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Whyte & MacKay Rankings

By Clive Ellis

Thursday 31 July 1997


JOHN CRAWLEY could be asked to step into the firing line at No 3 for England and he is also proving upwardly mobile in the Whyte & Mackay Rankings. The Lancashire batsman was confirmed yesterday as the top batsman for July and he has also moved up to fifth place in the rankings for the season, with Mark Ramprakash still leading.

Surrey's Martin Bicknell, who has been in the international wilderness since playing in two Tests against Australia four years ago, has pipped Darren Gough for the July bowling award.

Last month's rankings

 Batting
1 M R Ramprakash (Middlesex) 337
2 S P James (Glamorgan) 321
3 G P Thorpe (Surrey) 283
4 H Morris (Glamorgan) 265
5 J P Crawley (Lancashire) 262
6 D L Maddy (Leicestershire) 259
7 N Hussain (Essex) 249
8 R A Smith (Hampshire) 241
9 R C Russell (Gloucestershire) 235
10= M W Alleyne (Gloucestershire) 234
 A J Stewart (Surrey) 234
12 C J Adams (Derbyshire) 232
13 D L Hemp (Warwickshire) 231
14= R C Irani (Essex) 229
 T L Penney (Warwickshire) 229
16 J E Morris (Durham) 228
17= D Byas (Yorkshire) 227
 A D Brown (Surrey) 227
19 C W J Athey (Sussex) 226
20 V J Wells (Leicestershire) 225
21 R J Bailey (Northants) 223
22 N H Fairbrother (Lancashire) 221
23= P J Prichard (Essex) 220
 M A Butcher (Surrey) 220

 Bowling
1 A M Smith (Gloucestershire) 378
2 D Gough (Yorkshire) 376
3 G D Rose (Somerset) 319
4 A R Caddick (Somerset) 315
5 D R Brown (Warwickshire) 306
6 P J Martin (Lancashire) 305
7 M P Bicknell (Surrey) 299
8 M J McCague (Kent) 296
9 R D B Croft (Glamorgan) 290
10 J P Taylor (Northants) 288
11 J P Hewitt (Middlesex) 281
12= S L Watkin (Glamorgan) 274
 A P Cowan (Essex) 274
14 D E Malcolm (Derbyshire) 273
15 A R C Fraser (Middlesex) 269
16 M W Alleyne (Gloucestershire) 267
17 P M Such (Essex) 265
18 P A J DeFreitas (Derbyshire) 264
19 M A Robinson (Sussex) 260
20= I D Austin (Lancashire) 252
 C C Lewis (Surrey) 252
 A D Mullally (Leicestershire) 252
23 M V Fleming (Kent) 245
24 K P Evans (Notts) 244

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