Zaheer's a top ten hit in LG ICC Player Rankings

India's Zaheer Khan has risen to a career-high 10th position in the LG ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers after his man of the series performance against England.

The left-arm swing and seam bowler, whose 18 wickets in the series was the mainstay of India's first series win in England in 21 years, has climbed two places in the latest table.

Zaheer eclipses his previous highest ranking of 11th, reached in 2003, and becomes the second Indian bowler alongside Anil Kumble in the top 10. Kumble maintains his seventh place but his maiden century in his 118th Test puts him back in the top 10 all-rounders.

Kumble charges up six places to eighth in the all-rounders' list - his highest listing since 2002. He also jumps up eight places to 88th in the batting table and is just short of his best-ever rating, achieved in 1997.

There is more good news for India as wicketkeeper/batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni, opener Dinesh Karthik and fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth have all achieved career-best rankings.

Dhoni, who scored 209 runs in the series, rises to 43rd place while Karthik, with 263 runs in the series, climbs to 53rd. Sreesanth, who took nine wickets, now lies 25th in the bowling list.

However, it is not all good news for India which now has no batsman is the top 10 for the first time since 1993. It has happened now as captain Rahul Dravid, who had a disappointing series by his standards when he contributed just 126 runs, has dropped two places to 11th in LG ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen.

Sachin Tendulkar has fallen one place to 18th but Saurav Ganguly's series aggregate of 249 runs at 49.80 helps him gain one more place at 29th, the first time he has occupied such a lofty perch in the last six years.

For England, the biggest disappointment in the latest listings is left-arm spinner Monty Panesar, who drops nine places to 15th in the LG ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers after managing just two wickets in the drawn Test at The Brit Oval.

Panesar's slip means Matthew Hoggard is the only England bowler in the top 10. Hoggard, who missed the Test series because of a back problem, is eighth while Andrew Flintoff, who was unavailable for the series because of ankle surgery, is 14th.

England's only consolation in the LG ICC Player Rankings is the rise of opener Alistair Cook who lifts three places to 17th while Andrew Strauss slides one place to 22nd and captain Michael Vaughan drops four places to 28th.

The bowling list is still headed by Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralidaran, now on the brink of eclipsing Shane Warne's record for most Test wickets, with Makhaya Ntini of South Africa a distant second.

Among the batsmen, the top three of Australia's Ricky Ponting, Mohammad Yousuf of Pakistan and Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara remains unchanged with Kevin Pietersen of England remaining fourth after his tenth Test hundred helped secure a draw for his side on Monday.

South Africa's Jacques Kallis still heads the LG ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders, clear of Flintoff.

India's 1-0 series win means it jumps up two places to third in the LG ICC Test Championship table. It leap-frogs South Africa and Sri Lanka but stands above Sri Lanka when the ratings are recalculated to three decimal places.