Lee and Steyn among top five Test bowlers

Dale Steyn and Brett Lee, who won the Man-of-the-Series awards in the recent clean sweeps for South Africa and Australia, have broken into the top five in the ICC player rankings for Test bowlers.

Steyn dismantled the New Zealand batsmen with 20 wickets in two Tests, and has skyrocketed to third place in the list - he was ranked 28th before the start of the series. Lee is two places behind him in fifth, having finished with 16 wickets in the two Tests Australia played against Sri Lanka.

Steyn's team-mate Jacques Kallis is now one point away from Lee's compatriot Ricky Ponting at the top of the list for Test batsmen. Kallis followed up his three hundreds in four innings against Pakistan with two more in three innings against New Zealand.

The other mover in the top ten Test batsmen is Kumar Sangakkara, who jumped to third place - ahead of Mohammad Yousuf - on the back of his 57 and 192 in the second Test against Australia.

LG ICC Player Rankings
Rank	Name	Country	Rating
1	M. Muralitharan	SL	904

2 M. Ntini SA 808 3 D.W. Steyn SA 775

4 S.R. Clark AUS 769 5 B. Lee AUS 726

6 S.E. Bond NZ 724 7 A. Kumble IND 702

8 S.M. Pollock SA 701 9 M.J. Hoggard ENG 700

10 Shoaib Akhtar PAK 684  Top 100

LG ICC Player Rankings
Rank	Name	Country	Rating
1	R.T. Ponting	AUS	936

2 J.H. Kallis SA 935 3 K.C. Sangakkara SL 919

4 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 908 5 M.E.K. Hussey AUS

874 6 K.P. Pietersen ENG 872 7 Younis Khan

PAK 828 8 M.L. Hayden AUS 803 9 S. Chanderpaul

WI 762 10 M.J. Clarke AUS 751  Top 100