Resurgence of Team India in Ceat Cricket Rating

Mumbai, February 28, 2003 : Close on the heels of India’s memorable 82-run victory over England in the 2003 World Cup comes yet another heartening development for Indian cricket-lovers. Indian cricketers are doing very well in the CEAT World Cup Rating as well as the overall CEAT Cricket Rating for the year 2002-03.

Sachin Tendulkar towers above everybody else in the CEAT World Cup Rating with 17 points from India’s five matches in the competition. Sachin has scored two fifties and a monumental 152 from his five outings in the tournament so far. The second spot is held by two men with 12 points apiece, Sri Lankan pace ace Chaminda Vaas and South African opener Herschelle Gibbs.

Gibbs, who had climbed to the top of the overall CEAT Cricket Rating with his fine knocks against New Zealand and Kenya in the World Cup, now has company. Rahul Dravid joins him at the no. 1 spot, with a total of 87 points. Dravid gained a total of three points from the match against England, two for his innings of 62 on one side of the stumps and one for his three catches on the other. Considering that Gibbs has been South Africa’s best batsman of the competition so far and Dravid will certainly continue playing the dual roles of gloveman in the field and anchorman with the bat, it seems that the battle for the top spot will go right down to the wire.

Not far behind the duo in the overall rating is Sachin Tendulkar, who has muscled his way to the eighth spot with a current tally of 71 points. Sachin’s present opening partner Virender Sehwag is ranked fifth with 78 points. Harbhajan Singh, currently ranked 12th in the overall rating, heads the bowler’s table with 56 bowling points.