Sachin Tendulkar and Jacques Kallis - who were the respective batting stars for their teams in the recently concluded India-South Africa Tests - now jointly hold the top position in the list of Test batsmen after their superb show in the top of the table clash.
Tendulkar, who scored 146 and 14 not out in the final Test at Cape Town gained one place, while Kallis was rewarded with a jump of four places for his brilliant efforts of 161 and 109 not out. Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara dropped two places to be third in the rankings.
Tendulkar and Kallis now sit on 883 ratings points, just one ahead of Sangakkara.
Tendulkar, who won the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year Award 2010 at the LG ICC Awards in Bengaluru in October last year, last claimed the number-one spot on 14 October 2010 after his magnificent 214 and 53 not out against Australia also in Bengaluru.
It is the 10th time that Tendulkar has claimed the No. 1 ranking which he first achieved in his 33rd Test in November 1994 against the West Indies in Mumbai.
Kallis last surged to the top of the batting table in October 2005 after the Sydney Test against Australia while he first topped the chart after the Newlands Test against England in January 2005. He earned 77 ratings points from the series against India in which he scored 498 runs.
Also charging up the batting table are left-handed openers Alastair Cook of England and Gautam Gambhir of India. Cook, who scored a match-winning 189 in Sydney, has vaulted eight places to fifth spot. Cook had entered the Ashes in 30th position on 628 ratings point and ended the series with a career-best rating of 803 - thanks to his series aggregate of 766 runs which earned him the man of the series award.
Gambhir has broken into the top 20 and he now sits in 15th position after his scores of 93 and 64 have helped him jump seven places in the latest rankings which were released on Friday.
The bowlers rankings continued to be led by South Africa's Dale Steyn, who had 899 points after the India series. Bowlers making upward movements included James Anderson in third (up by one place), Ishant Sharma in 15th (up by one place), S.Sreesanth in 22nd (up by four places), Ben Hilfenhaus in 24th (up by two places), Shane Watson in 32nd (up by one place) and Tim Bresnan in 36th (up by five places). Among Indians, Zaheer Khan was fifth, while Harbhajan Singh was on the 8th spot.
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