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Dubai, Jun 1: It is official! Bradman is The Don of all batsmen.

The finding comes after the new LG ICC Players Rankings website, which was launched on Wednesday, allows fans to compare the batsmen and bowlers across all eras based on the highest ever rating points they had achieved in the course of their career.

Don of cricket: Bradman's class has been given an official recognition. (Pic courtesy: Reuters)

Sir Donald Bradman stands tall in 'Best Ever Ratings for Test Batsmen' category with a rating of 961 points that he had set to have achieved during Australia's home series against India in 1948.

Both the batsmen's and bowlers' list in this category stand true to the maxim 'old is gold', dominated as they are by the players of yesteryears.

It is an irony since the records for most aggregate runs, wickets taken and centuries scored all belong to the modern cricketers.

Among the contemporaries, Australian captain Ricky Ponting is eighth with a best ever rating of 937, followed by Matthew Hayden at ninth (935), Brian Lara (23rd, 911), Jacques Kallis (31st) and Michael Vaughan (41st).

Sunil Gavaskar is the best Indian batsman, placed at 20 with 916 points he had achieved during the England series of 1974.

Sachin Tendulkar is 28th (898) and Rahul Dravid 34th (892).

The story is much the same in the Test bowlers' list.

West Indies' mean machine Joel Garner with 940 points tops the list in which Sid Barnes of England is second with 932 points.

Kapil had the best all-round performance at the time of India's World Cup triumph in 1983.