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Tendulkar reclaims top spot
Wisden CricInfo staff - February 25, 2002

Batting top 20
Bowling top 20
PwC ODI ratings
Full PricewaterhouseCoopers ratings

India's Sachin Tendulkar reclaimed top spot in the latest Pricewaterhouse Coopers world cricket batting ratings which were announced on Monday.

Tendulkar leads Brian Lara by 10 points in the table, which ranks players not just purely on averages alone but also takes into account the quality of the opposition they have faced.

Australia's wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist has climbed into third spot, his elevation owing much to the fastest Test double century he scored in the first Test victory over South Africa on Sunday. Gilchrist made 204 not out of a total of 652 for 7 declared and is one of five Australian batsmen in the top ten.

In the bowling standings, South Africa paceman Allan Donald, who announced his Test retirement on Monday, finished his career in sixth place. Donald, who took 330 Test wickets at an average of 22.25 in 72 Tests, topped the standings in 1999.

Batting

Name

Rating

Average

1

SachinTendulkar

Ind

897

58.87

2

Brian Lara

WI

887

50.49

3

Adam Gilchrist

Aus

877

57.30

4

Matthew Hayden

Aus

876

49.27

5

Damien Martyn

Aus

814

57.25

6

M.Jayawardene

Sri

812

48.72

7

Steve Waugh

Aus

795

50.72

8

Justin Langer

Aus

774

44.63

9

Andy Flower

Zim

773

52.44

10

Yousuf Youhana

Pak

759

49.66

11

Jacques Kallis

SA

755

46.88

12=

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Pak

740

46.76

Rahul Dravid

Ind

740

52.06

14

M Richardson

NZ

728

54.40

15

Mark Waugh

Aus

705

42.57

16=

Herschelle.Gibbs

SA

702

39.74

Craig McMillan

NZ

702

43.27

18

M.Trescothick

Eng

700

38.55

19

K Sangakkara

SL

695

46.17

20

Daryll Cullinan

SA

688

44.21

Bowling

Name

Rating

Average

1

Muttiah Muralitharan

SL

915

23.53

2

Glenn McGrath

Aus

914

21.67

3

Shaun Pollock

SA

892

20.72

4

Shane Warne

Aus

748

26.52

5

Waqar Younis

Pak

733

22.65

6

Allan Donald

SA

731

22.25

7

Darren Gough

Eng

724

27.57

8

Anil Kumble

Ind

719

27.70

9=

Chris Cairns

NZ

699

28.91

Saqlain Mushtaq

Pak

699

28.86

11

Jason Gillespie

Aus

693

25.33

12

Chaminda Vaas

Sri

665

28.81

13

Javagal Srinath

Ind

639

29.77

14

Harbhajan Singh

Ind

631

29.07

15

Brett Lee

Aus

609

25.09

16

Stuart MacGill

Aus

596

25.01

17

Wasim Akram

Pak

595

23.62

18

Andrew Caddick

Eng

588

29.79

19

Daniel Vettori

NZ

584

32.28

20

Colin Miller

Aus

579

26.15

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