da betsul： Dale Steyn and Brett Lee have broken into the top five in the ICC player rankings for Test bowlers
da spicy bet： Cricinfo staff20-Nov-2007
Dale Steyn sent the New Zealand batsmen packing in the two-Test series in South Africa © Getty Images
Dale Steyn and Brett Lee, who won the Man-of-the-Series awards in the recent clean sweeps for South Africa and Australia, have broken into the top five in the ICC player rankings for Test bowlers.Steyn dismantled the New Zealand batsmen with 20 wickets in two Tests, and has skyrocketed to third place in the list – he was ranked 28th before the start of the series. Lee is two places behind him in fifth, having finished with 16 wickets in the two Tests Australia played against Sri Lanka.Steyn’s team-mate Jacques Kallis is now one point away from Lee’s compatriot Ricky Ponting at the top of the list for Test batsmen. Kallis followed up his three hundreds in four innings against Pakistan with two more in three innings against New Zealand.The other mover in the top ten Test batsmen is Kumar Sangakkara, who jumped to third place – ahead of Mohammad Yousuf – on the back of his 57 and 192 in the second Test against Australia.
Name
Country
Rating
1M. MuralitharanSL9042M. NtiniSA8083D.W. SteynSA7754S.R. ClarkAUS7695B. LeeAUS7266S.E. BondNZ7247A. KumbleIND7028S.M. PollockSA7019M.J. HoggardENG70010 Shoaib AkhtarPAK684Top 100
Name
Country
Rating
1R.T. PontingAUS9362J.H. KallisSA9353K.C. SangakkaraSL9194 Mohammad YousufPAK9085M.E.K. HusseyAUS8746K.P. PietersenENG8727 Younis KhanPAK8288M.L. HaydenAUS8039S. ChanderpaulWI76210M.J. ClarkeAUS751Top 100
