With the news that Nathan Bracken and Michael Hussey have risen to the top of ICC Rankings for best ODI Bowler and Test Batsman respectively, I thought I’d take a look at the ICC Rankings for cricket for an objective view on the World’s dominant Test and ODI Batsmen, Bowlers and Teams.
Test Cricket
Team
Top Test Team: Australia
Gap from field: 19%
Batting
No 1: Mike Hussey
Dominant nation: Australia with 1, 4 (Ponting) and 9 (Hayden) are the only nation with 3 batsmen in the Top 10
Bowling
No 1: that mother chucker
Dominant Nation: Australia, Sri Lanka are close
Curiously, Shane Bond is ranked 9th and hasn’t played in 11 months!!
One Day Cricket
Team
Top ODI Team: Australia
Gap from field: 11%
Batting
No 1: MS Dhoni
Dominant Nation: Australia with 2 (Hussey), 4 (Ponting), 9 (Symonds) and 10 (Hayden) are the only nation with 4 batsmen in the Top 10
Bowling
No 1: Nathan Bracken
Dominant nation in Top 10: Australia, New Zealand are close
Well there you have it, the baggy greens are ranked number 1 by a considerable margin in Test and One Day cricket, and have the best performing players in each discipline. No wonder we hold the Ashes, World Cup, Border/Gavaskar Trophy, Chappell/Hadlee Trophy and the ICC Champions Trophy
Correction:
Bond did not play a test 11 months ago. He played half a test and then broke down.
Same with his previous test.
Last time he got through a full test was Dec 2006. A 3 day test.
BTW, I note you’ve omitted the all-rounder rankings. Any reason for that?
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Truthfully I didn’t realise there were All Rounder Rankings, mostly because they not up on the rankings page and you have to go through their menus to find them.
Knowing now that there are All Rounder rankings for both Test and ODI, with Brett Lee as the worlds 7th best Test All Rounder and no Aussies featuring elsewhere, I probably would have excluded them anyway.
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You aussies love to brag dont you.
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Guilty as charged..
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