Inzamam charges up LG ICC Player Rankings after Faisalabad double

Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has charged up five spots to third place in the LG ICC Player Rankings after his superb twin hundreds in the Faisalabad Test match against England.

Inzamam, who is only the fifth Pakistan player to score two hundreds in the same Test and is also now his country's leading centurion - he has 24 Test hundreds to Javed Miandad's 23 - stands at a career-best 853 points and only South Africa's Jacques Kallis and Australia captain Ricky Ponting are ahead of him.

The Faisalabad Test's other hundred-makers, England's Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell, have also made upward movements in the LG ICC Player Rankings.

Both players recorded their second Test hundreds during the match and both now stand at career-best points totals. Pietersen has moved up nine places to 24th spot while Bell's jump is up eight places to 50th position.

England's top-order struggles during the Test are reflected in the fact Marcus Trescothick (eighth), Andrew Strauss (17th) and captain Michael Vaughan (32nd) have all slipped down the batting list but Geraint Jones has moved up six places to joint 51st and his best-ever points total.

Pakistan's Shahid Afridi, banned for the next Test in Lahore as well as the first two ODIs that follow it, is another player heading in the right direction in the batting rankings and is now 45th, up seven places and at his best-ever points tally.

Another batsman moving up the rankings at a healthy rate is the West Indies' all-rounder Dwayne Bravo. His Test hundred against Australia in Hobart, his second at the highest level, moves him up 20 places to 59th spot and his best-ever points total.

Bravo's partner during a seventh wicket stand of 182 in Hobart, Dinesh Ramdin, moves up 15 places to 68th after his Test-best score of 71 and is another player with a career-best points tally.

Mathew Hayden's fourth hundred in successive Tests continues his move back up the rankings after a fallow period and he now lies in sixth spot, the second Australia player after Ponting among the top ten batsmen.

England's Mathew Hoggard has slipped out of the top ten list for bowlers but Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has moved up one place to seventh and Mohammad Sami (41st) and Afridi (43rd) both have their best-ever points tallies.

Further down the list, Naved-ul-Hasan has moved up 26 places to 71st after his five top-order wickets in Faisalabad.

Glenn McGrath's impressive effort with the ball in Hobart - he took 6-60 in 48 overs with five of his wickets being top-order players - sees him return to the number one spot in the bowling list while his team mate Shane Warne slips from that position to third, behind McGrath and Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralidaran.

Leg-spinner Stuart MacGill has nudged into the top 20 while Corey Collymore is the West Indies' highest-placed bowler in the rankings, at 22nd place with a career-best points tally.