da aposte e ganhe： After an action-packed week of Test cricket, Brian Lara and Rahul Dravid rose to the top of the PwC Ratings
Wisden Cricinfo staff18-Dec-2003After an action-packed week of Test cricket, Brian Lara and Rahul Dravid rose to the top of the PwC Ratings due to their double-hundreds, while Ricky Ponting dropped a notch after scoring 242 in a losing cause. Matthew Hayden fell off his perch at the top after an indifferent showing in the Adelaide Test. Jacques Kallis(+8), Michael Vaughan(+7), and VVS Laxman(+5) were the biggest gainers after their significant hundreds assisted the team’s cause.Sachin Tendulkar drops out of the top ten for the first time since 1993, following a poor run of form since the Test series in New Zealand in 2002-03. But his fall coincides with the stunning form of batsmen around the world. Adam Gilchrist, Graham Smith, Herschelle Gibbs, Lara, Dravid, Hayden, Ponting, and Vaughan have all been prolific on the international circuit.
Rank(change)
Player
Points
1(+1)
BrianLara
903
2(+2)
RahulDravid
880
3(-2)
MatthewHayden
870
4(-1)
RickyPonting
863
5(-)
Inzamam-ul-Haq
792
6(+1)
MarkRichardson
765
7(-1)
AdamGilchrist
759
8(+7)
MichaelVaughan
757
9(+1)
HHGibbs
754
10(+8)
JacquesKallis
751
Muttiah Muralitharan and Shaun Pollock continue to occupy the top spots after good showings against England and West Indies. Makhaya Ntini returns to the top ten list after a nine-wicket haul against West Indies, while Ajit Agarkar rises 16 places to 41, and achieves his PwC high of 389 points after a splendid bowling performance in the Adelaide Test.Stuart MacGill’s drop from the list can be attributed equally to poor bowling and good batting by India. Unable to take advantage of a fifth-day track that turned viciously, MacGill was taken apart by the batsmen on their way to a famous victory. It was the kind of batting that provoked MacGill to say, “It’s not as if they know what I am bowling, it’s almost as if they don’t really seem to care what I am bowling.”
Rank(change)
Player
Points
1(-)
MMuralitharan
903
2(-)
ShaunPollock
883
3(-)
GlennMcGrath
815
4(-)
ShoaibAkhtar
791
5(-)
JasonGillespie
756
6(+6)
MakhayaNtini
695
7(-1)
DarylTuffey
692
8(+1)
AnilKumble
676
9(-2)
HarbhajanSingh
668
10(-2)
JacquesKallis
652
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