Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne helped Australia regain their dominance in the ICC Test Rankings, as the bowlers occupied the top two slots in the bowling rankings after the Super Test against World XI.
Australia outclassed the rest of the world players, with a crushing 210-run victory at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday.
Both players move up a slot from their previous ranking, with McGrath taking over top position. Warne, with 874 points is placed second.
McGrath and Warne leapfrog Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, who slips to third spot despite taking five wickets for the ICC World XI in the Sydney Test match, and that trio are well clear of the rest.
Fourth in the bowling list is Andrew Flintoff. Though he finished on the losing side in Sydney, his seven wickets for the World XI have lifted him to his highest-ever points total.
That, in turn, lifts him ahead of Jacques Kallis in the table for Test all-rounders and he is now the top ranked all-rounder in both forms of the game with those rankings calculated by multiplying batting and bowling points together.
Captain Ricky Ponting moves up three places to joint second in the batting list, level with Brian Lara of the West Indies and just behind South Africa's Kallis.
And Matthew Hayden moves back into the top ten to six, up ten places, after his man-of-the- match performance in Sydney which included his second Test hundred in successive matches.
Just outside the top ten batsmen, Adam Gilchrist's first innings of 94 helps him move back up the rankings after a subdued Ashes series and he now sits at number 11 following a rise of three spots.
The biggest mover in the bowling rankings has happened outside the top ten with leg-spinner Stuart MacGill rising ten places to number 20 on the list.
MacGill, playing only his second Test of the year, both of them in Sydney, took nine wickets against the ICC World XI.
