Indian captain MS Dhoni has over took South African captain Greame Smith to recoup the top spot in the most recent ICC ODI batsmen position. Dhoni unswerving performance leads him to the top position includes 71 and 76 runs in the previous two on going ODI series matches against Sri Lanka. ODI ranking of Dhoni has scored 803 points in his belt, which is 27 points higher than Smith who is in second position. Last time Dhoni had occupied the number one place in 2006.

Australia skipper Ricky Ponting is in the third position scoring 751 points pursue by his team mate Michael Hussey followed by England captain Kevin Pietersen. The master blaster of Indian team Sachin Tendulkar is positioned in ninth while another Indian out performer Yuvraj Singh manages to place in 18th rank. At the mean time, Indian fast bowler Zaheer Khan makes a come back performance in current ODI series of India and Srilanka, he is the only Indian bowler to get positioned in the top 20 ODI bowlers chart, placed in 14th  spot and manages to get 642 rating points.

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