LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul made a slight gain to No.2 this week in the One-Day International (ODI) cricket ratings, trading places with his captain Chris Gayle.
In the latest Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings released yesterday, Mahendra Singh Dhoni retained the No.1 spot after the West Indies stars Gayle and Chanderpaul had tame outings in the NatWest series against England — that ended Tuesday – and failed to unseat the India captain.
Gayle went into the NatWest series trailing Dhoni by just 33 ratings points but after managing just 42 runs in the series, the Jamaican has dropped one place to third.
Chanderpaul, who is ranked fourth in the Test cricket batting ratings, climbed from third to second on the ODI list after scores of 27 and 68 in the Caribbean side’s 0-2 series loss to the English.
The only other West Indies player among the Top-20 batsmen is Ramnaresh Sarwan, who slipped three places to No.19.
Gayle is ninth-ranked on the all-rounders’ list that is headed by Shakib Al Hasan, of Bangladesh, over England’s Andrew Flintoff and India’s Yuvraj Singh.
Jerome Taylor, at 14th, and Daren Powell (No.20) are the only West Indians among the Top-20 bowlers, headed by Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Kulasekara.
South Africa remain No.1 in the team rankings, followed by Australia and India with New Zealand fourth and Pakistan fifth. England are sixth, Sri Lanka seventh and West Indies eighth.
England’s series victory has earned them one rating point and they are now on 109 rating points, just two behind fifth-placed Pakistan.
Defeat cost West Indies two ratings points and dropped them to 90 rating points, 15 behind seventh-placed Sri Lanka.
