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.

the thing with Australian selectors is once you're dropped its probably unlikely you're going to get back into the team. The careers of Jason Gillespie and Martyn are all but over - look at Michael Bevan for example who dominated domestic cricket last year (average close to or on 100 in the First Class game) and did not even get a look in.

Plus Martyn had some pretty dodgey decisions in the Ashes, a couple of times there were clear inside edges which the umpire failed to pick up and he was given out LBW. In terms of strokeplay, Martyn was probably the best Australian batsman to watch in this team, the most like Mark Waugh in terms of finesse. Its a shame to see him dropped

there were clearly a lot more players than just martyn who were out of form and avoided the chop saadadvanced. the selectors needed someone to blame for the loss and thus took it out on martyn.

no one is asking you to fix the problem, i'm just pointing out that it was a slight injustice, and this is the general feeling in Australia regarding Martyn's sacking

What about Katich? Clarke? Gilchrist the best keeper in the world. I really hope you meant the best keeper-batsman in the world, as fine player he is he is not the best gloveman around.

He was dropped after a close game ended in a loss for the Aussies (against South Africa?) and he was deemed to be a culprit, playing a poor shot to get out near the end and so was dropped for that amount of time.

that perfectly right why waste his life init

you ppl need to remember in the the ashes series he got some poor desecions against him. and lately he's been in awesome form in the odi's and 20/20. I dont get y he got dropped from the test team in the frist place. it should of been katich dropped first.