Dhoni retains No 1 spot in ODI rankings

Mahendra Singh Dhoni  retained number one position in the Reliance [Get Quote] Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen after the West Indies’  big guns Chris Gayle  and Shivnarine Chanderpaul  failed to make an impression in the series against England , which ended at Edgbaston on Tuesday.

Gayle went into the series trailing Dhoni by 33 points but after aggregating just 42 runs from it, the Jamaican dropped one place to third while his team mate Chanderpaul moved to second spot after a series contribution of 95 runs.

Owais Shah, who was the leading run-getter in the series with 113 runs, climbed three places to 34th while Matt Prior, who scored 98 runs in the series, rocketed 22 places to 77th position.

However, former England captain Kevin Pietersen  dropped a place to 15th while Ramnaresh Sarwan slipped three places to 19.

There is no change in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders as Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh still leads the field.

Stuart Broad became England’s highest-ranked bowler in ODIs after a successful series against the West Indies.

Broad finished as the leading wicket-taker in the series with six wickets, including 4-46 in the second ODI at Bristol, and was rewarded with a jump of four places. The 22-year-old fast bowler now sits alongside Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi  in a career-best ninth position.

Broad replaced Andrew Flintoff  in the top 10; the Lancastrian dropped out after missing the series due to knee injury.

A player loses one per cent of his ratings for every match missed and, as such, Flintoff slipped two places to 11th.

Jerome Taylor , who was the most successful West Indies bowler in the series with four wickets, retained 14th place but three wickets apiece by James Anderson  and Paul Collingwood lifted the pair by two and seven places respectively.

Anderson is now placed 30th while Collingwood is 55th.

The bowling table is still headed by Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Kulasekara  while Kyle Mills  of New Zealand  is second and Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka third.

In the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table, England’s 2-0 victory earned it one rating point and it is now on 109 rating points, just two behind fifth-placed Pakistan.

The defeat, however, cost the West Indies two ratings points and it has dropped to 90 rating points, 15 behind seventh-placed Sri Lanka.