Watson becomes top-ranked ODI all-rounder

Shane Watson

Australia’s Shane Watson has become the top-ranked ODI all-rounder and has also achieved a career-best ranking to date in the Reliance ICC ODI Rankings which were released on Thursday at the end of Bangladesh and Australia series which finished on Wednesday.

Watson pipped Shakib Al Hasan into the number-one position in the all-rounders’ rankings after taking three wickets and scoring 294 runs in the series. He now leads the Bangladesh captain by a comfortable 44 points margin.

Watson’s scores of 37, 185 not out and 72 in