Monday, 12 December 2005

Karl on ... the strangeness of rankings

The revised ODI player rankings are out and make for strange reading, given the recent series against Australia exposed our bowling and showed how good some of our batsmen can be.

In the bowling rankings, NZ have six players ranked in the top 30 world players: Dan Vettori is 5th, Shane Bond 13th, Jacob Oram 17th, Kyle Mills 18th, Scott Styris 25th and Daryl Tuffey 30th. One of those is a world class player, two are injured, one has lost his way, one is a useful dobber and the other is Kyle Mills.

Amongst the batsmen, NZ have one player in the top 30: Fleming at 26th. Then we have Styris at 36th, Cairns at 37th, and Astle at 38th. Lou Vincent, who found good form recently is at 48th, and the standout player of the series, Brendan McCullum is 57th.

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