Pollock tops ODI Rankings 06 Mar 2006 By: James Nixon

Shaun Pollock leads the bowler and all-rounder categories in the latest ODI rankings released by the ICC.

Following Pollock's good start to the current ODI series against South Africa, he holds off Glenn McGrath in the bowling rankings and Andrew Flintoff in the all-rounders category.

Ricky Ponting leads the batsmen rankings, with Graeme Smith surging up the rankings to third position after his century in the 1st ODI against Australia.

Following New Zealand's comfortable series victory over the West Indies, this has seen Shane Bond move to fourth position and Daniel Vettori fifth position on the bowlers rankings.

Top 10 Batsmen

1 Ricky Ponting
2 Adam Gilchrist
3 Graeme Smith
4 Kumar Sangakkara
4 Mahendra Dhoni
6 Andrew Symonds
7 Mike Hussey
8 Michael Clarke
9 Yuvraj Singh
10 Rahul Dravid

Top 10 Bowlers

1 Shaun Pollock
2 Glenn McGrath
3 Brett Lee
4 Shane Bond
5 Daniel Vettori
6 Irfan Pathan
7 Muttiah Muralitharan
8 Makhaya Ntini
9 Chaminda Vaas
10 Naved-ul-Hasan

Top All-Rounders

1 Shaun Pollock
2 Andrew Flintoff
3 Andrew Symonds
4 Irfan Pathan
5 Shoaib Malik