Rankings, now updated
In the middle of the ODI series, where Indian were flaying the Black Caps, Stuff were exclaiming that Vettori was holding onto his no. 1 ranking. Not likely. By the time that article saw print Vettori had already dropped to 2nd, as the recently updated rankings now show. Vettori has now in fact dropped to 5th, after going wicketless in Auckland.
Kyle Mills managed to hold onto this spot at 3, thanks to his 1/27 in Auckland. Jacob Oram dwindled a bit, dropping from 14 before the series to 19 afterwards. Patel and Southee also slipped, while O’Brien, Ryder, Elliott and Butler don’t even make it into the top 100 (they are, respectively, 118, 137, 131 and 127).
Somehow I expected things to be worse for our bowlers.
Amongst the batsmen, Ryder reached a career high of 47, which is quite impressive considering he was ranked 77 before the series. Guptill was similarly successful; starting the tour at 72 and reaching 44 by the end.
Our highest ranked batsmen remains Taylor, who has slipped out of the top 20 over the series to sit at 23. McCullum is also in the 20s, at 27, where he started the series. Styris drops into the 30s, despite not getting a bat in his one game, though that will include some degradation from missing the Chappell–Hadlee. Oram’s 8 runs in 3 innings pushes him into the 40s.
Elliott dipped slightly from 57 to 60, though that could have been as bad as 65 if it wasn’t for his furious cameo in Hamilton. Neil Broom just squeezes into the top 200. Kyle Mills didn’t improve his batting ranking much, though he finishes at 19 as an all-rounder. The biggest mover of all was Peter McGlashan,whose late innings heroics in Hamilton boosted his ranking from 329 to 235.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
You could salve your disappointment at the NZ men’s team’s loss to India by watching the White Ferns hopefully beat the Indian women’s team tomorrow, Tuesday 17th, in Sydney. It’s on Sky and Foxtel in Australia and if you’re living in Sydney – get along to the bloody game, it’s a ten minute train ride from the city and a $10 ticket!
March 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
…and vaughan and moles stooped to newest lows in mind games…check out…
http://www.boredcricketcrazyindians.com/2009/03/kiwi-for-maths-and-aussie-for-beer.html
March 17th, 2009 at 7:50 am
…and vaughan and moles stooped to newest lows in mind games…check out…
Not much acknowledgement by the Indians of the whitewash in the 20-20s however.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:58 am
You could salve your disappointment at the NZ men’s team’s loss to India by watching the White Ferns hopefully beat the Indian women’s team
11:50 till 7:30 on Sky Sports 3 in NZ. I won’t be able to follow it live, though I’ll be looking forward to the result. NZ almost certainly need to win this game to get to the finals, and a win for India should see them very likely to qualify.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Bring it on Ben
March 19th, 2009 at 2:30 am
sorry ben i forgot to include this most important form of cricket…