Vaughan drops down two places in Test rankings

Right now, Michael Vaughan is probably more concerned with establishing himself as England's one-day international captain, but it is his Test status that has taken a dip after he slid two places in the batting rankings.

Vaughan was briefly top of the list after a prosperous 2002, in which he was the leading Test scorer with 1,481 runs. But after scores of 8 and 20 in England's two recent Tests against Zimbabwe, he has dropped from second to fourth.

Speaking to BBC Sport, he said: "There are stages in your career when you don't score as many runs as you'd like and I'm working my hardest to try and get myself those big scores - I'm sure something will just click and then I'll be away and those big scores will arrive."

"I'm not too worried about it because my form in the nets and in practice seems to be there."

1 Matthew Hayden (Aus)859 pts
2 Ricky Ponting (Aus) 849
3 Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) 843
4 Michael Vaughan (Eng) 839
5 Brian Lara (WI) 830
6 Jacques Kallis (SA) 820
7 Adam Gilchrist (Aus) 814
8 Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) 793
9 Rahul Dravid (Ind) 789
10 Herschelle Gibbs (SA) 778

1 Shaun Pollock (SA) 873
2 Glenn McGrath (Aus) 861
3 Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) 856
4 Harbhajan Singh (Ind) 746
5 Jason Gillespie (Aus) 723
6 Andrew Caddick (Eng) 705
7 Makhaya Ntini (SA) 692
8 Shoaib Akhtar (Pak) 691
9 Anil Kumble (Ind) 688
10 Jacques Kallis (SA) 682