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Dubai, Aug 31 (ANI): Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has reclaimed the number-one position in the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen for the fourth time in his career after brilliant knocks in the second Test against New Zealand.

The Sri Lanka captain followed up his [...]

Dubai, Aug.24 (ANI): England off-spinner Graeme Swann has jumped no fewer than 17 places and into the top 10 in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers for the first time in his career.

The 30-year-old took eight wickets in the Oval Test match underlying his position as England’s top slow bowler and moving [...]

Dubai, July 15 (ANI): Gautam Gambhir has become the first India batsman in over four years to head the batting rankings after a double failure by Mohammad Yousuf dropped him out of the top three of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player [...]

Dubai, July 13 (ANI): Australia’s batsmen are on the move in the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen with three of them achieving career-best rankings after a nail-biting finish in the first Ashes Test against England at Cardiff.

pener Simon Katich, middle-order batsmen Marcus [...]

Dubai, July 6 (IANS) India’s Yuvraj Singh achieved a career-best second position in the Reliance Mobile International Cricket Council’s rankings for ODI batsmen released Monday.
Yuvraj jumped two places following his good performance against the West Indies that included a century at Kingston.
He is now behind captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who has consolidated his number one [...]

Dubai, July 2 (ANI): Following victory over Sri Lanka in the final of the ICC World Twenty20 2009 at Lord’s last month, Pakistan aims to carry that momentum into the three-Test series against Sri Lanka starting at Galle on Saturday [...]

Dubai, May 10 (ANI): Younus Khan regains number-one position after West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul lost his number-one position in the latest ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after his side’s 10-wicket defeat to England at Lord’s.

The Guyanese left-hander, who won the player of the year for 2008 at the LG ICC Awards and has been [...]

Dubai, Apr.4 (ANI): Australia has regained the number one spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship after defeating South Africa by 141 runs in the first ODI of the five-match series in Durban on Friday.

Australia, which surrendered its top position to the Proteas after [...]

London, Mar. 16 (ANI): India master blaster Virender Sehwag has reached on the sixth position of the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Player Rankings, while champion batsman Sachin Tendulkar has reached on the thirteenth position.

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has retained his first position, but Kulasekara has replaces Vettori on top of bowling listing.

Yuvraj has risen [...]

Dubai, Mar 13 (ANI): Indian opener Mithali Raj, who scored 59 against England and 75 not out against Sri Lanka, has swapped places with Lisa Sthalekar of Australia who has slipped to third place after some disappointing performances with the bat by her high standards.

England duo of Claire Taylor and Isa Guha, and Lisa Sthalekar [...]

Melbourne, Mar 12 (ANI): Australia’s two most exciting prospects for Ashes 2009 series, Mitchell Johnson and Phillip Hughes, have made big impressions in the latest ICC player rankings.

Johnson, the new pace spearhead in the absence of injured duo Stuart Clark and Brett Lee, has climbed to the second spot in [...]

Dubai/Karachi, Feb.16 (ANI): The ICC has briefed the Pakistan and Sri Lanka players, backroom staff and officials on the new ICC Anti-Doping Code (2009) which came into effect on January 1,2009.

The code has several changes from the ICC’s previous anti-doping regulations, including the adoption of the International Registered Testing Pool (IRTP), made up of the [...]

Dubai, Jan.15 (ANI): Matthew Hayden’s position of 10th and 18th in the all-time Test and ODI Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for batsmen is an impressive achievement by anyone’s standards, but this has sparked off a debate on whether he is actually the 10th-best Test batsman or 18th-best ODI batsman in the history of the [...]