Tendulkar returns to top 10 of ICC Rankings

Riding on his fantastic performance in the tri-series in Sri Lanka, veteran Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday returned to the top-10 of ICC one-day rankings, rising five places to seventh.

For the first time in 10 months, Tendulkar is among the world's top 10 after scoring his 44th one-day century for India, earning his team a 46-run victory over Sri Lanka in the final of the tri-series in Colombo on Monday.

Tendulkar scored 138 to lay the foundation of India's winning total of 320. Tendulkar, also the leading run-scorer in the series with 211 runs, had slipped out of the top-10 after the home series against England in November 2008 and had rested for the first three ODIs of the five-match series which India won 5-0.

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni leads the batting table from his vice-captain Yuvraj Singh who has achieved his career-best second place in the rankings for ODI all-rounders.

Yuvraj leapfrogged Jacques Kallis of South Africa, Jacob Oram of New Zealand and Andrew Flintoff of England into second place after scoring 80 runs with the bat and taking four wickets with the ball.

India openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir have dropped two places each after both missed the series due to injuries. A player loses one per cent of his rating for every match he misses.

In the rankings for ODI bowlers, New Zealand's Kyle Mills has dropped two places to fourth and this has allowed Daniel Vettori and Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh to move up the order.

New Zealand's Shane Bond has returned to the rankings in eighth position after he was removed earlier this year in 14th place as he had not played an ODI since before the qualification date for the rankings.

Thilan Thushara, Ishant Sharma and Lasith Malinga have moved upwards, jumping six places each to 24th, 33rd and 42nd positions respectively.