Gilchrist moves into cricket's top 10 for first time

LONDON - Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist has moved into the world's top 10 Test batsmen for the first time in the latest cricket rankings released today.

Gilchrist, the stand-in Australian captain while Steve Waugh was injured, moved up two places in the Test batting rankings to No.10 behind West Indies star Brian Lara in the only change in the top 10 from the last list, compiled by accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Gilchrist also retained his No.9 ranking in one-day batting to be one of only two Australians to make the top 10 batsmen lists in both forms of the game.

The other is Ricky Ponting, who jumped four places in the one-day ratings to be equal fourth with South African Jacques Kallis and was unchanged at fifth in the Test ratings.

But Michael Bevan lost his No.1 rating in the one-day batting lists to India's Sourav Ganguly, with New Zealander Michael Twose in third place.

The one-day ratings do not include the Tri-Nations Series games played in Australia this week.

Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath kept the No.2 rating in both bowling lists, behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan in the one-day and South African Shaun Pollock in the Test ratings.

Fellow paceman Brett Lee was unchanged at sixth in the Test ratings but slipped one spot to 28 in the one-day list, behind brother Shane Lee who rose two spots to tie for 26th with Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar.

Spin bowler Shane Warne, returning from injury, rose one spot to fifth in the one-day list but was unchanged at No.20 in the Test list.

In the batting, India's Sachin Tendulkar kept the No.1 Test rating, followed by Waugh, Zimbabwe's Andy Flower and Pakistani Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Saeed Anwar from Pakistan was sixth and England's Michael Atherton tied with Indian Rahul Dravid for seventh.