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Dhoni in third place

Dubai: Indian wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni jumped one spot to occupy the third place in the LG ICC ODI player rankings. Dhoni, who blazed a 20-ball 40 against West Indies in Vadodara, has 762 points and has Mike Hussey (848) and Kevin Pietersen (778) above him in the latest points table.

Dhoni's rise came at the expense of Australian skipper Ricky Ponting who dropped one spot to be at fourth place.

There are three other Indian batsmen in the top-20 list — Rahul Dravid at 12th, Sachin Tendulkar at 18th while Yuvraj Singh occupies 20th spot.

In the bowling department, Harbhajan is at 13th followed by Agarkar at 17th and Pathan at the 20th position. Shaun Pollock continued his domination at the top of bowlers list. McGrath and Vettori maintained their second and third position respectively. Brett Lee and Makhaya Nitini follows them at fourth and fifth places.

Pollock also held his top spot in the all-rounders list while Chris Gayle was in the second spot. Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka gained one spot to be at third place in the list, at the expense of England's Andrew Flintoff. Symonds maintaned his fifth spot. India, with 108 points, finds itself in the sixth spot behind New Zealand (110) and Sri Lanka (109). Australia leads the list with 133 points. South Africa is second(126) and Pakistan 3rd (112). — PTI

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