Draw means India will have to wait to overtake England in LG ICC Test Championship table

India's failure to take the last West Indies wicket in the first Test in Antigua means it cannot now overtake England and move into second place in the LG ICC Test Championship table - at least for the time being.

A clean sweep of the four-match series would have taken India to 112 rating points, the same mark as England, but Rahul Dravid's side would have moved into second spot when the ratings were re-calculated to three decimal places.

However, the inability to break up the West Indies' last wicket pairing of Fidel Edwards and Corey Collymore on Tuesday evening means that, even if India wins the remaining matches of the series to secure a 3-0 success, it cannot improve on its current rating of 111 points.

That is because the LG ICC Test Championship table rewards sides for success against opponents that are highly-rated by comparison. The more highly-rated the opposition is in comparison, the more rating points a side is likely to gain through a series win.

In other words, success for India against table-topping Australia would gain many more rating points than success against the West Indies, currently eighth in the table, 39 points behind India.

The star-turn for India in Antigua was Wasim Jaffer, whose second innings 212 has helped propel him up 29 places in the LG ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen. Opener Jaffer now lies in 55th spot with a career-best tally of rating points.

Elsewhere the news for India's batsmen is not quite so good. Dravid has dropped down two places to fourth position, as has Virender Sehwag, who now finds himself 14th.

Below them are the injured Sachin Tendulkar, unchanged in 17th, and V.V.S.Laxman, down one spot to 27th.

Anil Kumble remains India's highest-placed bowler in the listings, in eighth position, while Irfan Pathan and Harbhajan Singh, who both missed out on places in the final eleven in the first Test, are 12th and 23rd respectively.

The news is mixed for the West Indies. Brian Lara's twin failures in Antigua have seen him slip three places to ninth in the batting list and he is now at his lowest ranking and rating since March 2001, in the wake of a losing series in Australia.

However, Corey Collymore has moved up seven places in the bowling rankings and is now 17th, his highest-ever placing, with a career-best tally of rating points.

Lara and Collymore are the only West Indies players in the top 20 batting and bowling lists respectively with, among batsmen, Chris Gayle 22nd, Shivnarine Chanderpaul 23rd and Ramnaresh Sarwan 30th.

Dwayne Bravo has moved into the top 40 batsmen for the first time, up eight places to 38th spot, and he is also 46th among the bowlers.

The England - Sri Lanka Test series finished with a 134-run win for the visitors at Trent Bridge on Monday and Muttiah Muralidaran, whose 8-70 (11-132 in the match) sealed that success, has unsurprisingly maintained his hold on top spot in the LG ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers.

The spinner, who took 24 wickets in the three-match series that ended level at 1-1, is now at his best mark of rating points for 13 months and is within touching distance of his career-best rating of 915 points, achieved in 2002.

Muralidaran is one of two Sri Lanka bowlers in the top ten bowling places with Chaminda Vaas holding firm in tenth spot. Vaas is also 78th in the batting list, with his best-ever rating and, in sixth place in the LG ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders, he is also close to a spot in that top five.

Sri Lanka has two players in the batting top 20, with Kumar Sangakkara in 12th spot while Mahela Jayawardene is 20th.

The series result has cost Andrew Flintoff's side one rating point, dropping it from 113 to 112 points in the LG ICC Test Championship table, now 19 points behind leaders Australia, while Sri Lanka has gained two points and a place.

Jayawardene's side has moved to 97 rating points and, when the table is re-calculated to three decimal places, that is enough to move it above New Zealand and into sixth spot.

Andrew Flintoff's modest series with the bat - he made 47 runs in five innings - has seen him lose his place as the top Test all-rounder in the LG ICC Player Rankings. That list is now headed by South Africa's Jacques Kallis.

Flintoff has dropped two places in the listings for Test batsman, and now sits in 25th spot. Ahead of him, for England, are Kevin Pietersen (10th), Marcus Trecosthick (11th) and Andrew Strauss (15th).

Matthew Hoggard, England's leading wicket-taker in the series with 15 victims, remains its leading bowler in the LG ICC Player Rankings, in fifth place, while Flintoff holds steady in sixth spot.

The batting list is headed by Australia captain Ricky Ponting, with just two rating points separating Kallis, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Dravid in second, third and fourth spots respectively.

Muralidaran is clear of South Africa's Makhaya Ntini and Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath of Australia in the bowling table.

Full details of the current LG ICC Test Championship and how future results will impact on the table, as well as the LG ICC Player Rankings can be found here