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Saeed Anwar 4th in world rankings

By Our Sports Reporter
31 December 1998



LAHORE, Dec 30: Two Pakistani batsmen and three bowlers have been included among top 15 in the Price Waterhouse Coopers rating list of Test cricketers issued on Wednesday.

Pakistan's Test opener Saeed Anwar, with 781 points, has been rated fourth and middle-order batsman Ijaz Ahmad Senior, with 675 points, 14th in the list. Inzamam-ul-Haq, having 638 points, is rated 21st while Aamir Sohail, with 611 points, is rated 28th along with Ramparkash (England).

Sachin Tendulkar of India, with a tally of 822 points, tops the list of batsmen while Steve Waugh of Australia, with 819 points, is at No 2 spot among the batsmen of the world.

Waqar Younis of Pakistan, having a tally of 713 points, has been rated eighth among the bowlers while Wasim Akram, with 704 points, is rated 10th and Mushtaq Ahmad, having 662 points, is rated 15th. Saqlain Mushtaq, with 517 points, is rated 28th among the bowlers. br> Allan Donald of South Africa, with a tally of 885 points, tops the list of bowlers while Curtly Ambrose of the West Indies is second, having a tally of 881 points.

South Africa is rated No 1 among the Test-playing nations, having 1058 points. Sri Lanka (904 points) is rated second, New Zealand (731 points) third and Pakistan (711 points) fourth.

Ratings of the other countries are:

5. West Indies (656 points),6. India (570 points), 7. Zimbabwe (407 points), 8. Australia (395 points), 9. England (288 points).

Top 30 players are:

1. Sachin Tendulkar (Ind),2. Steve Waugh (Aus), 3. Rahul Dravid (Ind), 4. Saeed Anwar (Pak), 5. Brian Lara (WI), 6. Hansie Cronje (SA), 7. Aravinda De Silva (Sri), 8. Mark Waugh (Aus), 9. Alec Stewart (Eng), 10. S.Chanderpaul (WI), 11. Carl Hooper (WI), 12.Murry Goodwin (Zim), 13. Naseer Hussain (Eng), 14. Ijaz Ahmad (Pak), 15. Mark Taylor (Aus), 16. Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri), 17. Gary Kirsten (SA), 18. Saurav Ganguly (Ind), 19. Graham Thorpe (Eng), 20. Andy Flower (Zim), 21. Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak), 22. Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind), 23. Navjot Sidhu (Ind), 24.Michael Slater (Aus), 25. Michael Atherton (Eng), 26. Stephen Fleming (NZ), 27. Daryll Cullinan (SA), 28. Mark Ramprakash (Eng), 29. Aamir Sohail, 30. Jacques Kallis (SA).


Source: Dawn
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