Trott, Anderson leaps to Second Place in ICC Test Rankings

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 at 12:49 pm , filed under ICC Tests by Chalmers Dugan

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"Jonathan Trott and James Anderson" Jonathan Trott and James Anderson of England have risen to the second place in Test batting and bowling respectively, of ICC test rankings.

The No.3 batsman of England occupied the second place in batting, in ICC Test rankings, while the pacer James Anderson also moved up to second place in bowling. Trott, who scored 70 and 22 in the first test at Lord’s in the ongoing four-test nPower test series, embarked two places above Sachin Tendulkar of India.

James Anderson overtook his teammate, Graeme Swann for the second place, after he took seven wickets in the match, which was also his 11th five-wicket haul, after he took 5 for 65 in the second innings.

Another pacer of England, Chris Tremlett is ninth place, after he took four wickets in the match at Lord’s, which resulted in a win for England over India with a massive 196 run margin. However, India managed two bowling spots in the top 10, with Zaheer Khan and Ishanth Sharma in fifth and seventh place respectively.

Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman are the three Indian batsmen in the top 10 test batting rankings. Sehwag is in 10th place, while Laxman is in seventh place. Sachin is at 4th place.

Jacques Kallis and Dale Steyn of South Africa occupied the top places in batting and bowling of ICC test rankings.

Check out the complete list of top 10 ICC Test Player Rankings in batting and bowling:

Batting:

1. Jacques Kallis (RSA)

2. Jonathan Trott (ENG)

3. Kumar Sangakkara (SRI)

4. Sachin Tendulkar (IND)

5. Alastair Cook (ENG)

6. Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WIS)

7. Venkatsai Laxman (IND)

8. Thilan Samaraweera (SRI)

9. AB de Villiers (RSA)