Lee and Steyn among top five Test bowlers

Dale Steyn and Brett Lee, who won the Man-of-the-Series awards in the recent clean sweeps for South Africa and Australia, have broken into the top five in the ICC player rankings for Test bowlers.

Steyn dismantled the New Zealand batsmen with 20 wickets in two Tests, and has skyrocketed to third place in the list - he was ranked 28th before the start of the series. Lee is two places behind him in fifth, having finished with 16 wickets in the two Tests Australia played against Sri Lanka.

Steyn's team-mate Jacques Kallis is now one point away from Lee's compatriot Ricky Ponting at the top of the list for Test batsmen. Kallis followed up his three hundreds in four innings against Pakistan with two more in three innings against New Zealand.

The other mover in the top ten Test batsmen is Kumar Sangakkara, who jumped to third place - ahead of Mohammad Yousuf - on the back of his 57 and 192 in the second Test against Australia.

LG ICC Player Rankings
Rank	Name	Country	Rating
1	M. Muralitharan	SL	904
2	M. Ntini	SA	808
3	D.W. Steyn	SA	775
4	S.R. Clark	AUS	769
5	B. Lee	AUS	726
6	S.E. Bond	NZ	724
7	A. Kumble	IND	702
8	S.M. Pollock	SA	701
9	M.J. Hoggard	ENG	700
10	Shoaib Akhtar	PAK	684
	Top 100

LG ICC Player Rankings
Rank	Name	Country	Rating
1	R.T. Ponting	AUS	936
2	J.H. Kallis	SA	935
3	K.C. Sangakkara	SL	919
4	Mohammad Yousuf	PAK	908
5	M.E.K. Hussey	AUS	874
6	K.P. Pietersen	ENG	872
7	Younis Khan	PAK	828
8	M.L. Hayden	AUS	803
9	S. Chanderpaul	WI	762
10	M.J. Clarke	AUS	751
	Top 100