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 Hayden Maintains Lead against Graem Smith..

As expected, Graem Smith gave a chase to Mathew Hayden in the NCR race for the top slot. However, in the end, Smith was still well short of Hayden at 275 points as against 344 of Hayden.

In the top 10 at this stage, there were as many as 5 Australians reflecting the dominance they have displayed in the tournament so far.There were also 2 Aouth Africans and one New Zealander. Of course, New Zwealand is yet to play their first Super Eight match and Scot Styris is still in contention for perhaps the second or third spot by tomorrow end.

West Indies will have another match tomorrow and perhaps some body from their team may find a place temporarily in th top five.

The top 10 in the table at this interim stage would be are as follows:

Rank	Points	Name	Country
1	344	Mathew Hayden	Australia
2	275	Graem Smith	South Africa
3	269	Brad Hogg	Australia
4	238	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies
5	225	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
6	197	Scott Styris	New Zealand
	197	Geln McGrath	Australia
7	188	Michel Clarke	Australia
8	187	Ricky Ponting	Australia
9	186	Steve Tikolo	Kenya
10	185	JM Davison	Canada

Chris Gayle who was one of the pre tournament favourites for the NCR man of the tournament, is yet to find his feet in th tournament and is way behind his team mates Dwyane Smith and Bravo . He needs a Hayden like innings to break into the top and stake a claim to the top slot. Since he also bowl regularly he will have more opportunities than Hayden to gain NCR points.

Naavi

March 28, 2007