Sachin is Ceat World Cup Cricketer 2003

Mumbai, 24 March 2003: After a grueling one and a half month of serious cricket and some nail biting finishes Sachin Tendulkar topped the Ceat World Cup Cricket Rating with the highest aggregate of points and emerged as the Ceat World Cup Cricketer 2003. Sachin topped the Ceat World Cup Rating with a tally of 27 points, more than any other player in the tournament.

The winner will receive an award in the 8th CEAT International Cricket Rating Awards Ceremony, where leading performers in the CEAT Cricket Year of 2002-03 will be honoured and felicitated.

Sachin is currently ranked sixth in the overall Ceat Cricket Rating for 2002-03 with 81 points.

Before the final match being played at the Wanderers, Johannesburg, Sachin Tendulkar was topping the ratings with 25 points, and battled it out with Saurav Ganguly with 23 points, Adam Gilchrist with 20 points and Bret Lee with 17 points.

Sachin was in roaring form right through the tournament. His highest score was 152 against Namibia, but it was his 98 in the needle game against Pakistan that made the greatest impact. Sachin’s captain Saurav Ganguly, who in the tournament became only the second batsman to score three hundreds in a single World Cup, has bagged the second spot with 24 points. On Ganguly’s heels are two men who had the privilege of getting their hands on the trophy, Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting. Gilchrist’s quick-fire 57 and Ponting’s swashbuckling 140 gave them the joint third spot with 22 points. Four points behind them is their teammate Brett Lee, who bagged 22 wickets in the tournament.

The Ceat World Cup Rating was first implemented during the 1999 World Cup. Current Indian vice-captain Rahul Dravid had topped the rating with 461 runs and a tally of 22 points in the tournament. The top five cricketers of the last world cup were Rahul Dravid (22 points), Neil Jhonson (21), Lance Klusener (19), Saurav Ganguly (16 ) and Steve Waugh (16). This year CEAT Cricket World Cup Rating took into account performances in all 54 World Cup matches, wound up on 23rd March 2003.

The points system that governs the eight year-old Ceat Cricket Rating was applied separately to individual performances in each and every match of the ongoing quadrennial event, from the inaugural match played on 9th February to the Final.

The CEAT International Cricket Rating, now into its eighth year, comprises a Player rating and a Team rating. Performances of cricketers and cricket teams in Tests and one-day internationals from 1st May to 30th April are tracked and rated through a comprehensive & easy to understand points system. The player and team that top the rating are declared the CCR International Cricketer of the Year and the CCR International Team of the Year respectively.