Sarwan Moves into ODI Top 10

Outstanding form in the recently completed series against Zimbabwe has seen the West Indies' Ramnaresh Sarwan move into the top 10 of the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen.

Sarwan was the leading run-scorer on either side with 254 runs, including three half-centuries and a highest score of 91, and that has been enough to move him up four places to ninth spot in the batting list.

Sarwan is the highest-placed West Indies player in that list, although many of his team-mates are also moving in the right direction too. Chris Gayle is up three positions to 14th, former captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul is 26th (up six) and Runako Morton, who made 109 in Saturday?s rain-ruined match, is up 12 places to joint 50th, alongside Lou Vincent of New Zealand.

Brian Lara, playing his first ODIs for the West Indies since May 2005, remains unchanged in 33rd place.

Gayle is also on the rise in the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders, moving up two places to fourth in that list. He is now just behind India?s Irfan Pathan, who occupies third place, with Shaun Pollock of South Africa and England?s Andrew Flintoff in the top two spots.

The batting list is topped by Australia?s Adam Gilchrist with Mahendra Singh Dhoni of India in second position.

The West Indies have only one player in the top 20 of the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers, left-armer Ian Bradshaw, who is unchanged in 15th place.

Below Bradshaw, Corey Collymore has moved up two places to 29th while Gayle is up 16 spots to 30th and Jerome Taylor has broken into the top 100. The leading wicket-taker in the five-match series with nine victims, Taylor is now 93rd in the list.

The West Indies? 5-0 series win has seen it collect two rating points and although that has not been enough to lift it up the LG ICC ODI Championship table, it has reduced the gap to seventh-placed England to 12 points.

Lara?s side has a chance to close that gap even further when it begins a five-match series with India in Jamaica on Thursday.