Damien Martyn

Yeah these ratings on cricketworld are somewhat flawed actually. I have access to some more accurate (no offence to those who compilethe MVP for cricketworld) ratings that are kept private and they basically have the status of Test batsmen ratings as: (after the second Test between South Africa and the west Indies):

 1. Jaques Kallis
 2. Brian Lara
 3. Damien Martyn
 4. Virendher Sehwag
 5. Justin Langer
 6. Adam Gilchrist
 7. Rahul Dravid
 8. Hamish Marshall
 9. Ricky Ponting
10. Graeme Smith

I think those are somehwhat accurate and those are compiled by a ratings company that the ICC uses the service of but keeps the identity of hidden. They also have their own service provided by ProceWaterHouseCoopers (PwC which is their London Stock Exchange listing) which are usually fairly similar and in tandom with the ratings provided by ______________ ______.

I would agree that Damien has been in the form of his life but you do also have to understand that these things are incredibly difficult to compile and i myself have a formulatic equation of my own that i use to compile my own ratings and it is very complicated and perplex to understand and to be honest of all the ratings systems i think it may well be the most accurate of the lot. My system has already incidently already provided the latest ratings which have already accounted for the entire South Africa - West Indies series and funnily enough even though you may say that you can't prophesise what has already taken place in the series and can't include it and so on it is actually a much more accurate system on the whole.