West Indies and T&T Test batsmen Darren Bravo and Kirk Edwards each made significant gains in the latest ICC Test Batting Rankings following their centuries in the second Test against Bangladesh in Mirpur this week.Bravo moved from 53rd to 40th with scores of 12 and 195 while Edwards (121 and 86) jumped 30 places to 47th.Shivnarine Chanderpaul (18 & 59 n.o.) dropped from eighth to ninth but remains West Indies highest rated batsman, Marlon Samuels (48) climbed two spots to 67th, and openers Kraigg Brathwaite (50 & 0) and Kieran Powell (72 & 12) are 131st and 139th respectively.
Other West Indians in the top 100 include Chris Gayle (24th), Ramnaresh Sarwan (43rd), Dwayne Bravo (57th), Brendan Nash (59th), Narsingh Deonarine (77th), Adrian Barath (80th), Denesh Ramdin (82nd), Travis Dowlin (86th), Devon Smith (87th) and captain Darren Sammy (100th).South Africa's Jacques Kallis is the leading batsman in the world with the rest of the top five occupied by Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara, Englishmen Alistair Cook and Ian Bell and India's Sachin Tendulkar.Among the bowlers, fast bowler Fidel Edwards (5-63 and 1-56) skipped two spots to 18th, legspinner Devendra Bishoo (3-62 and 5-90) jumped from 50th to 40th, medium pacer Sammy (0-32 and 2-19) climbed four places to 29th and fast man Kemar Roach (0-52 and 1-49) fell from 30th to 37th.
South African pacer Dale Steyn continued his unbroken streak at number one which has lasted since December, 2009. In second and third are England's James Anderson and Graeme Swann while Steyn's partner in crime Morne Morkel and Englishman Stuart Broad round out the top five respectively.Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan, who was named Manof the Series, moved up two places to third in the Allrounder Rankings after scoring 168 runs (Ave: 56.00) and taking 10 wickets (Ave: 22.90) in the two Tests. He stands at seventh among bowlers and 41st among batsmen.Kallis is also the leading allrounder, followed by Broad. New Zealand's Daniel Vettori and Australia's Shane Watson are fourth and fifth respectively.
Top Test Batsmen
1. JH Kallis (SA) 883 pts
2. KC Sangakkara (SL) 854 pts
3. AN Cook (Eng) 823 pts
4. IR Bell (Eng) 822 pts
5. SR Tendulkar (Ind) 814 pts
6. MEK Hussey (Aus) 806 pts
7. IJL Trott (Eng) 776 pts
8. KP Pietersen (Eng) 770 pts
9. S Chanderpaul (WI) 769 pts
10. R Dravid (Ind) 762 pts
Top Test Bowlers
1. DW Steyn (SA) 899 pts
2. JM Anderson (Eng) 811 pts
3. GP Swann (Eng) 755 pts
4. M Morkel (SA) 751 pts
5. SCJ Broad (Eng) 744 pts
6. Zaheer Khan (Ind) 713 pts
7. Shakib Al Hasan (Ban) 680 pts
8. MG Johnson (Aus) 669 pts
9. DL Vettori (NZ) 623 pts
9. TT Bresnan (Eng) 623 pts
