Australian seamer Mitchell Starc gained 147 ratings points during the course of the tournament to reach an overall 783 rating points.

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Australian pacer Mitchell Starc has surged to the top of the One-Day International (ODI) bowlers’ rankings for the first time in his career following a stellar performance in the World Cup that saw him named the Player of the Tournament.
Starc jumped two places to take the top spot. He gained 147 ratings points during the course of the tournament to reach an overall 783 rating points. South African leg spinner Imran Tahir occupied the second spot after moving three slots with 7334 ratings points.
New Zealand pacer Trent Boult who was the joint highest wicket taker in the World Cup alongside Star with 22 scalps, moved up nine places to jump to a career-high sixth position. He shares the position with with Australia’s left-arm apeedster Mitchell Johnson, who has also moved up by two places.
In the ODI batsmen rankings, South Africa skipper AB de Villiers, who continued to lead the batting rankings, has become the 11th batsman overall, and second South African after Hashim Amla, to break the 900 ratings point mark. De Villiers achieved the milestone during the semi-final against New Zealand when he scored 65 not out.
He is now eighth on the list behind Vivian Richards (935), Zaheer Abbas (931), Greg Chappell (921), David Gower (919), Dean Jones (918), Javed Miandad (910), Brian Lara (908) and Desmond Haynes (900) to boast of 900 ratings points in the rankings. Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan has retained the top spot in the all-rounders’ rankings, followed by Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh. South African Jean Paul Duminy moved up four places to the ninth spot.

Father Time at LORd’s flattened by furious winds
The iconic Father Time, the ancient weather vane at the Lord’s Cricket Ground – a symbol of the English game – took a beating on Monday after some seriously turbulent weather hit London.
The vane, propped atop Lord’s Mount Stand clock, is a steel figure of an elderly man with a scythe on his back putting a bail on a set of stumps, and is one of the symbols Lord’s, as well as English cricket, is synonymous with.
Once the gales blew over, Father Time was found lying flat on its back and sparked concern among staff of the Marylebone Cricket Club, which owns Lord’s.
Father Time, donated by Sir Herbert Baker, an architect, in 1926, has had a bad time in the past, once when it was struck by lightning in 1992 and, worse, when it was knocked off its perch when hit by a barrage balloon during the Blitz in World War II. It was stored away in a cellar for the rest of the War.
Now, of course, with times having changed, Father Time tweeted from the Lord’s official account and gave updates of the goings on: “NEWS: I’ve was felled by high winds last night! Ouch!”


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