West Indies Cricketers Slip In Ranks

Windies cricketer Shivnarine Chanderpaul

News Americas, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Tues. Aug. 12, 2014: Two West Indies cricketers have both fallen down a notch in the latest International Cricket Council Test rankings.

Former West Indies skipper and West Indies left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul has fallen down the International Cricket Council Test batting rankings.

Chanderpaul, according to the latest Reliance ICC Test batting rankings released Monday, slipped one notch to number 6. Still he remains the highest ranked West Indies batsman and the only one in the top 20.

On the bowling ranks, Windies Kemar Roach is the lone player from the Caribbean squad to make the top twenty but he too fell one slot in the ranks – from tenth to eleventh.
Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara regained the number-one Test batting spot, booting South Africa’s AB de Villiers who fell to number two.