LONDON (CMC) - Brian Lara's near double-century knock and Makhaya Ntini's tremendous bowling performance earned them elevation in the latest LG International Cricket Council (ICC) world ratings released Wednesday. Lara moved three places up the batting rankings and Ntini surged four places up the table - into the top five - after guiding South Africa to an eight-wicket win over West Indies at Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad. Lara's huge knock of 196 in the first innings raised him three places up to third in the batting rankings, behind South African Jacques Kallis and India's Rahul Dravid. The only other West Indians in the batting top 30 are Shivnarine Chanderpaul at 17th, Ramnaresh Sarwan five places lower, and Chris Gayle at 26th. Ntini rises to fourth place in bowling after producing the best ever bowling figures in Tests for a South African. His 13 for 132 haul, the best ever in the Caribbean, lifted him to within just 13 points of team-mate Shaun Pollock on the ICC bowling list. There is no change in the top three bowlers - Australian Glenn McGrath ahead of Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan and Pollock. Pedro Collins, at 18th, is the highest ranked West Indies bowler, and Merv Dillon is the only other West Indies bowler in the top 30. ICC Rankings Batting 1 Jacques Kallis (SA) 2 Rahul Dravid (India) 3 Brian Lara (WI) 4 Ricky Ponting (Aus) 5 Virender Sehwag (India) 6 Damien Martyn (Aus) 7 Adam Gilchrist (Aus) 8 Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) 9 Younis Khan (Pak) 10 Andrew Strauss (Eng) 17th Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI) 22nd Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI) 26th Chris Gayle (WI) Bowling: 1 Glenn McGrath (Aus) 2 Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) 3 Shaun Pollock (SA) 4 Makhaya Ntini (SA) 5 Shoaib Akhtar (Pak) 6 Shane Warne (Aus) 7 Anil Kumble (India) 8 Jason Gillespie (Aus) 9 Steve Harmison (Eng) 10 Danish Kaneria (Pak) 18th Pedro Collins (WI) 28th Mervyn Dillon (WI) Reprinted from jamaicaobserver.com