LONDON: Michael Vaughan reign as the world’s top-ranked batsman has been cut short after his failure in England’s first test against Zimbabwe.
Australia’s Matthew Hayden quickly regained his place at the top after Vaughan, looking out of sorts, managed just eight runs in England’s innings and 92-run win at Lord’s on Saturday.
Vaughan, the top run-scorer in world cricket last season, had replaced Hayden in the PricewaterhouseCoopers test ratings in April. Hayden averaged 63.16 in Australia’s 3-1 test series win over West Indies earlier this month.
Marcus Trescothick is the next Englishman in the batting list in 18th place while man-of-the-match Mark Butcher, who made 137 and took five wickets against Zimbabwe, is 21st.
Shaun Pollock, due to arrive in England in June for South Africa’s five-test tour, tops the bowling ahead of Australian Glenn McGrath and Sri Lanka’s off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan.
I agree to the Wasim Bhai comment but I didnt get the Shaun Pullocak one. Look at his average… dont you think he deserves to be there??? I mean in all fairness he is a good bowler. I’d say very good bowler, he really keeps a very tight line and length and rarley gives a batmsne something to work with.
I agree to the Wasim Bhai comment but I didnt get the Shaun Pullocak one. Look at his average... dont you think he deserves to be there??? I mean in all fairness he is a good bowler. I'd say very good bowler, he really keeps a very tight line and length and rarley gives a batmsne something to work with.
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Shaun's average is awesome but for some reason I think Murli deserves to be at the top followed by Shane Warne even though he's banned.
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These ratings are non sense, I remember Salim Elahi got into top 5 when he scored a century against South Africa.
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I personally dont agree with a lot of these ratings but I dont know what ratings you have been following cause Saleem Elahi was never even in top 30 batsmen in the PwC ratings.
I personally dont agree with a lot of these ratings but I dont know what ratings you have been following cause Saleem Elahi was never even in top 30 batsmen in the PwC ratings.
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Yeah he was, go check the PWC archives from December 2002, when scored 130 odd against South Africa and had a successfull tour of Zimbabwe, he was #1 ahead of Tendulkar and co.
Yeah he was, go check the PWC archives from December 2002, when scored 130 odd against South Africa and had a successfull tour of Zimbabwe, he was #1 ahead of Tendulkar and co.
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** Saleem Elahi's Career Rating (ODI) **
Date Rating Vs Ground
29/09/95 247 Sri Lanka Gujranwala
01/10/95 297 Sri Lanka Faisalabad
03/10/95 341 Sri Lanka Rawalpindi
12/10/95 388 Sri Lanka Sharjah
13/10/95 390 West Indies Sharjah
15/10/95 444 West Indies Sharjah
17/10/95 426 Sri Lanka Sharjah
23/12/95 402 New Zealand Auckland
18/09/96 364 India Toronto
21/09/96 364 India Toronto
29/09/96 394 South Africa Nairobi
02/10/96 392 Kenya Nairobi
04/10/96 390 Sri Lanka Nairobi
06/10/96 406 South Africa Nairobi
28/09/97 319 India Hyderabad
30/09/97 315 India Karachi
29/10/98 304 West Indies Dhaka
06/11/98 288 Australia Karachi
27/08/00 227 South Africa Singapore
24/10/00 252 England Karachi
27/10/00 330 England Lahore
30/10/00 346 England Rawalpindi
22/02/01 356 New Zealand Wellington
25/02/01 350 New Zealand Christchurch
28/02/01 352 New Zealand Dunedin
12/06/01 343 England Lord's
19/06/01 414 Australia Nottingham
23/06/01 410 Australia Lord's
23/11/02 373 Zimbabwe Bulawayo
24/11/02 433 Zimbabwe Bulawayo
27/11/02 469 Zimbabwe Harare
08/12/02 475 South Africa Durban
11/12/02 551 South Africa Port Elizabeth
13/12/02 543 South Africa East London
16/12/02 549 South Africa Paarl
18/12/02 540 South Africa Cape Town
11/02/03 550 Australia Johannesburg
*16/02/03 562 Namibia Kimberley *
25/02/03 554 Holland Paarl
04/03/03 546 Zimbabwe Bulawayo
His currentley ranked at 49th position with a rating of 522 points. His highest ever rating was 562 points VS Namibia in 2003. Even at that time his rank was 39. So he was never in the top 5.
So are you saying he recieved more pts for scoring 62 runs against Namibia then scoring back to back centuries against South Africa and Zimbabwe.
You maybe right about this ranking but I remember back when I was in Pakistan in december, they showed him as #1 batsman.
I never claimed in knew how the rating system worked so I have no idea why he didnt have more points after back to back centuries. I do know he was never in top 30 in PwC ratings. You might be right that some other rating might have put him at # 1 spot but I doubt it. Personally I dont think he deserves that spot anyway. People like Inzimam, Youhana, Sachin, Ponting, Lara would be justified at that spot not Elahi.
I agree and I apologize, it wasn’t PWC but it was some cheap Indian rating which claimed Elahi as number 1 one day batsman in the world, here is the link.
