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Following the conclusion of the ICC World Twenty 20 in Sri Lanka, the ICC have published the latest edition of the Reliance T20 team and player rankings. Ireland remain in 10th spot despite a disappointing World Twenty20 where they only saw one match completed.
Following the conclusion of the ICC World Twenty 20 in Sri Lanka, the ICC have published the latest edition of the Reliance T20 team and player rankings. Ireland remain in 10th spot despite a disappointing World Twenty20 where they only saw one match completed.
Trent Johnston remains in the world’s top 20 bowlers and is the only Irish or Associate representative in all three categories of the rankings.

West Indies’ success in the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 has been reflected in the Reliance ICC T20I Player Rankings which were released today (Monday) with the man of the match in the final, Marlon Samuels and impressive young spinner Sunil Narine, both recording rises of 20 places in the batting and bowling rankings respectively.

Samuels, who hammered 78 and took one for 15 in the 36-runs victory over the host Sri Lanka, leapt 20 places to 18th in the batting rankings and was up seven places to equal ninth in the all-rounders’ table. Both represented career-best ratings as did his improving bowling ranking of 60th – up 19 places.

Sunil Narine’s three for nine in the final capped an impressive tournament and his 20 place move took him to equal 13th in the bowling rankings with a career best rating of 638 while his colleague Samuel Badree, who claimed the key wicket in the final of Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara with his leg-breaks, moved a staggering 46 places to 47th in the rankings table.

Chris Gayle, who dominated the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 semi-final against Australia, moved into second place in the batting rankings behind New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum. Gayle leapfrogged player of the tournament Shane Watson, of Australia, who drops to third in the batting rankings but maintains his position as number-one all-rounder and is still sixth in the bowling rankings.

For Sri Lanka the only consolation was Ajantha Mendis who overtook England’s Graeme Swann to stand second in the bowling rankings, while Angelo Mathews rose six places to joint 18th. Mathews also moved up one place in the all-rounders table to join Samuels in ninth place.

Meanwhile, West Indies has moved up five places to second in in the Reliance ICC T20I Championship table after beating number-one ranked Sri Lanka in the final of the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012. Sri Lanka has retained the number-one spot despite the loss in the final.
Pakistan has moved down three places to sixth in the table after losing in the semi-final to Sri Lanka.

Reliance ICC T20I Championship (as on 8 October, after ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012)

Rank (+/-) Team Rating

1 (-) Sri Lanka 127

2 (+5) West Indies 121

3 (-1) India 120

4 (-) England 118

5 (-) South Africa 117

6 (-3) Pakistan 116

7 (-1) Australia 108

8 (-) New Zealand 97

9 (-) Bangladesh 85

10 (-) Ireland 82

11 (-) Zimbabwe 44

Not ranked as fewer than eight T20I matches played since August 2010

Afghanistan 76

Netherlands 73

Scotland 67

Canada 11

Kenya 2

(Developed by David Kendix)

Reliance ICC T20 Rankings (as on 8 October, after the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012)

Batsmen

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave S/R HS Ranking

1 ( – ) B McCullum NZ 830 36.77 135 849 v Ban at Pallekele 2012

2 (+1) Chris Gayle WI 810 37.65 145 831 v Aus at Colombo (RPS) 2012

3 (-1) Shane Watson Aus 799 30.62 148 832 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2012

4 ( – ) M JayawardenA SL 775 32.21 134 785 v Aus at Pallekele 2011

5 ( – ) Suresh Raina Ind 741 33.39 136 776 v Eng at Kolkata 2011

6 ( – ) David Warner Aus 714 27.04 139 826 v WI at St Lucia 2010

7 ( – ) Eoin Morgan Eng 712 36.09 132 872 v Ind at Old Trafford 2011

8 (-1) T Dilshan SL 699 28.84 124 802 v NZ at Colombo (RPS) 2009

9 ( – ) K Sangakkara SL 687 30.00 121 763 v WI at Barbados 2010

10= ( – ) Virat Kohli Ind 686* 38.58 129 714 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2012

( – ) Martin Guptill NZ 686 30.79 122 793 v SA at Hamilton 2012

12 ( – ) JP Duminy SA 668 32.82 122 694 v Eng at Durham 2012

13 ( – ) H Masakadza Zim 629* 26.59 117 652 v SL at Hambantota 2012

14 ( – ) Jacques Kallis SA 624 35.05 119 738 v Eng at Durham 2012

15 ( – ) Umar Akmal Pak 610 27.96 118 709 v Zim at Harare 2011

16 (-1) Gautam Gambhir Ind 600 27.83 121 723 v SL at Mohali 2009

17 ( – ) Yuvraj Singh Ind 593 30.31 145 793 v SA at St Lucia 2010

18 (+20) Marlon Samuels WI 584*! 27.72 130 584 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2012

19 (-1) Graeme Smith SA 570 31.67 128 778 v Zim at Kimberley 2010

20 (-1) Mike Hussey Aus 557 37.94 136 558 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2012

Bowlers

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts Ave Econ HS Ranking

1 ( – ) Saeed Ajmal Pak 770 15.82 6.13 788 v NZ at Pallekele 2012

2 (+1) Ajantha Mendis SL 762! 10.76 5.74 762 v WI at Colombo (RPS) 2012

3 (-1) Graeme Swann Eng 750 16.84 6.36 760 v Pak at Cardiff 2010

4 ( – ) N McCullum NZ 690 17.52 6.47 709 v Zim at Harare 2011

5 ( – ) Johan Botha SA 674 22.24 6.37 733 v NZ at Auckland 2012

6 ( – ) Shane Watson Aus 665 20.42 7.19 671 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2012

7 ( – ) Shahid Afridi Pak 656 21.16 6.22 814 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2009

8 ( – ) M Hafeez Pak 655 22.71 6.71 662 v Eng at Dubai 2012

9 (+1) Abdur Razzak Ban 654 17.02 6.69 661 v Ire at Belfast 2012

10 (+1) Dale Steyn SA 652 17.18 6.36 688 v WI at Antigua 2010

11 (-2) N Kulasekara SL 648 27.13 7.44 658 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2012

12 ( – ) Lasith Malinga SL 640 21.35 7.48 680 v Eng at Bristol 2011

13= ( – ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 638 22.70 6.88 658 v Ire at Belfast 2012

(+20) Sunil Narine WI 638*! 16.68 5.97 638 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2012

15 (-1) Daniel Vettori NZ 632 19.45 5.61 850 v Aus at Wellington 2010

16 (-1) Morne Morkel SA 631 17.84 6.72 646 v Aus at Cape Town 2011

17 (-1) Stuart Broad Eng 625 23.18 7.34 672 v Pak at Cardiff 2010

18= (-1) Tim Southee NZ 623 25.47 8.41 628 v Pak at Pallekele 2012

(+6) Angelo Mathews SL 623! 24.04 6.63 623 v WI at Colombo (RPS) 2012

20 (-2) Trent Johnston Ire 610 19.86 6.26 633 v Ban at Belfast 2012

All-rounders

Rank (+/-) Player Team Pts HS Ranking

1 ( – ) Shane Watson Aus 531 557 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2012

2 ( – ) M Hafeez Pak 350 353 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2012

3 ( – ) Shahid Afridi Pak 294 413 v NZ at Dubai 2009

4 ( – ) S Al Hasan Ban 270*/! 270 v Pak at Pallekele 2012

5 ( – ) Chris Gayle WI 266/* 290 v Ind at Barbados 2010

6 ( – ) David Hussey Aus 241/* 350 v Ind at Melbourne 2012

7 (+2) Dwayne Bravo WI 238! 238 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2012

8 (-1) Jacques Kallis SA 234/* 249 v Zim at Hambantota 2012

9= (+7) Marlon Samuels WI 229*/*! 229 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2012

(+1) Angelo Mathews SL 229*/ ! 229 v WI at Colombo (RPS) 2012


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