Cricket: Independent on Sunday Rankings

Batsmen

1 ( 2) G A Gooch (Essex) 1,528 2 ( 1) B C Lara (Warwickshire) 1,434 3 ( 5) G A Hick (Worcestershire) 1,288 4 ( 3) J P Crawley (Lancashire) 1,208 5 ( 4) C L Hooper (Kent) 1,187 6 (10) D Byas (Yorkshire) 1,117 7 ( 6) R A Smith (Hampshire) 1,110 8 ( 7) M R Ramprakash (Middx) 1,109 9 ( 8) A J Stewart (Surrey) 1,082 10 (12) R G Twose (Warwickshire) 1,043 11 (18) C J Adams (Nottinghamshire) 1,018 12 (12) D M Ward (Surrey) 1,013 13 ( 9) D J Bicknell (Surrey) 1,007 14 (13) W Larkins (Durham) 987 15 (15) P V Simmons (Leicestershire) 983 16 (-) G P Thorpe (Surrey) 978 17 (19) M N Lathwell (Somerset) 973 18 (20) M A Atherton (Lancashire) 970 19 (17) T M Moody (Worcestershire) 965 20 (-) J C Adams (Derbyshire) 949

Bowlers

1 ( 3) P A J DeFreitas (Derbyshire) 1,446 2 ( 1) J E Benjamin (Surrey) 1,443 3 ( 2) C A Walsh (Gloucestershire) 1,418 4 ( 6) T A Munton (Warwickshire) 1,122 5 ( 4) M M Patel (Kent) 1,085 6 ( 7) R L Johnson (Middlesex) 989 7 (13) S D Udal (Hampshire) 974 8 ( 4) Mushtaq Ahmed (Somerset) 961 9 (12) F D Stephenson (Sussex) 957 10 ( 9) S R Lampitt (Worcestershire) 935 11 (14) N M K Smith (Warwickshire) 897 12 (20) P J Hartley (Yorkshire) 890 13 ( 8) C E L Ambrose (Northamptonshire) 877 14 (11) D J Millns (Leicestershire) 876 15 (10) G W Mike (Nottinghamshire) 874 16 (16) M Watkinson (Lancashire) 847 17 (-) P M Such (Essex) 832 18 (-) P J Newport (Worcestershire) 822 19 (-) R A Pick (Nottinghamshire) 815