Mike Atherton is England's only player in the top ten of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Ratings after England's crushing defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka at Galle. Marcus Trescothick has climbed 22 places to 39th, but for the rest of the England players it is a question of how far they have dropped. Atherton is down two places in the Ratings to ninth. Nasser Hussain has dropped out of the top 30, while Giles and White are out of the top 40. Graeme Hick, 55th in the batting, is at his lowest Rating since 1993.

Mahela Jayawardene, the highest rated of the Sri Lankan batsmen, has moved up to tenth in the batting. Muttiah Muralitharan remains fourth in the bowling.

SIR DONALD BRADMAN

Don Bradman, whose death was announced today, achieved the best Rating of any player in the history of Test cricket. His peak of 959 points came in 1934, but an indicator of his greatness is that his Rating was above 900 points for more than half of his career. It is rare for any player to reach 900 points in the Ratings, and even those who make it (Waugh, Lara, Pollock) rarely stay there for long. Except for one Test in 1932, Bradman would have been Number One in the Ratings continuously from 1931 until his retirement in 1948.

Latest PricewaterhouseCoopers Test Ratings:

26th February 2001

PricewaterhouseCoopers Test Ratings Batsmen

After Sri Lanka v England, Galle

Changes since before Galle Test Match

Rank	(Change)	Player	Team	Points		Average	Highest Rating

   1 	( - )	S.R.Tendulkar	Ind	 875	 	 57.28	880 v SA at Mumbai 2000
   2 	( - )	Steve Waugh	Aus	 862	 	 51.00	909 v WI at Melbourne 1996
   3 	( - )	Andy Flower	Zim	 831	 	 51.05	831 v NZ at Wellington 2000
   4 	( - )	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pak	 801	 	 46.22	865 v Eng at Lord's 1996
   5 	( - )	Ricky Ponting	Aus	 771	 	 46.69	829 v Ind at Sydney 2000
   6 	( - )	Saeed Anwar	Pak	 767	 	 46.30	835 v Ind at Calcutta 1999
   7 	( - )	Rahul Dravid	Ind	 749	 	 53.58	862 v NZ at Hamilton 1999
   8 	(+1)	Brian Lara	WI	 748	 	 48.29	917 v Aus at St John's 1999
   9 	(-2)	M.A.Atherton	Eng	 743	 	 39.13	771 v SA at Johannesburg 1995
  10 	(+1)	M.Jayawardene	Sri	 724	 	 42.30	748 v SA at Durban 2000
  11 	(-1)	Adam Gilchrist	Aus	 720	*	 54.37	720 v WI at Sydney 2001
  12 	( - )	Daryll Cullinan	SA	 710	 	 43.56	752 v Sri at Galle 2000
  13 	( - )	Michael Slater	Aus	 707	 	 44.42	768 v Sri at Melbourne 1995
  14 	( - )	Jacques Kallis	SA	 703	 	 42.61	764 v Sri at Kandy 2000
  15 	( - )	Yousuf Youhana	Pak	 699	 	 40.30	699 v Eng at Karachi 2000
  16 	( - )	Gary Kirsten	SA	 698	 	 41.79	766 v Ind at Calcutta 1996
  17 	( - )	Justin Langer	Aus	 694	 	 39.60	767 v NZ at Hamilton 2000
  18=	( - )	Mark Waugh	Aus	 679	 	 42.01	803 v SA at Port Elizabeth 1997
     	(+6)	P.A.de Silva	Sri	 679	 	 42.47	796 v Aus at Colombo (SSC) 1999
  20 	(-1)	Chris Cairns	NZ	 677	 	 32.55	705 v Zim at Harare 2000
  21 	(-1)	Craig McMillan	NZ	 672	 	 41.88	713 v Zim at Bulawayo 2000
  22 	(-1)	Alec Stewart	Eng	 669	 	 39.88	791 v Zim at Lord's 2000
  23 	(-1)	S.Chanderpaul	WI	 658	 	 40.63	746 v Ind at Georgetown 1997
  24 	(-1)	Lance Klusener	SA	 653	 	 39.04	661 v Sri at Colombo (SSC) 2000
  25 	(+8)	Marvan Atapattu	Sri	 642	 	 35.83	667 v SA at Kandy 2000
  26 	(-1)	Sourav Ganguly	Ind	 629	 	 46.74	706 v Pak at Delhi 1999
  27 	(-1)	Nathan Astle	NZ	 616	 	 36.70	648 v Aus at Wellington 2000
  28 	(+1)	Stephen Fleming	NZ	 595	 	 36.40	676 v Eng at Auckland 1997
  29 	(-1)	Graham Thorpe	Eng	 574	 	 38.81	803 v WI at Kingston 1998
  30 	( - )	S.T.Jayasuriya	Sri	 572	 	 40.07	750 v Ind at Colombo (SSC) 1997
  31 	(-4)	Nasser Hussain	Eng	 571	 	 34.74	784 v SA at Durban 1999
  32 	(-1)	Wavell Hinds	WI	 562	*	 33.45	589 v Pak at St John's 2000
  33 	(-1)	Ijaz Ahmed	Pak	 559	 	 38.61	695 v Eng at The Oval 1996
  34 	( - )	Jimmy Adams	WI	 553	 	 41.26	830 v Aus at Port-of-Spain 1995
  35=	( - )	Mark Boucher	SA	 546	 	 31.26	550 v Sri at Cape Town 2001
     	( - )	M.H.Richardson	NZ	 546	*	 47.22	546 v Zim at Wellington 2000
  37 	( - )	Jonty Rhodes	SA	 542	 	 35.66	601 v Zim at Bloemfontein 1999
  38 	( - )	S.Ramesh	Ind	 540	*	 43.77	645 v NZ at Ahmedabad 1999
  39 	(+22)	M.E.Trescothick	Eng	 533	*	 43.16	533 v Sri at Galle 2001
  40 	(-1)	S.L.Campbell	WI	 532	 	 32.82	686 v Aus at Sydney 1996
  41 	(-1)	Mathew Sinclair	NZ	 527	*	 40.50	567 v SA at Port Elizabeth 2000
  42 	(-1)	Russel Arnold	Sri	 526	 	 30.51	526 v Eng at Galle 2001
  43 	(-1)	Ridley Jacobs	WI	 522	 	 24.72	528 v Aus at Bridgetown 1999
  44 	(-1)	Michael Vaughan	Eng	 508	*	 28.69	574 v WI at Leeds 2000
  45 	(-1)	Greg Blewett	Aus	 500	 	 34.02	710 v NZ at Hobart 1997
  46 	(+3)	K.Sangakkara	Sri	 495	*	 31.33	495 v Eng at Galle 2001
  47 	(-2)	Guy Whittall	Zim	 481	 	 29.70	527 v NZ at Harare 2000
  48 	(-2)	Aamir Sohail	Pak	 474	 	 35.28	696 v WI at Karachi 1997
  49 	(-2)	Moin Khan	Pak	 473	 	 28.11	595 v WI at Peshawar 1997
  50 	(-2)	Damien Martyn	Aus	 468	*	 42.53	478 v WI at Adelaide 2000
  51 	( - )	Mark Ramprakash	Eng	 456	 	 26.41	633 v Aus at Melbourne 1998
  52 	( - )	Venkata Laxman	Ind	 453	*	 27.80	476 v Aus at Sydney 2000
  53 	( - )	Wasim Akram	Pak	 452	 	 22.52	480 v Sri at Kandy 2000
  54 	( - )	Shaun Pollock	SA	 448	 	 28.55	552 v WI at Port Elizabeth 1998
  55 	(-5)	Graeme Hick	Eng	 442	 	 31.76	724 v SA at Centurion 1995
  56 	(-1)	H.H.Gibbs	SA	 441	*	 30.52	523 v Ind at Mumbai 2000
  57 	( - )	Matthew Horne	NZ	 435	 	 30.92	583 v Eng at Manchester 1999
  58 	(-2)	Mark Butcher	Eng	 433	 	 25.06	616 v Aus at Brisbane 1998
  59 	(-1)	Aminul Islam	Ban	 431	*	 75.50	431 v Ind at Dhaka 2000
  60 	(-1)	Shahid Afridi	Pak	 425	*	 31.26	473 v Ind at Delhi 1999
  61 	(-1)	Mohammad Wasim	Pak	 416	*	 30.11	465 v Zim at Harare 1998
  62 	( - )	Adam Parore	NZ	 409	 	 25.35	533 v Sri at Galle 1998
  63 	( - )	A.D.R.Campbell	Zim	 405	 	 25.98	534 v Sri at Harare 1994
  64 	( - )	Younis Khan	Pak	 400	*	 31.00	412 v Sri at Kandy 2000
  65 	( - )	N.D.McKenzie	SA	 399	*	 35.08	399 v Sri at Centurion 2001
  66=	( - )	Grant Flower	Zim	 395	 	 30.42	611 v Pak at Bulawayo 1998
     	( - )	M.Samuels	WI	 395	*	 34.40	452 v Aus at Melbourne 2000
  68 	( - )	Azhar Mahmood	Pak	 386	*	 31.19	670 v SA at Port Elizabeth 1998
  69 	( - )	Nicky Boje	SA	 373	*	 32.00	399 v Ind at Bangalore 2000
  70 	( - )	R.Kaluwitharana	Sri	 367	 	 27.15	522 v Pak at Lahore 1999
  71 	( - )	Adrian Griffith	WI	 365	*	 24.53	463 v NZ at Wellington 1999
  72 	( - )	Craig Spearman	NZ	 363	*	 26.34	413 v Aus at Hamilton 2000
  73 	( - )	Habibul Bashar	Ban	 362	*	 50.50	362 v Ind at Dhaka 2000
  74 	( - )	Gavin Rennie	Zim	 347	*	 23.48	402 v Ind at Harare 1998
  75 	(+1)	R.R.Sarwan	WI	 335	*	 27.33	416 v Eng at The Oval 2000
  76=	(+1)	Matthew Hayden	Aus	 326	*	 24.36	357 v WI at Melbourne 2000
     	(+1)	H.J.H.Marshall	NZ	 326	*	  -  	329 v SA at Johannesburg 2000
  78 	(-3)	Craig White	Eng	 322	*	 19.72	345 v Pak at Karachi 2000
  79 	( - )	Paul Strang	Zim	 314	 	 25.83	411 v NZ at Harare 1997
  80 	( - )	Dion Nash	NZ	 311	 	 22.70	324 v Zim at Harare 2000
  81 	( - )	Tuwan Dilshan	Sri	 305	*	 32.10	403 v Zim at Harare 1999
  82 	( - )	Stuart Carlisle	Zim	 300	*	 23.40	305 v Ind at Nagpur 2000
  83 	(+1)	Anil Kumble	Ind	 297	 	 18.06	307 v Sri at Nagpur 1997
  84 	(+1)	Abdur Razzaq	Pak	 296	*	 22.41	313 v Eng at Faisalabad 2000
  85 	(-2)	Nick Knight	Eng	 295	*	 25.14	438 v Zim at Bulawayo 1996
  86 	( - )	M.V.Nagamootoo	WI	 293	*	 27.75	293 v Aus at Sydney 2001
  87 	(+1)	Daniel Vettori	NZ	 285	 	 18.00	309 v Eng at The Oval 1999
  88 	(+1)	Brett Lee	Aus	 284	*	 37.50	293 v WI at Perth 2000
  89 	(-2)	Chaminda Vaas	Sri	 281	 	 17.85	299 v SA at Galle 2000
  90=	( - )	Heath Streak	Zim	 279	 	 16.77	284 v Pak at Lahore 1998
     	( - )	Salim Elahi	Pak	 279	*	 23.25	279 v Eng at Karachi 2000
  92 	( - )	Shane Warne	Aus	 272	 	 15.36	311 v Ind at Adelaide 1999
  93 	(-1)	Dominic Cork	Eng	 269	 	 18.10	346 v WI at Manchester 1995
  94 	( - )	Boeta Dippenaar	SA	 262	*	 26.80	265 v Sri at Durban 2000
  95 	( - )	K.Dharmasena	Sri	 260	*	 20.60	372 v WI at St John's 1997
  96 	( - )	Imran Nazir	Pak	 256	*	 30.50	367 v WI at Bridgetown 2000
  97 	(-1)	Andrew Flintoff	Eng	 254	*	 16.64	297 v SA at Cape Town 2000
  98 	( - )	S.S.Das	Ind	 251	*	 55.75	251 v Zim at Nagpur 2000
  99=	( - )	Simon Doull	NZ	 238	 	 14.61	255 v Aus at Wellington 2000
     	( - )	Sunil Joshi	Ind	 238	*	 20.70	238 v Zim at Nagpur 2000

PricewaterhouseCoopers Test Ratings Bowlers

26/02/2001 After Sri Lanka v England, Galle

Changes since before Galle Test Match

Rank	(Change)	Player	Team	Points		Average	Highest Rating

   1 	( - )	Shaun Pollock	SA	 907	 	 20.04	912 v Eng at Johannesburg 1999
   2 	( - )	Glenn McGrath	Aus	 901	 	 22.06	912 v WI at Brisbane 2000
   3 	( - )	Allan Donald	SA	 840	 	 21.47	897 v Eng at Johannesburg 1999
   4 	( - )	M.Muralitharan	Sri	 826	 	 25.31	849 v SA at Durban 2000
   5 	( - )	Courtney Walsh	WI	 758	 	 24.68	844 v Eng at Leeds 2000
   6 	( - )	Brett Lee	Aus	 732	*	 16.07	754 v WI at Perth 2000
   7 	(+1)	Anil Kumble	Ind	 701	 	 28.01	859 v Sri at Bangalore 1994
   8 	(+1)	Wasim Akram	Pak	 698	 	 23.17	828 v Aus at Karachi 1994
   9 	(+1)	Jason Gillespie	Aus	 692	*	 21.08	714 v WI at Melbourne 2000
  10 	(+1)	Waqar Younis	Pak	 690	 	 22.50	912 v Zim at Rawalpindi 1993
  11 	(+1)	Javagal Srinath	Ind	 689	 	 29.84	740 v NZ at Mohali 1999
  12 	(-5)	Darren Gough	Eng	 684	 	 28.10	710 v WI at Leeds 2000
  13 	( - )	Chris Cairns	NZ	 683	 	 29.21	733 v WI at Wellington 1999
  14 	( - )	Colin Miller	Aus	 676	*	 25.46	676 v WI at Sydney 2001
  15 	( - )	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pak	 675	 	 29.55	724 v Aus at Hobart 1999
  16 	( - )	Damien Fleming	Aus	 664	*	 24.90	750 v Ind at Adelaide 1999
  17 	(+1)	Heath Streak	Zim	 626	 	 25.00	752 v Sri at Colombo (RPS) 1996
  18 	(+1)	Dion Nash	NZ	 622	*	 27.48	695 v WI at Wellington 1999
  19 	(-2)	Andrew Caddick	Eng	 621	 	 29.06	719 v WI at The Oval 2000
  20 	( - )	Shane Warne	Aus	 620	 	 25.96	907 v Eng at Melbourne 1994
  21 	( - )	Stuart MacGill	Aus	 609	*	 25.02	760 v WI at Port-of-Spain 1999
  22 	(+1)	Makhaya Ntini	SA	 582	*	 25.67	582 v Sri at Centurion 2001
  23 	(-1)	Dominic Cork	Eng	 577	 	 28.50	680 v SA at Johannesburg 1995
  24 	( - )	Arshad Khan	Pak	 569	*	 28.40	575 v Eng at Faisalabad 2000
  25 	( - )	Nicky Boje	SA	 559	*	 24.72	571 v Sri at Cape Town 2001
  26 	( - )	Daniel Vettori	NZ	 554	 	 32.62	610 v Aus at Wellington 2000
  27 	( - )	Simon Doull	NZ	 543	*	 29.30	795 v Ind at Hamilton 1999
  28 	( - )	Jacques Kallis	SA	 515	*	 29.52	596 v Zim at Harare 1999
  29 	( - )	Shayne O'Connor	NZ	 505	*	 31.26	513 v SA at Port Elizabeth 2000
  30 	(+1)	Chaminda Vaas	Sri	 490	 	 31.79	739 v Pak at Sialkot 1995
  31 	(-1)	Reon King	WI	 456	*	 27.91	589 v Eng at Birmingham 2000
  32 	( - )	Paul Strang	Zim	 452	*	 35.28	465 v NZ at Harare 2000
  33 	( - )	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pak	 451	 	 31.96	819 v NZ at Rawalpindi 1996
  34 	(+3)	B.K.V.Prasad	Ind	 429	*	 34.70	602 v SA at Durban 1996
  35 	(+1)	Alan Mullally	Eng	 428	*	 30.58	478 v SA at Centurion 2000
  36 	(+2)	Paul Adams	SA	 426	*	 31.55	553 v Eng at Cape Town 2000
  37 	(+2)	C.S.Martin	NZ	 421	*	 22.68	421 v Zim at Wellington 2000
  38 	(+2)	Pommie Mbangwa	Zim	 408	*	 31.43	605 v Pak at Peshawar 1998
  39 	(+2)	Sunil Joshi	Ind	 392	*	 35.85	468 v Ban at Dhaka 2000
  40=	(+2)	Shoaib Akhtar	Pak	 381	*	 35.84	447 v Aus at Brisbane 1999
     	(+2)	Nantie Hayward	SA	 381	*	 26.68	405 v Sri at Colombo (SSC) 2000
  42 	(+2)	Mervyn Dillon	WI	 380	*	 33.00	384 v Aus at Melbourne 2000
  43 	(+18)	S.T.Jayasuriya	Sri	 375	*	 36.66	375 v Eng at Galle 2001
  44 	(-10)	Ashley Giles	Eng	 373	*	 34.21	448 v Pak at Karachi 2000
  45 	(-10)	Craig White	Eng	 367	*	 31.57	463 v Pak at Lahore 2000
  46 	(-1)	M.Ngam	SA	 362	*	 17.18	366 v Sri at Cape Town 2001
  47 	(-1)	Henry Olonga	Zim	 356	*	 36.42	486 v Pak at Lahore 1998
  48 	(-1)	P.Wick'singhe	Sri	 347	*	 41.87	387 v Pak at Peshawar 2000
  49 	(-1)	Phil Tufnell	Eng	 337	 	 36.55	682 v NZ at Christchurch 1992
  50=	(-1)	Lance Klusener	SA	 326	*	 36.90	458 v Pak at Johannesburg 1998
     	(-1)	Ajit Agarkar	Ind	 326	*	 37.61	339 v Aus at Melbourne 1999
  52 	(-1)	Franklyn Rose	WI	 325	*	 30.88	541 v SA at Durban 1998
  53 	(-1)	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri	 312	*	 32.67	369 v Pak at Colombo (SSC) 2000
  54 	( - )	Guy Whittall	Zim	 299	*	 37.02	349 v Eng at Nottingham 2000
  55=	(-2)	K.Dharmasena	Sri	 297	*	 38.87	380 v NZ at Colombo (SSC) 1998
     	(+1)	Paul Wiseman	NZ	 297	*	 40.84	380 v Zim at Bulawayo 2000
  57 	(-3)	R.Pushpakumara	Sri	 296	*	 38.24	431 v Ind at Nagpur 1997
  58 	(-1)	Azhar Mahmood	Pak	 286	*	 37.62	314 v Zim at Harare 1998
  59 	(-1)	Nixon McLean	WI	 268	*	 43.07	268 v Aus at Sydney 2001
  60 	(-1)	Bryan Strang	Zim	 266	*	 39.80	455 v NZ at Harare 1997
  61 	(-1)	Shahid Afridi	Pak	 258	*	 29.20	277 v Eng at Faisalabad 2000
  62 	( - )	Upul Chandana	Sri	 239	*	 30.56	264 v SA at Kandy 2000
  63 	( - )	Nathan Astle	NZ	 231	*	 46.86	251 v SA at Port Elizabeth 2000
  64 	( - )	Abdur Razzaq	Pak	 230	*	 41.14	232 v Eng at Faisalabad 2000
  65 	( - )	Ed Giddins	Eng	 215	*	 20.00	383 v Zim at Lord's 2000
  66 	(+1)	S.R.Tendulkar	Ind	 200	*	 36.15	234 v SA at Mumbai 2000
  67 	(-1)	Robert Croft	Eng	 196	*	 41.32	504 v Aus at Lord's 1997
  68 	( - )	Steve Waugh	Aus	 184	*	 35.74	433 v Sri at Perth 1988
  69 	( - )	J.M.Kemp	SA	 171	*	 10.40	171 v Sri at Centurion 2001
  70 	( - )	Aamir Sohail	Pak	 166	*	 41.96	183 v Sri at Peshawar 2000

Qualifying match: Australia vs India, at Sydney, on 02/01/2000

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