Track your favourite cricket stars easily on CEAT Cricket ratings.

Mumbai, November 18, 2002 : So much of cricket being played! So many records being made and broken! Huge sponsorship deals. Larger than life image leading to a near celebrity status. So much to write about! So much to read about the most popular game in the world today.

Even for an avid cricket fan it is becoming extremely difficult to keep track of international cricket calendar and follow his favourite cricketer's performance. Thanks to the CEAT Cricket Rating, it has become much easier to follow a team or a cricketer's performance. CEAT CRICKET RATING were set up in the year 1995 and have since then tracked international cricket through a logical and easy to understand system under the guidance and supervision of three of world's biggest cricket legends, Sunil Gavaskar, Clive Lloyd and Ian Chapel.

The CEAT CRICKET RATING gives us a clear picture of a player's consistency level and has over the years become a benchmark within the cricketing fraternity in particular and fans in general to track and evaluate a player's as well as a team's level of competency and ability to remain in the reckoning.

Some interesting facts can be gathered if one compares the ratings over a period of time. As on 30 April last year South Africa was on top of the list and was the No. 1 cricket team of the year. While, the top three slots in the international cricketer category were all Sri Lankans, M Muralitharan, Marvan Atapattu and Sanath Jayasurya followed by Jacques Kallis and Sachin Tendulkar.

During this period it was Atapattu who was heading followed by Sachin as far as batting is concerned. And in the bowling category it was Murali followed closely by Courtney Walsh.

If we now follow the current status we will find even after so much of cricket certain cricketers have managed to keep their form intact and keep their positions in the top five consistently. To this one must praise wholeheartedly Murali for his fantastic performances match after match and also both Sanath and Atapattu's consistent performance. Of course one must add Sachin's name here as a player of immense consistency as he has always to be there in the top five in all the CEAT years barring 1995-96.

Also, if one closely watches the weekly rating one will find the stiff competition among Indian players. From the way things are at this juncture Virender Sehwag seems to be the man to watch from India in the near future. He is already in a short span of time sitting pretty among the top 5. As of 18th November 2002, he is at No 4. He along with Rahul Dravid at the top of the heap, Harbhajan at No. 3 and Sachin Tendulkar at the fifth slot have dominated the CEAT Cricket Ratings. Thanks to their brilliant performances India is at the top of the CEAT Team Ratings ahead of Australia.

CEAT CRICKET RATING has come a long way since 1995 and now forms a backbone in International Cricket Rating, which is keenly followed by, fans, cricketing fraternity and media.