Sachin ranked 2nd, India 4th in ICC ODI rankings

Pakistani Mohd. Yousuf is at fourth with 763 points and West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul jumped five places to return to top five after his memorable performances against Sri Lanka at home.

Indian ODI skipper MS Dhoni is at 10th rank with 728 rating points.

Meanwhile, Pakistan narrowed the gap with fourth-ranked India to three ratings points after their 5-0 whitewash against Bangladesh.

South Africa (127), Australia (127) and New Zealand (113) are ahead of India (113).

The most significant change of the rankings was that Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan slipped out of the top 10 bowlers in the Reliance Mobile ICC Rankings for the first time in over a decade.

Muralitharan, who was last out of the top 10 ODI bowlers was in July 1997, skipped the ODI series which the West Indies won 2-0 and has now slipped to 11th below the Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi who climbed 11 places to enter the top 10 for the first time in his career after a successful series against Bangladesh in which he bagged 12 wickets.

No Indian is in the top 10 of the bowlers’ list headed by New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori, while Harbhajan is at 18th spot.

ODI action will resume in June when England takes on New Zealand in a five-match series from June 15.