ID Rat. Name Nat. Career Best Rating
1 828 M.S. Dhoni 828 v West Indies, 03/07/2009
2 784 Yuvraj Singh 794 v West Indies, 26/06/2009
3 767 M.E.K. Hussey 863 v New Zealand, 28/01/2007
4 759 S. Chanderpaul 793 v England, 22/03/2009
5 756 C.H. Gayle 804 v Zimbabwe, 30/11/2003
6 752 A.B. de Villiers 753 v Australia, 13/04/2009
7 732 V. Sehwag 774 v New Zealand, 11/01/2003
8 731 G.C. Smith 792 v Bangladesh, 14/03/2008
9 712 H.H. Gibbs 750 v Sri Lanka, 03/03/2003
10 707 J.H. Kallis 816 v West Indies, 04/02/2004
11 705 M.J. Clarke 756 v Sri Lanka, 22/02/2008
12 694 K.C. Sangakkara 760 v India, 11/02/2007
13 692 K.P. Pietersen 834 v Australia, 08/04/2007
14* 689 S.R. Tendulkar 887 v Zimbabwe, 13/11/1998
15 680 R.T. Ponting 832 v New Zealand, 20/12/2007
16 675 Mohammad Yousuf 777 v South Africa, 10/10/2003
17 662 R.L. Taylor 699 v Australia, 10/02/2009
17 662 G. Gambhir 713 v Sri Lanka, 05/02/2009
19 656 R.R. Sarwan 798 v India, 23/05/2006
20 654 A. Symonds 778 v India, 14/10/2007
21 651 Younus Khan 673 v West Indies, 16/11/2008
22 646 S.T. Jayasuriya 838 v Bangladesh, 14/02/2003
23 642 Salman Butt 698 v Sri Lanka, 21/01/2009
24 635 Shoaib Malik 690 v West Indies, 12/11/2008
25 623 Shakib Al Hasan 636 v Zimbabwe, 11/08/2009
25 623 J.P. Duminy 632 v Australia, 13/04/2009
27 619 P.D. Collingwood 669 v New Zealand, 21/06/2008
28 615 I.R. Bell 705 v India, 27/08/2007
29 610 B.B. McCullum 654 v Ireland, 01/07/2008
30 602 D.P.M.D. Jayawardena 737 v West Indies, 19/12/2001
31 601 Misbah-ul-Haq 602 v West Indies, 16/11/2008
32 597 B.J. Haddin 616 v Pakistan, 22/04/2009
33 594 T.M. Dilshan 609 v India, 08/02/2009
34 592 S.B. Styris 665 v England, 28/06/2008
35 591 O.A. Shah 591 v West Indies, 26/05/2009
36 588 Tamim Iqbal 600 v Zimbabwe, 16/08/2009
37 585 S. Raina 607 v New Zealand, 08/03/2009
38 575 M.V. Boucher 642 v Scotland, 20/03/2007
39 543 R.N. ten Doeschate 544 v Bermuda, 08/04/2009
40 540 H.M. Amla 573 v Australia, 30/01/2009
41 535 J.D.P. Oram 584 v Bangladesh, 11/10/2008
42 533 J.M. How 604 v England, 20/02/2008
43 532 M.J. Guptill 532 v India, 14/03/2009
43 532 Kamran Akmal 539 v Sri Lanka, 07/08/2009
45 528 S.R. Watson 528 v Pakistan, 03/05/2009
45 528 A. Flintoff 749 v Sri Lanka, 18/09/2004
47 525 S.C. Williams 536 v Bangladesh, 11/08/2009
48 523 R.S. Morton 605 v South Africa, 20/01/2008
48 523 P.G. Fulton 633 v England, 09/02/2008
50 522 E. Chigumbura 573 v South Africa, 22/08/2007
51 521 J.D. Ryder 521 v India, 14/03/2009
52 520 Mohammad Ashraful 540 v Zimbabwe, 09/08/2009
52 520 L.P.C. Silva 603 v West Indies, 10/04/2008
54 518 A.J. Strauss 697 v Pakistan, 10/12/2005
55 517 J.R. Hopes 517 v Pakistan, 27/04/2009
56 512 H. Masakadza 514 v Bangladesh, 14/08/2009
57 510 Shahid Afridi 663 v India, 02/10/1997
58 509 W.U. Tharanga 688 v New Zealand, 28/12/2006
59 507 B.R.M. Taylor 579 v Bangladesh, 04/08/2006
60 498 S.E. Marsh 595 v South Africa, 18/01/2009
60 498 R.S. Bopara 498 v West Indies, 26/05/2009
62 491 S.O. Tikolo 535 v South Africa, 30/09/1999
63 490 Raqibul Hasan 490 v Zimbabwe, 18/08/2009
64 487 Rizwan Cheema 487 v Holland, 11/07/2009
65 484 C.J. Ferguson 484 v Pakistan, 03/05/2009
66 481 G.D. Elliott 486 v Australia, 13/02/2009
66 481 K.J. O'Brien 490 v Canada, 06/04/2009
68 478 S.H.T. Kandamby 478 v Pakistan, 09/08/2009
69 473 C.K. Kapugedera 493 v Zimbabwe, 28/11/2008
69 473 W.T.S. Porterfield 475 v Kenya, 11/07/2009
71 471 S. Matsikenyeri 501 v West Indies, 02/12/2007
72 469 A. Obanda 487 v Zimbabwe, 01/02/2009
73 465 D.J.J. Bravo 494 v Zimbabwe, 07/12/2007
74 461 N.J. O'Brien 468 v Canada, 19/04/2009
74 461 Shahriar Nafees 697 v Bermuda, 25/02/2007
76 459 R.G. Sharma 471 v New Zealand, 14/03/2009
77 457 M.N. Samuels 632 v Sri Lanka, 11/06/2003
78 456 T. Taibu 499 v Bangladesh, 26/01/2005
79 452 Abdul Razzaq 635 v India, 19/03/2004
80 450 A. Bagai 459 v Scotland, 07/07/2009
81 447 S. Dhaniram 447 v Holland, 11/07/2009
82 445 M.J. Prior 445 v West Indies, 26/05/2009
83 442 C.K. Coventry 460 v Bangladesh, 16/08/2009
84 441 Aftab Ahmed 599 v Bermuda, 25/02/2007
85 440 Mushfiqur Rahim 440 v Zimbabwe, 18/08/2009
86 439 L.O. Cann 482 v Kenya, 25/10/2007
87 437 A.R. Uthappa 509 v Pakistan, 05/11/2007
88 435 A.N. Cook 488 v New Zealand, 23/02/2008
89 426 C.O. Obuya 426 v Ireland, 12/07/2009
90 422 A.M. Samad 442 v Bermuda, 01/07/2008
91 421 R.R. Watson 443 v India, 16/08/2007
91 421 T.M. Odoyo 481 v Canada, 18/10/2007
93 416 E.J.G. Morgan 416 v West Indies, 26/05/2009
94 413 J.M. Davison 440 v New Zealand, 03/03/2003
94 413 D.J. Hussey 469 v New Zealand, 10/02/2009
94 413 G.M. Hamilton 439 v New Zealand, 31/05/1999
97 411 V. Sibanda 525 v Pakistan, 21/01/2008
98 410 M.A. Vermeulen 442 v West Indies, 26/11/2003
98 410 N.F.I. McCallum 410 v Canada, 08/07/2009
100 407 C.J. Chibhabha 471 v Sri Lanka, 28/11/2008

ID Rat. Name Nat. Career Best Rating
1 847 G. Gambhir 847 v New Zealand, 03/04/2009
2 838 K.C. Sangakkara 938 v England, 01/12/2007
3 821 S. Chanderpaul 901 v New Zealand, 19/12/2008
4 818 Mohammad Yousuf 933 v West Indies, 27/11/2006
5 808 M.J. Clarke 855 v England, 09/08/2009
6 801 Younus Khan 880 v Sri Lanka, 21/02/2009
7 795 D.P.M.D. Jayawardena 854 v Bangladesh, 26/12/2008
8 782 G.C. Smith 810 v Australia, 26/12/2008
9 779 R.T. Ponting 942 v England, 01/12/2006
10 755 J.H. Kallis 935 v New Zealand, 18/11/2007
11 742 A.G. Prince 756 v Pakistan, 11/01/2007
12 740 A.J. Strauss 769 v South Africa, 13/01/2005
12 740 A.B. de Villiers 740 v Australia, 19/03/2009
14 727 K.P. Pietersen 909 v West Indies, 28/05/2007
15 720 S.R. Tendulkar 898 v Zimbabwe, 21/02/2002
16 707 T.T. Samaraweera 707 v New Zealand, 18/08/2009
17 704 R.R. Sarwan 767 v England, 26/02/2009
18 703 V.V.S. Laxman 753 v Australia, 02/01/2004
19 695 T.M. Dilshan 695 v New Zealand, 18/08/2009
20 687 S.M. Katich 720 v England, 08/07/2009
21 685 V. Sehwag 854 v South Africa, 28/11/2004
22 674 M.E.K. Hussey 921 v West Indies, 23/05/2008
23 645 C.H. Gayle 704 v England, 13/02/2009
24 644 H.M. Amla 671 v Australia, 03/01/2009
25 637 R. Dravid 892 v Pakistan, 16/03/2005
26 634 A.N. Cook 711 v Sri Lanka, 18/12/2007
27 619 R.L. Taylor 625 v India, 03/04/2009
28 609 P.D. Collingwood 730 v Australia, 01/12/2006
29 591 D.L. Vettori 608 v England, 05/03/2008
30 589 B.J. Haddin 623 v England, 16/07/2009
31 583 A. Symonds 718 v West Indies, 30/05/2008
32 581 P.J. Hughes 599 v England, 16/07/2009
33 573 M.S. Dhoni 573 v New Zealand, 03/04/2009
34 568 M.J. Prior 589 v Australia, 09/08/2009
35 564 Kamran Akmal 614 v Sri Lanka, 21/02/2009
36 563 J.D. Ryder 607 v India, 26/03/2009
37 551 I.R. Bell 704 v South Africa, 10/07/2008
38 547 Shoaib Malik 547 v Sri Lanka, 20/07/2009
39 542 M.J. North 610 v England, 09/08/2009
40 534 Misbah-ul-Haq 610 v Sri Lanka, 21/02/2009
41 532 N.D. McKenzie 642 v England, 30/07/2008
42 526 B.B. McCullum 558 v India, 26/03/2009
43 510 D.J.J. Bravo 579 v England, 15/06/2007
44 499 Shakib Al Hasan 499 v West Indies, 20/07/2009
45 496 P.A. Jaques 631 v India, 02/01/2008
46 482 J.D.P. Oram 606 v Australia, 18/11/2004
47 465 M.V. Boucher 566 v England, 14/08/2003
48 461 A. Flintoff 645 v Sri Lanka, 11/05/2006
49 454 Yuvraj Singh 506 v Pakistan, 29/01/2006
50 450 S.C.J. Broad 450 v Australia, 20/08/2009
51 446 J.P. Duminy 466 v Australia, 06/03/2009
52 445 I.J.L. Trott 445 v Australia, 20/08/2009
53 443 Mushfiqur Rahim 443 v West Indies, 20/07/2009
54 442 Shahriar Nafees 479 v South Africa, 29/02/2008
55 440 H.H. Gibbs 825 v West Indies, 16/01/2004
56 436 Wasim Jaffer 608 v Pakistan, 30/11/2007
57 435 Salman Butt 540 v England, 20/11/2005
57 435 M.G. Johnson 477 v England, 16/07/2009
59 431 B.P. Nash 492 v England, 06/05/2009
60 426 L. Vincent 558 v Zimbabwe, 15/08/2005
61 424 Tamim Iqbal 432 v New Zealand, 04/01/2008
62 417 Fawad Alam 445 v Sri Lanka, 12/07/2009
63 408 D. Ramdin 437 v England, 17/05/2007
64 407 B.S.M. Warnapura 518 v India, 08/08/2008
64 407 I.K. Pathan 464 v South Africa, 03/04/2008
66 403 Yasir Hameed 529 v India, 24/03/2005
67 400 D.E. Bernard 400 v Bangladesh, 20/07/2009
68 398 Habibul Bashar 656 v Pakistan, 03/09/2003
69 396 Mohammad Ashraful 491 v Sri Lanka, 03/07/2007
70 391 S.R. Watson 391 v England, 20/08/2009
71 387 T.M. Dowlin 387 v Bangladesh, 20/07/2009
72 385 Junaid Siddique 416 v West Indies, 09/07/2009
73 381 M.N. Samuels 488 v South Africa, 10/01/2008
74 379 B.J. Hodge 518 v South Africa, 16/12/2005
75 377 D.S. Smith 407 v Australia, 03/11/2005
76 371 L.P.C. Silva 489 v New Zealand, 15/12/2006
77 369 D.R. Flynn 432 v India, 18/03/2009
78 366 R.S. Bopara 444 v West Indies, 14/05/2009
79 361 G.P. Swann 361 v Australia, 20/08/2009
80 360 J.M. How 443 v England, 05/06/2008
81 354 Rajin Saleh 475 v Sri Lanka, 25/06/2007
82 353 Faisal Iqbal 365 v Australia, 03/10/2002
83 351 D. Ganga 480 v England, 17/05/2007
84 349 C.D. Cumming 434 v South Africa, 18/11/2007
85 348 J.A. Morkel 348 v Australia, 19/03/2009
85 348 M.G. Vandort 460 v England, 09/12/2007
87 346 C.K. Kapugedera 367 v Bangladesh, 03/01/2009
88 343 A.D. Mathews 343 v New Zealand, 18/08/2009
89 340 M.S. Sinclair 649 v Pakistan, 15/03/2001
90 333 Mohammad Hafeez 417 v England, 17/08/2006
91 330 W.U. Tharanga 508 v Bangladesh, 08/03/2006
92 329 H.A.P.W. Jayawardene 356 v India, 08/08/2008
92 329 K.K.D. Karthik 461 v England, 09/08/2007
92 329 T.R. Ambrose 381 v New Zealand, 13/03/2008
95 321 O. Phillips 360 v Bangladesh, 09/07/2009
96 316 T.G McIntosh 319 v West Indies, 19/12/2008
97 309 Aftab Ahmed 335 v South Africa, 29/02/2008
98 301 R.S. Morton 359 v Australia, 23/05/2008
99 296 Raqibul Hasan 296 v West Indies, 20/07/2009
100 295 Khurram Manzoor 298 v Sri Lanka, 01/03/2009

ICC Test Championship



23 Aug 2009 Team Matches Points Rating
South Africa 30 3672 122
Sri Lanka 24 2852 119
India 28 3327 119
Australia 31 3600 116
England 39 4102 105
Pakistan 17 1424 84
New Zealand 22 1794 82
West Indies 25 1910 76
Bangladesh 19 255 13




ICC ODI Championship



18 Aug 2009 Team Matches Points Rating
South Africa 18 2280 127
India 26 3286 126
Australia 22 2626 119
England 18 1990 111
New Zealand 15 1651 110
Pakistan 21 2297 109
Sri Lanka 25 2600 104
West Indies 18 1397 78
Bangladesh 23 1257 55
Ireland 5 135 27
Zimbabwe 20 513 26
Kenya 9 0 0

Best in the World Belief in himself, the will to win, the fear and respect of the rivals--he has it all. India's star batsman is sheer genius. What makes him a living legend?


I don't think anything is impossible. Of course, I'm not always right.
-- Sachin Tendulkar, after scoring 142 against Australia

This is the first thing about genius. Self-belief. Inside the stomach of some men smoulders a defiance that is abnormal, a will so powerful that no ordinary barometer can register it. We dream, Tendulkar does. On that day when the sandstorm blew in to stop play -- it was God announcing he had taken his seat -- Tendulkar told coach Anshuman Gaekwad in the dressing room: "Don't worry I'll be there in the end." Don't worry! With four of the topline batsmen out and 94 runs to get in 87 balls; Vinoo Mammen of MRF telling his wife, "Let's go to the hotel and cry", and hope generally abandoned by all. Except by one man. Later, a spectator says, "It's sad one billion people in India have to rely on one man." This is the second thing about genius. Desire. They could have turned off the lights in Sharjah, Tendulkar's shots would have illuminated the city,such is the sunlight of his batting. India has qualified for the final, but he paces the dressing room hissing, "I was not out." It was the rage of a man who believes he has no limits. He was not there to help India qualify, he was there to win the match. We small, Tendulkar lives bigger. Says Allan Border, Australian coach, a day later:


"Hell, if he stayed, even at 11 an over he would have got it." This is the third thing about genius. Fear. From the Aussie dressing room bustling with hard men, all sorts of stories emerge. One strategy is "get the bugger to the other end"; another says, "We bowled short, on the off stump,nothing worked." Michael Kasprowicz is sort of speechless. In the first match,he hits Tendulkar on the pads, smirks, gets hit for two successive fours. This match it's two successive sixes. Now he swears, "Shit, I'm sick of this *$#%."


This is the final thing about genius and that innings. Respect. next day, by the pool side of the Princeton Hotel, WorldTel boss Mark Mascarenhas throws a party for Tendulkar. Friday, final day, is his birthday and it strikes you starkly that as he turns 25, he has more centuries (14 in one dayers, 16 in Tests) than he has years in front of his name. Meanwhile, in a corner the conversation goes something like this:

Border : It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him.

Ian Chappell : Yeah mate, but that's with all great players.

Border : Well yes, but imagine what he'll be like when he's 28. I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd do okay.".

Finish the argument, close the conversation, end the discussion
about Brian Lara. The Aussies insist.

Mark Waugh says, "Sachin's better; Lara is more risky outside the off stump." Shane Warne adds, "Nothing affects Sachin, Brian lets things bother him."

Steve Waugh then takes the debate to a higher plane with one statement, a grand canyon of a compliment actually:

"In history Sachin will go down as second to Bradman."

What he's saying is this: Tendulkar owns the present, and perhaps one day will surpass the past as well. It is too early to go further, but this much can be said already. His average in Tests at 54.84 is already higher than those of Greg Chappell, Vivian Richards, Javed Miandad, Lara, or Sunil Gavaskar. But it's not just that, it's not either the awesome truth that in 61 Tests he has 16 centuries, while Richards got 24 in 121 Tests. No, statistics are not the scale to judge him by; it is in the stories that the bowlers tell, the men who stare at him down 22 yards. Listen to Warne: "You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. He's going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway." Kasprowicz has a superior story. During the Bangalore Test, frustrated,he went to Dennis Lillee and asked, "Mate, do you see any weaknesses?" Lillee replied, "No Michael, as long as you walk off with your pride that's all you can do."

There is no one thing to greatness. It is physical, alertness, technique, wisdom, humility, patience, vision, but more a confluence of these in one surging river of genius. Tendulkar, five centuries in his last 12 Test innings,but not yet arrived at his peak, is a river bursting its banks. What doesn't he have? He is short, a Maradona of a man at 5 ft 4 inch, and, like the footballer, blessed with a balance that all sport demands. He can see so well that as the ball leaves the bowler's hand, he has decided -- while lesser men are still deciding -- where to go, back or forward. He is never wrong. He is calm, the impulses from his brain bringing the message to the body never impeded by tension or indecision. When he does this, he gains something: time. Other men look rushed, he unhurried and able to play any shot he desires, arrogant hook or artful slide. He has vision or what Chappell calls "peripheral awareness", a man who without looking already has a map of the field logged into his brain. He has technique, says Ravi Shastri, meeting the ball under the chin and the eyebrow where timing comes sweetest. It is so outrageous these gifts, to play with the abandon of a street thug and yet with the finesse of Michelangelo, that some men find it unreasonable. Master technician Geoffrey Boycott, so goes one story, actually called to argue when Gavaskar recently said that Tendulkar's technique was the best.

He has ... is there anything left? Yes, he has strength, in wrist, in thigh. The heavy bat helps. Still, says Warne, he has enormous power

"It's a bit discouraging. In India he ran down the pitch and hit me off the toe of the bat. It should have gone to mid-on but it went for a six."

On that day in Sharjah, it was in evidence again. Gaekwad was stunned, for Tendulkar was running singles like a demon -- four 3s, fifteen 2s, thirty-five 1s -- yet hitting sixes (five of them) in between.

"The running tires you, yet he was never out of position for a shot."

"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can you bowl me another one?'" -- Adam Hollioke to a friend.

So what is it Tendulkar, what's the motivation, what moves you?

Records? No. He just says, flatly, "It's the challenge that drives me."

There is an understanding, a never articulated awareness among the abnormally
gifted that records will arrive anyway. It is the situation to be mastered, the opponent to be numbed that pushes such men. It is elevating not oneself but an entire sport, it is stretching the envelope of possibility, it is all this desire that lurks within Michael Jordan and John McEnroe and Sachin Tendulkar. Eleven versus one on the cricket field is the Tendulkar fantasy.

Says Shastri: "I have never seen such arrogance, such contempt for bowlers since Richards."

Yet it takes work, talent bolstered by industry. Tendulkar will sweat at the nets on a line that troubles him. He would, prior to tours of the West Indies, get net bowlers to fire away at him from 18 yards. When he was told that like the Sri Lankans who discomforted him by bowling down the legside, Warne might aggravate him similarly, he went to the nets in Mumbai, snuffed the pitch where he expected the ball to land and asked the bowlers to bowl there. When Warne arrived, the greatest batsmen in the world awaited him. Ready. Now the search begins, in all earnestness, for the chink of daylight in his stance, the edge of weakness in his method. Tendulkar himself sees none. "I don't think I need to improve in any specific area, just generally." The aussies are as unhelpful. Steve Waugh feels -- and check this for a weakness -- "his only danger is seeing the ball too well and going for his shot too early". Warne says bowl dot balls to frustrate him. Kasprowicz says, "Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours."

They know, Tendulkar knows there is no fragility apparent. As with all such men, it is only themselves who can prove to be the enemy; Tendulkar may nurture his genius or spurn it, the responsibility of greatness lies with him. It seems he understands that. He is surer now than before, less driven to petulant strokes or rakish indiscretion. That innings was just a reminder, a page from a book, that this is a batsman who was conceived under God's full attention. Imagine, what greater deeds remain, the other pages of that book are yet to be turned. Of that night some final stories remain. Chappell saying, "What would I want of his batting? Everything." And then finally, Ajay Jadeja, echoing us all: "I can't dream of an innings like that. He exists where we can't."

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