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Dubai, Jun 9: India's failure to take the last West Indies wicket and win the first cricket Test in Antigua means it cannot now overtake England and move into second place in the ICC Test Championship table - at least for the time being.

A clean sweep of the four-match series would have taken India to 112 rating points, the same mark as England, but Rahul Dravid's side would have moved into second spot when the ratings were re-calculated to three decimal places.

However, the inability to break the resistance of last West Indies pair of Fidel Edwards and Corey Collymore on Tuesday means that, even if India wins the remaining matches of the series to secure a 3-0 success, it cannot improve on its current rating of 111 points.

Wasim Jaffer, who hit his maiden double hundred in second innings, has jumped 29 places to be in 55th spot in the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen.

The news for India's other batsmen is not quite so good. Dravid has dropped down two places to fourth position, as has Virender Sehwag, who now finds himself 14th.

Below them are the injured Sachin Tendulkar, unchanged in 17th, and V V S Laxman, down one spot to 27th.

Anil Kumble remains India's best-placed bowler in the listings, in 8th position. Irfan Pathan and Harbhajan Singh, who both missed out on places in the final eleven in the first Test, are 12th and 23rd respectively.

  

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