ICC TEST BATTING RANKING

Rank	Player	Country	Rating
1	S Chanderpaul	WI	890
2	KC Sangakkara	SL	886
3	MEK Hussey	AUS	882
4	RT Ponting	AUS	880
4	Mohammad Yousuf	PAK	880
6	DPMD Jayawardena	SL	837
7	ML Hayden	AUS	834
8	KP Pietersen	ENG	829
9	Younis Khan	PAK	799
10	V Sehwag	IND	786
11	JH Kallis	SA	774
12	GC Smith	SA	739
13	MJ Clarke	AUS	723
14	A Symonds	AUS	700
15	VVS Laxman	IND	699
16	Rahul Dravid	IND	686
16	AN Cook	ENG	686
18	AB de Villiers	SA	679
19	RR Sarwan	WI	659
20	AG Prince	SA	659

ICC ODI BATTING RANKINGS

Rank	Player	Country	Rating
1	MS Dhoni	IND	793
2	MEK Hussey	AUS	776
3	GC Smith	SA	764
4	RT Ponting	AUS	740
5	Mohammad Yousaf	PAK	738
6	S Chanderpaul	WI	733
7	KP Pietersen	ENG	730
8	SR Tendulkar	IND	724
9	A Symonds	AUS	719
10	ML Hayden	AUS	711
11	HH Gibbs	SA	700
12	CH Gayle	WI	700
13	AB de Villiers	SA	687
14		SL	680
15	MJ Clarke	AUS	677
16	Shoaib Malik	PAK	676
17	Sanath Jayasuriya	SL	675
18	Yuvraj Singh	IND	673
19	RR Sarwan	WI	667
20	Salman Butt	PAK	666

ICC ODI CHAMPIONSHIP

Rank	Team	Matches	Rating
1	Australia	28	131
2	South Africa	25	118
3	England	27	116
4	New Zealand	21	116
5	India	36	113
6	Pakistan	25	110
7	Sri Lanka	27	105
8	West Indies	21	95
9	Bangladesh	27	45
10	Ireland	8	22
11	Zimbabwe	15	16
12	Kenya	3	0

ICC TEST RANKINGS

Rank	Team	Matches	Ratings
1	Australia	26	138
2	South Africa	34	116
3	India	35	109
4	Sri Lanka	28	108
5	England	38	104
6	Pakistan	19	100
7	New Zealand	21	83
8	West Indies	22	81
9	Bangladesh	14	0

MOST RUNS IN TESTS

Name	Matches	Innings	Runs	Ave	100	50
Brain Lara	131	232	11953	52.88	34	48
Sachin Tendulkar	150	244	11877	54.23	39	49
AR Border	156	265	11174	50.56	27	63
SR Waugh	168	260	10927	51.06	32	50
Rahul Dravid	125	216	10246	53.92	25	52
SM Gavaskar	125	214	10122	51.12	34	45
RT Ponting	119	199	10099	58.37	35	40
JH Kallis	123	209	9761	55.46	30	48
GA Gooch	118	215	8900	42.58	20	46
Javed Miandad	124	189	8832	52.57	23	43
			Updated till: 16 th Sept

MOST RUNS IN ODIs

Name	Matches	Runs	Ave	100	50
Sachin Tendulkar	417	16361	44.33	42	89
Sanath Jayasuriya	421	12785	32.69	27	66
Inzamam-ul-Haq	378	11739	39.52	10	83
Sourav Ganguly	311	11363	41.02	22	72
Ricky Ponting	301	11113	43.24	26	64
Rahul Dravid	333	10585	39.49	12	81
Brian Lara	299	10405	40.48	19	63
Adam Gilchrist	287	9619	36.89	16	55
JH Kallis	279	9609	44.69	16	66
M Azharuddin	334	9378	36.92	7	58
			Updated till: 16 th Sept

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US BOX OFFICE TOP 10

Rank	Weekend Total	Weeks	Screens	Weekend screen avg.	Cumulative box office
1.	Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
	$29,300,465 (%)	1	3,215	$9,113	$29,300,465
2.	Eagle Eye (2008)
	$17,709,817 (-39%)	2	3,2516	$5,036	$54,614,521
3.	Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)
	$11,311,751 (%)	1	2,421	$4,672	$11,311,751
4.	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
	$7,368,259 (-45%)	2	2,702	$2,726	$25,088,183
5.	Appaloosa (2008)
	$5,050,310 (3346%)	3	1,045	$4,832	$5,605,167
6.	Lakeview Terrace (2008)
	$4,561,227 (-35%)	3	2,574	$1,772	$32,201,255
7.	Burn After Reading (2008)
	$4,120,129 (-34%)	4	2,397	$1,718	$51,678,103
8.	Fireproof (2008)
	$3,987,509 (-41%)	2	852	$4,680	$12,410,216
9.	An American Carol (2008)
	$3,656,000 (%)	1	1,639	$2,230	$3,656,000
10.	Religulous (2008)
	$3,409,643 (%)	1	502	$6,792	$3,428,633

"BABYLON A.D REVIEW ANALYSIS"

MOVIE DETAILS:

In a bleak future, Vin Diesel is assigned to protect a woman who is host to an organism that may become a genetically engineered Messiah. Just an average Saturday for Vin Diesel.

REVIEW ANALYSIS:

One can’t help but feel a little bit sorry for Babylon A.D., a movie that’s been disowned by its director, ignored by its star and dumped into theatres by its studio during the slowest of the summer’s dog days. But as much as I’d like to offer the film some words of encouragement and a pat on the back for effort, I have to concede that it’s pretty terrible and not in the “so-terrible-it’s-awesome” way of such past late-summer gems as Snakes on a Plane and Neil LaBute’s demented Wicker Man remake.

No, Babylon A.D. is just plain bad; it’s the kind of film that’s such a waste of time and resources, you have to wonder why it was made in the first place. And as tempting as it is to accept director Mathieu Kassovitz’s version of what went wrong—namely, that the studio compromised his artistic freedom at every turn, even cutting their own version of the movie in the editing room—based on the elements he had direct control over (such as the performances and the screenplay), it’s hard to imagine a director’s cut being significantly better.

Although the credits claim that Babylon A.D. is based on the popular French sci-fi novel Babylon Babies, the movie more closely resembles a louder, dumber cousin of Alfonso Cuarón’s masterful Children of Men—call it Children of Men 2: This Time It’s Twins! Vin Diesel takes over the Clive Owen role as a world-weary cynic who learns to care again after prolonged exposure to a mysterious young woman carrying mankind’s future in her uterus. In Babylon A.D., this character’s name is Toorop and he’s a semi-retired human smuggler forcibly brought out of hiding by Russian mob boss Gorksy (Gérard Depardieu) for a high-paying gig.

Toorop’s mission, which he has little choice but to accept, is to transport the lovely Aurora (Melanie Thierry) and her guardian Sister Rebecca (Michelle Yeoh) from the Russian wilderness to New York City, where she’ll be met by her famous mother (Charlotte Rampling), high priestess of the vaguely Scientology-like Neolite religion. Along the way to the Big Apple, the trio is pursued by an army of goons that seem to be in the employ of Aurora‘s thought-to-be-dead father (Lambert Wilson), a scientist who for some reason thought it would be a good idea to implant artificial intelligence in human babies. (With an experiment that stupid, he can only be a descendent of Professor Frink from “The Simpsons.”) Two of his A.I.-enhanced tykes are currently gestating in Aurora‘s belly, where they provide their mom with special powers, like the ability to stop a guided missile with her mind. Too bad they aren’t also able to make this ridiculous story have a lick of sense.

Joking aside, Babylon A.D. actually gets off to a decent start and there are flashes throughout of the kind of film Kassovitz must have set out to make. As in Children of Men, Babylon offers a vision of the future that is essentially a dilapidated version of the present, where all the impressive technology can’t mask how cheap human life has become. Kassovitz seems particularly fascinated by the concept of borders and how much more difficult it becomes to move from country to country in an era of advanced globalization. The film’s most memorable scene (or, to be more accurate, its only memorable scene) finds Toorop, Aurora and Sister Rebecca racing dozens of other immigrants to win a spot on the only vessel bound for the Russian border: an ancient Cold War-era submarine where the crew shoots those unlucky enough to make it on in time.

Had Kassovitz (or the editors hired to cut the film on his behalf) actually pursued this thematic thread, it might have made the picture an ambitious failure instead of simply a failure. But any deeper ideas are quickly lost amidst the incomprehensible action sequences, the wooden acting and the nonsensical third act, in which the studio’s interference becomes blatantly obvious. (If the last scene makes any sense to you, please post an analysis online so the rest of us can figure out what the heck happened.) We can argue over who is ultimately responsible for this mess until the movie turns up on cable, but the fact is, some films are just doomed to failure from the moment they’re green-lit despite the best intentions of everyone involved. Babylon A.D. is one of those films.

ICC TEST BATTING RANKING

Rank	Player	Country	Rating
1	S Chanderpaul	WI	890
2	KC Sangakkara	SL	886
3	MEK Hussey	AUS	882
4	RT Ponting	AUS	880
4	Mohammad Yousuf	PAK	880
6	DPMD Jayawardena	SL	837
7	ML Hayden	AUS	834
8	KP Pietersen	ENG	829
9	Younis Khan	PAK	799
10	V Sehwag	IND	786
11	JH Kallis	SA	774
12	GC Smith	SA	739
13	MJ Clarke	AUS	723
14	A Symonds	AUS	700
15	VVS Laxman	IND	699
16	Rahul Dravid	IND	686
16	AN Cook	ENG	686
18	AB de Villiers	SA	679
19	RR Sarwan	WI	659
20	AG Prince	SA	659

ICC ODI BATTING RANKINGS

Rank	Player	Country	Rating
1	MS Dhoni	IND	793
2	MEK Hussey	AUS	776
3	GC Smith	SA	764
4	RT Ponting	AUS	740
5	Mohammad Yousaf	PAK	738
6	S Chanderpaul	WI	733
7	KP Pietersen	ENG	730
8	SR Tendulkar	IND	724
9	A Symonds	AUS	719
10	ML Hayden	AUS	711
11	HH Gibbs	SA	700
12	CH Gayle	WI	700
13	AB de Villiers	SA	687
14		SL	680
15	MJ Clarke	AUS	677
16	Shoaib Malik	PAK	676
17	Sanath Jayasuriya	SL	675
18	Yuvraj Singh	IND	673
19	RR Sarwan	WI	667
20	Salman Butt	PAK	666