Glenn McGrath's ten wickets in the first Test against the West Indies lifted him two places to second in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Test Ratings, and just 33 points short of Allan Donald. Fellow Australian Michael Slater also improved his Rating, up eight places to ninth, his highest Rating for three years.

Of the team that lost in Trinidad, only Brian Lara remains in the top 40 of the batting, and Ambrose and Walsh are the only two in the top 60 of the bowling. This contrasts with, for example, early 1986 when the West Indies had five batsmen and three bowlers in the top ten (Richards, Haynes, Greenidge, Richardson, Gomes, plus Marshall, Garner and Holding).

PricewaterhouseCoopers Test Ratings
10th March 1999

Rank	Player	Country	 Points		Career	Highest rating of career (showing
					Average	points player had after match)
1	Steve Waugh	Aus	848	49.84	909 v WI at Melbourne 1996	
2	Sachin Tendulkar Ind	811	54.49	870 v Pak at Madras 1999	
3	Saeed Anwar	Pak	798	45.86	835 v Ind at Calcutta 1999	
4	Rahul Dravid	Ind	796	54.43	862 v NZ at Hamilton 1999	
5	Brian Lara	WI	788	49.25	898 v Eng at The Oval 1995	
6	Alec Stewart	Eng	768	41.15	783 v SA at Trent Bridge 1998	
7	Mark Waugh	Aus	754	43.51	803 v SA at Port Elizabeth 1997	
8	Nasser Hussain	Eng	723	37.53	723 v Aus at Sydney 1999	
9	Michael Slater	Aus	718	46.12	768 v Sri at Melbourne 1995
10	Aravinda de Silva Sri	714	42.93	764 v SA at Cape Town 1998
11=	Daryll Cullinan	SA	684	41.63	736 v Ind at Johannesburg 1997
     	Murray Goodwin	Zim	684	53.60	698 v Pak at Peshawar 1998
13	Hansie Cronje	SA	681	38.12	752 v Eng at Trent Bridge 1998
14	Saurav Ganguly	Ind	675	49.68	706 v Pak at Delhi 1999
15	S.Chanderpaul	WI	668	42.05	746 v Ind at Georgetown 1997
16=	Gary Kirsten	SA	665	39.98	766 v Ind at Calcutta 1996
     	Jacques Kallis	SA	665	36.05	687 v WI at Centurion 1999
18	Andy Flower	Zim	650	43.54	650 v Pak at Lahore 1998
19	Sanath Jayasuriya Sri	649	45.82	750 v Ind at Colombo 1997
20=	Carl Hooper	WI	638	34.14	705 v SA at Johannesburg 1998
     	Graham Thorpe	Eng	638	40.13	803 v WI at Kingston 1998
22=	M.Azharuddin	Ind	633	44.88	723 v Eng at The Oval 1990
     	Craig McMillan	NZ	633	48.94	633 v SA at Auckland 1999
24	Mark Ramprakash	Eng	615	28.10	633 v Aus at Melbourne 1998
25	Mark Taylor	Aus	607	43.49	793 v Ind at Brisbane 1991	
26	S.Ramesh	Ind	600	62.00	600 v Sri at Colombo 1999	
27	Jonty Rhodes	SA	598	35.18	599 v WI at Centurion 1999	
28	Ijaz Ahmed, sen.Pak	589	37.52	695 v Eng at The Oval 1996	
29=	Michael Atherton Eng	587	38.50	771 v SA at Johannesburg 1995
        Aamir Sohail	Pak	587	36.53	696 v WI at Karachi 1997

Rank		Player	Country	Points	Career	Highest rating of career (showing
					Average	points player had after match)
1	Allan Donald	SA	888	21.7	890 v WI at Centurion 1999
2	Glenn McGrath	Aus	855	22.7	883 v WI at Adelaide 1997
3	Curtly Ambrose	WI	846	21.13	915 v Eng at Port of Spain 1994
4	Shaun Pollock	SA	818	22.37	838 v WI at Cape Town 1999
5	Simon Doull	NZ	780	26.45	795 v Ind at Hamilton 1999
6	M.Muralitharan	Sri	771	26.9	787 v Eng at The Oval 1998
7	Anil Kumble	Ind	761	27.83	859 v Sri at Bangalore 1994
8	Stuart MacGill	Aus	760	21.3	760 v WI at Port of Spain 1999
9	Wasim Akram	Pak	737	22.78	828 v Aus at Karachi I 1994
10	Angus Fraser	Eng	721	27.32	794 v SA at Headingley 1998
11	Courtney Walsh	WI	711	25.27	803 v Eng at Edgbaston 1995
12	Javagal Srinath	Ind	696	29.95	703 v Pak at Calcutta 1999
13	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pak	693	29.52	693 v Sri at Lahore 1999
14	Waqar Younis	Pak	678	21.96	912 v Zim at Rawalpindi 1993
15	Heath Streak	Zim	671	24.83	752 v Sri at Colombo 1996
16	Shane Warne	Aus	656	25.08	907 v Eng at Melbourne 1994
17	Darren Gough	Eng	641	28.62	693 v SA at Headingley 1998
18	Jason Gillespie	Aus	636	20.37	701 v Eng at Headingley 1997
19	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pak	633	29.22	819 v NZ at Rawalpindi 1996
20	Dean Headley	Eng	627	26.46	627 v Aus at Sydney 1999
21	Paul Reiffel	Aus	602	26.96	722 v WI at Brisbane 1996
22	Ian Bishop	WI	582	24.27	850 v Eng at Edgbaston 1995
23	Pommie Mbangwa	Zim	546	24.58	605 v Pak at Peshawar 1998
24=	Chris Cairns	NZ	543	32.73	549 v Sri at Colombo 1998
     	Jacques Kallis	SA	543	28.76	589 v WI at Centurion 1999
26	Franklyn Rose	WI	525	25.08	541 v SA at Durban 1998
27	Venkatapathy Raju Ind	517	29.79	690 v WI at Chandigarh 1994
28	Dominic Cork	Eng	509	31.81	680 v SA at Johannesburg 1995
29	Dion Nash	NZ	507	28.84	560 v Ind at Wellington 1998
30	Damien Fleming	Aus	494	27.21	562 v Eng at Adelaide 1998