{"id":10065,"date":"2012-01-08T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2012-01-08T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T19:07:13","slug":"clarke-moves-up-tendulkar-dravid-and-laxman-slip-in-icc-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/clarke-moves-up-tendulkar-dravid-and-laxman-slip-in-icc-rankings-10065\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke moves up; Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman slip in ICC rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"img-caption-wrap img-caption-wrap-left \"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/st3.cricketcountry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cricket\/615f8c42ce251c2414be1c254fb5a5be.jpeg\" title=\"Clarke moves up; Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman slip in ICC rankings\" alt=\"Clarke moves up; Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman slip in ICC rankings\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgcaption\"> Michael Clarke in action during his knock of 329 not out during the second Test at Sydney \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By CricketCountry Staff <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dubai: Jan 8, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia captain Michael Clarke moved up 12 spots to the eighth  position in the latest rankings released for batsmen by the  International  Cricket Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s batting star Sachin Tendulkar has dropped two places to sixth position and Rahul Dravid has fallen four spots to 15th position.\u00a0VVS Laxman has dropped one place to 18th spot and Virender Sehwag has fallen out of the top 20, in 22nd position, after conceding four places.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clarke\u2019s huge leap to the eighth spot is because of his unbeaten knock of 329 against India in the second Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Michael Hussey, who scored a fine 150 in the same Test match, moved up to the 12<sup>th<\/sup> spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>South African middle-order batsmen Jacques Kallis moved from the fourth spot to the second after his innings of 224 against Sri Lanka at Cape Town, which helped his side to win the third Test and series.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s Alastair Cook and Ian Bell remained at the second and third spot respectively, <em>Sportal<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara remained at the top spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By CricketCountry Staff <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia captain Michael Clarke moved up 12 spots to the eighth position in the latest rankings released for batsmen by the International  Cricket Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[155,129,428,131,3283,871,437,301,158,922],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clarke moves up; 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