With a stunning victory of 6 wickets over Newzland in the Tri-nation series in Srilanka India is now at the top of the ICC ranking for the first time in history since ICC started the ranking on October 2002.
Yesterday winning the toss Kiwis captain Vettori selected batting as we all expected.But in return Indian seemers bowled well keeping the line and length well enough and restricted the Newzland batting at 155 in 46.1 overs.After that Indian batsmen performed with the bat also without showing any trouble batting under the lights.Sachin Tendulkar leaded from the front and was awardrd the "Most Stylish Batsman" of the match.Rahul Dravid also gave him a huge supportto him.After both these batsmen went through captain Dhoni and Raina did the rest and bring the indian team to the top of the Everest.
Inorder to keep this position at the top India has to win the other two matches in which one will be played today against the host Srilanka and also the final with Srilanka on Monday.If one game is lost India will come back to second position again and if both the matches are lost then India will go down to three behind Australia and South Africa.
