC ODI Championship

1) Australia – 132 rating
2) South Africa – 119 rating
3) Pakistan – 114 rating
4) India – 114 rating
5) New Zealand – 113 rating
6) England – 107 rating
7) Sri Lanka – 105 rating
8) West Indies – 89 rating
9) Zimbabwe – 42 rating
10) Bangladesh – 24 rating
11) Kenya – 7 rating

Test Batsmen – Top Ten

1) Ricky Ponting – 937 points
2) Matthew Hayden – 877 points
3) Jacques Kallis – 877 points
4) Inzamam-ul-Haq – 857 points
5) Rahul Dravid – 842 points
6) Younis Khan – 808 points
7) Brian Lara – 800 points
8) Mohammad Yousuf – 794 points
9) Marcus Trescothick – 745 points
10) Virender Sehwag – 702 points

Test Bowlers – Top Ten

1) Muttiah Muralitharan – 854 points
2) Shane Warne – 838 points
3) Glenn McGrath – 836 points
4) Makhaya Ntini – 792 points
5) Matthew Hoggard – 780 points
6) Andrew Flintoff – 777 points
7) Shoaib Akhtar – 766 points
8) Chaminda Vass – 760 points
9) Shane Bond – 742 points
10) Andre Nel – 732 points

Test Allrounders – Top Five

1) Jacques Kallis – 5112 points
2) Andrew Flintoff – 4949 points
3) Shaun Pollock – 3080 points
4) Iftan Pathan – 2945 points
5) Daniel Vettori – 2778 points

ODI Batsmen – Top Ten

1) Ricky Ponting – 805 points
2) Adam Gilchrist – 793 points
3) Andrew Symonds – 761 points
4) Graeme Smith – 759 points
5) Mahendra Dohni – 754 points
6) Mike Hussey – 748 points
7) Kumar Sangakkara – 736 points
8) Yuvraj Singh – 719 points
9) Michael Clarke – 716 points
10) Rahul Dravid – 709 points

ODI Bowlers – Top Ten

1) Shaun Pollock – 858 points
2) Glenn McGrath – 768 points
3) Shane Bond – 762 points
4) Daniel Vettori – 750 points
5) Irfan Pathan – 737 points
6) Brett Lee – 729 points
7) Muttiah Muralitharan – 701 points
8) Chaminda Vass – 693 points
9) Nathan Bracken – 693 points
10) Makhaya Ntini – 686 points

ODI Allrounders – Top Five

1) Shaun Pollock – 4616 points
2) Andrew Flintoff – 4524 points
3) Andrew Symonds – 3835 points
4) Irfan Pathan – 3692 points
5) Shoaib Malik – 3554 points