Australian captain Ricky Ponting and teammate Adam Gilchrist on Thursday joined a select club of batsmen while Bangladesh's Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Rafique and Shahriar Nafees made huge leaps in ICC Player Rankings after the memorable first Test in Fatullah.
Ponting and Gilchrist, whose centuries saw world champions Australia overcome a 158-run first innings deficit and win the match, joined the list of players who have scored hundreds against all of their nine rival Test nations.
The list includes Stephen Waugh, Rahul Dravid, Gary Kirsten, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Marvan Atapattu.
Ponting's 118 not out also ensured he remained well clear of South Africa's Jacques Kallis at the top of the batting list and he is now just one rating point short of his best-ever mark, set after twin hundreds against South Africa in Durban last month.
For Gilchrist, who passed 5000 Test runs during his first innings 144, there is the satisfaction of moving back into the top 20 after scoring his first century at the highest level since March 2005 in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Left-arm spinner Mohammad Rafique, whose nine wickets in the match came so close to earning his side victory, is now 26th in the bowling list, up 10 places, and he is comfortably the highest-ranked Bangladesh bowler.
Captain Habibul Bashar, who made 76 in the first innings of the Test, is up two places to 29th in the batting table and, like Rafique, is his country's highest-placed player, while Shahriar Nafees' maiden hundred has propelled him up 45 places to 59th position.
Shane Warne's relatively modest return in the Test - three wickets - has seen him slip to fourth place in the Test bowlers' chart, with Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, Makhaya Ntini of South Africa and team-mate Glenn McGrath now ahead of him.
