Injury Review


Posted July 18th, 2007 by Nanda No Comments »

With the match scheduled start in a few hours, I wanted to have a look at the injury concerns for both the squads. The home team, ie England, will always have an advantage as they can always call backup players anytime. It gets more serious for the visitors, if they have two or more players down with injury.

Matthew HoggardThe latest to be injured is Matthew Hoggard from England. Its believed that he has back spasms and has been sent to the hospital for further analysis. Here is a list of the players who are not fully fit:

England:

1. Mathew Hoggard - back spasms
2. Steve Harmison - groin
3. Andrew Flintoff - ankle

India:

1. Rahul Dravid - calf strain

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Rankings


Posted July 7th, 2007 by Nanda No Comments »

Here is the official list of the teams and players as per ICC rankings. I will try to keep this updated as regularly as possible. However the latest and most updated rankings can be found here.

Test

Teams

Batsmen

Bowlers

  1. Australia (138)
  2. South Africa (116)
  3. India (109)
  4. Sri Lanka (108)
  5. England (104)
  6. Pakistan (100)
  7. New Zealand (83)
  8. West Indies (81)
  9. Bangladesh (0)
  1. Chanderpaul (WI)
  2. Sangakarra (SL)
  3. Hussey (AUS)
  4. Mohammad Yousuf (PAK)
  5. Ponting (AUS)
  6. Jayawardene (SL)
  7. Pietersen (ENG)
  8. Younis Khan (PAK)
  9. Kallis (SA)
  10. Sehwag (IND)
  1. Muralidaran (SL)
  2. Stuart Clark (AUS)
  3. Dale Steyn (SA)
  4. Brett Lee (AUS)
  5. Ntini (SA)
  6. Sidebottom (ENG)
  7. Shoaib Akhtar (PAK)
  8. Vaas (SL)
  9. Harbhajan (IND)
  10. Shane Bond (NZ)
ODI

Teams

Batsmen

Bowlers

  1. Australia (131)
  2. South Africa (118)
  3. England (116)
  4. New Zealand (113)
  5. India (113)
  6. Pakistan (110)
  7. Sri Lanka (105)
  8. West Indies (95)
  9. Bangladesh (47)
  10. Ireland (19)
  11. Zimbabwe (15)
  12. Kenya (14)
  1. Dhoni (IND)
  2. Hussey (AUS)
  3. Graeme Smith (SA)
  4. Ponting (AUS)
  5. Mohammad Yousuf (PAK)
  6. Chanderpaul (WI)
  7. Pietersen (ENG)
  8. Tendulkar (IND)
  9. Symonds (AUS)
  10. Hayden (AUS)
  1. Bracken (AUS)
  2. Vettori (NZ)
  3. Mitchell Johnson (AUS)
  4. Mills (NZ)
  5. Stuart Broad (ENG)
  6. Muralitharan (SL)
  7. Vaas (SL)
  8. Flintoff (ENG)
  9. Oram (NZ)
  10. Brett Lee (AUS)
Women’s ODI

Batting

Bowling

  1. S.C. Taylor (ENG)
  2. M. Raj (IND)
  3. L.C. Sthalekar (AUS)
  4. S.J. Taylor (ENG)
  5. C.M. Edwards (ENG)
  6. N.J. Browne (AUS)
  7. K.L Rolton (AUS)
  8. A.J. Blackwell (AUS)
  9. S. Nitschke (AUS)
  10. S.J. McGlashen (AUS)
  11. H.M. Tiffen (AUS)
  12. A.L. Mason (AUS)
  13. J. Sharma (IND)
  14. L.S. Greenway (ENG)
  15. J.L. Gunn (ENG)
  16. L.D.V.V. Silva (SL)
  17. C.M.G. Atkins (ENG)
  18. C. Brits (SA)
  19. C.M. Beggs (IRE)
  20. R. Dhar (IND)
  1. J. Goswami (IND)
  2. I.T. Guha (ENG)

For full Player ratings, click here.

Monty Panesar breaks ICC Top 10 barrier


Posted June 21st, 2007 by Nanda No Comments »

After a stunning performance with the ball in the recently concluded test series against the West Indies, Monty Panesar has made it to the ICC Top 10 list of test bowlers. With a total of 23 wickets, Monty gained a total of 6 places to be joint 6th on the ICC list with fellow bowler Mathew Hoggard. Monty will have a chance to further improve his tally during the forthcoming series against India, although, I might add that this will be extremely difficult as Indians are the best players of spin bowling. Ask Shane Warne.