Well no surprises here. South Africa is at the top and Australia second. New Zealand is at No. 3 (and if you know that this rating doesn’t even include their 2007 performances, I’d say they are the dark horse this time) . And minnows Bangladesh’s time has also come. I am sure they may surprise this time.

The laggards include India and Pakistan. And some important cricket nations like West Indies and Zimbabwe come way down after Bangladesh who’re riding an unprecedented 13 wins in 14 matches into the world cup. Netherlands is another surprise at No. 11 as some of their players have an astounding record and if they play as per their record they may spring a surprise match win…

Ireland’s ranking is not much relevant as they’ve played only 3 matches. The real competition seems to be between the Top 4 - South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and England. Jayasuriya is capable of squeezing in Sri Lanka if he tries hard enough as he’s riding on his huge come back form in 2006. And if you remember he’s done it alone once earlier too!

Pakistan will surely have a tough time. India though very smart on paper don’t have figures to prove, though they are expected to make the last 8 surely.

 S.No. Country
1 South Africa
2 Australia
3 New Zealand
4 Enqland
5 Sri Lanka
6 Ireland (rating based on only 3 matches they played)
7 Pakistan
8 India
9 Canada
10 Bangladesh
11 Netherlands
12 West Indies
13 Zimbabwe
14 Bermuda
15 Scotland
16 Kenya
*These rankings are based on Teams who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms.

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Did you know there is an allrounder called “RN ten Doeschate” who plays for Netherlands? Well if you check out his performance, he was the Most Valuable Player of 2006!! His record was much above that of Jacques Kallis!!! In the 6 matches that he played, he scored 259 runs at a phenomenal average of 51.80 at a strike rate of 103.6. And he topped this with a bowling figures of 7 wickets in 6 matches at a strike rate of 39.4 balls and took 2 catches. He was also the No. 2 One Day Batsman of 2006.

Shaun Pollock at No.2 was no surprise as 2006 saw him contribute a lot with the bat to even overshadow Jacques Kallis. He scored 279 runs at an average of 29.15 at a strike rate of 98.95 and bowled to take 32 wickets in 21 matches with an economy rate of 2.98! He also took 7 catches.

And No. 3 saw Steve Tikolo of Kenya emerging. He scored 111 runs at an average of 45 and a strike rate of 88.9, and took 11 wickets in 15 matches he played at an economy rate of 3.9. Sri Lanka has Jayasuriya and newbie Lokuarachchi coming in a No. 4 and No. 5. Jayasuriya scored 1153 runs at an average of 48.04 and a strike rate of 107.45!! He also took 16 wickets in 26 matches at a economy rate or 4.61 (this brought down his rating). New find Lokuarachchi scored 108 runs at an average of 27 and a strike rate of 108 and took 14 wickets in 6 matches at an economy rate of 4.61!!!

Australia and Bangladesh both have 3 players in Top 3.

S.No. Name Country
1 RN ten DoeschateNL
2 SM Pollock RSA
3 SO Tikolo KENYA
4 ST Jayasuriya SL
5 KS Lokuarachchi SL
6 CH Gayle WI
7 Saqibul Hasan BDESH
8 AC Gilchrist AUS
9 BJ Haddin AUS
10 Mashrafe MortazaBDESH
11 KD Mills NZ
12 JM Davison CAN
13 Abdur Razzak BDESH
14 A Symonds AUS
15 DL Vettori NZ
16 HA Varaiya KENYA
17 NJ Astle NZ
18 S Dhaniram CAN
19 Yuvraj Singh IND
20 TM Odoyo KENYA
21 DM Leverock BMDA
22 SR Watson AUS
23 ID Blackwell ENG
24 WF Stelling NL
25 SE Bond NZ
26 MV Boucher RSA
27 MS Dhoni IND
28 KC Sangakkara SL
29 PJ Ongondo KENYA
30 Mohammad RafiqueBDESH

*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms.

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2 Aussies are topping the list!! Haddin of Australia was the best One Day Wicket Keeper / Fielder of 2006. He took 16 catches and made one stumping in just 7 matches. Adam Gilchrist took 32 catches and 4 stumpings in 22 matches.

And the surprise was Khaled Mashud from Bangladesh coming in at No. 3 with 23 catches and 10 stumpings in 24 matches and also at No. 3 was Mark Boucher of South Africa with with 31 catches and 2 stumpings in 24 matches.

Kumar Sangkara from Sri Lanka came in at No. 5 with 37 catches and 12 stumpings in 36 matches and also at No. 5 was D Ramdin of West Indies with with 19 catches in 14 matches.

S.No. Name Country
1 BJ Haddin AUS
2 AC Gilchrist AUS
3 Khaled Mashud BDESH
4 MV Boucher RSA
5 KC Sangakkara SL
6 D Ramdin WI
7 BB McCullum NZ
8 MS Dhoni IND
9 BRM Taylor ZIM
10 DA Minors BMDA
11 Kamran Akmal PAK
12 KO Otieno KENYA
13 A Bagai CAN
14 GO Jones ENG
15 J Smits NL
16 Kwame Tucker BMDA
17 SO Tikolo KENYA
18 J Botha RSA
19 RT Ponting AUS
20 CK Coventry ZIM
21 GC Smith RSA
22 MJ Prior ENG
23 PD Collingwood ENG
24 R Dravid IND
25 S Thuraisingam CAN
26 WF Stelling NL
27 A Symonds AUS
28 CH Gayle WI
29 CMW Read ENG
30 MEK Hussey AUS

*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms.

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