New Delhi, July 2: Left-handed opener Gautam Gambhir is country’s highest-ranked Test batsman at number three and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, at sixth, is the highest-placed Indian bowler in the latest International Cricket Council rankings issued on Thursday.

Gambhir, with 847 rating points, is the only Indian to figure in the top 10 batsmen’s chart, followed by Sachin Tendulkar (13th), V.V.S. Laxman (15th) and Virender Sehwag (20th).

In the bowlers’ chart, Harbhajan is the lone Indian in top-10, followed by Zaheer Khan (11th) and Ishant Sharma (20th).

Overall, Sri Lanka’s iconic spinner Muttiah Muralitharan heads the bowlers’s list just ahead of South Africa’s Dale Steyn. With 11 points separating the two bowlers, Steyn can regain the number one position — he last held in April 2008 — if Muralitharan fails to put up a good display in the first Test against Pakistan beginning at Galle from Saturday.

In the Test team rankings, India (117 points) are placed third behind top-ranked Australia (128) and South Africa (119). Meanwhile Pakistan, currently sixth, will go into their three-Test series against Sri Lanka aiming for the fourth place, replacing the Lankans.

A 1-0 or 2-1 series win for Younis Khan’s side will be enough to put them on 105 ratings points alongside Lanka but ahead of Kumar Sangakkara’s side when the ratings are calculated beyond the decimal point.

Individually, Younis, currently the number one batsman in this format, will be aiming to become the 25th batsman in history to reach the 900-point mark.