India's 1-0 series loss to Pakistan cost them the coveted status of second-best Test team in the world, in the latest LG ICC Test rankings.

Greg Chappell's men slipped down to third place after losing the third Test and series against Pakistan in Karachi on Wednesday.

The huge 341-run defeat cut India's rating points from 115 to 111 and dropped them to third place below England, who have 113 points.

Australia are way ahead at the top with 129 points.

For Pakistan, the series triumph not only made amends for the 2-1 home defeat at the hands of their archrivals two years ago, but also boosted their rating in the Test Championship table.

Although they haven't moved up and remain in fourth position, Pakistan still gained five rating points because of the victory and now have 108 points, just three behind India.

India held the second spot in the ICC Test Championship table for just over a month, having assumed that position in late December after a 2-0 series win against Sri Lanka, coupled with England's 2-0 drubbing in Pakistan.

However, India can draw solace from the fact that they will not have to wait for long to regain the second spot as they face Michael Vaughan's side in March in a three-match Test series at home.

Pakistan are also now very much in the battle for second place as they have a series against Sri Lanka in March.

In the ICC Player Rankings, India skipper Rahul Dravid's twin failures in Karachi cost him a place among the top five batsmen.

Dravid is now in sixth place and although he remains India's top-ranked batsman, his rating and ranking is his lowest in two years.

Dravid is not the lone Indian batsmen to slip down the rankings. Despite a double century at Lahore, Virender Sehwag is down two places to ninth while Sachin Tendulkar slips one rung to 12th and VVS Laxman has gone two notches down to 23rd.

India's one ray of light in the batting listings is Yuvraj Singh, who scored his second Test hundred in Karachi.

Yuvraj moved up 23 places and is now joint-44th (along with Pakistan opener Salman Butt), the first time in the top 50. 

Pakistan retained three batsmen in the top ten places, with Inzamam-ul Haq, who missed the third Test with a back injury, in fifth place, along with Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf.

India's nemisis in the just-concluded Test series, stand-in skipper Younis Khan, who was adjudged the man of the series, moves up one rung to seventh, while Mohammed Yousuf

jumped a place to eighth. Both players are close to their career-best haul of rating points.

The Pakistan-India series was something of a graveyard for bowlers and at the end of it, only one player from either side -- Shoaib Akhtar, in seventh -- is in the top ten.

LG ICC Test Rankings

Batsmen

Rank	+/-	Player	Team	Points	Avge	HS Ranking
1	( - )	Ricky Ponting	Aus	922	57.71	922 v SA at Sydney 2006
2	( - )	Jacques Kallis	SA	888	57.24	896 v Eng at Cape Town 2005
3	( - )	Brian Lara	WI	874	53.86	911 v SA at Cape Town 2004
4	(+2)	Matthew Hayden	Aus	858	54.17	935 v Eng at Brisbane 2002
5	( - )	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pak	856	51.72	870 v Eng at Lahore 2005
6	(-2)	Rahul Dravid	Ind	825	57.65	892 v Pak at Kolkata 2005
7	(+1)	Younis Khan	Pak	807	48.43	822 v Ind at Faisalabad 2006
8	(+1)	Mhd Yousuf	Pak	793	50.75	797 v Ind at Faisalabad 2006
9	(-2)	Virender Sehwag	Ind	777	54.75	854 v SA at Kolkata 2004
10	( - )	M.E.Trescothick	Eng	768	45.47	818 v Pak at Multan 2005
11	(+1)	S.Chanderpaul	WI	711	45.94	811 v SL at Colombo (SSC) 2005
12	(-1)	S.R.Tendulkar	Ind	705	56.14	898 v Zim at Nagpur 2002
13	( - )	M.Jayawardene	SL	699	47.80	836 v Eng at Birmingham 2002
14	( - )	H.H.Gibbs	SA	692	46.82	825 v WI at Centurion 2004
15	( - )	Andrew Strauss	Eng	690	46.31	769 v SA at Johannesburg 2005
16	( - )	Adam Gilchrist	Aus	687	50.18	874 v SA at Cape Town 2002
17	( - )	Justin Langer	Aus	686	45.72	780 v SA at Sydney 2002
18	( - )	Damien Martyn	Aus	676	47.96	848 v NZ at Wellington 2005
19	( - )	Graeme Smith	SA	674	51.54	756 v NZ at Wellington 2004
20	( - )	K.C.Sangakkara	SL	668	46.60	813 v Pak at Lahore 2002

Bowlers

Rank	+/-	Player	Team	Points	Avge	HS Ranking
1	( - )	Glenn McGrath	Aus	853	21.55	914 v Eng at The Oval 2001
2	( - )	M.Muralitharan	SL	845	22.47	915 v Pak at Lahore 2002
3	( - )	Shane Warne	Aus	842	25.15	905 v Eng at Melbourne 1994
4	( - )	Andrew Flintoff	Eng	781	31.51	810 v Pak at Multan 2005
5	( - )	Makhaya Ntini	SA	778	29.22	807 v WI at Port-of-Spain 2005
6	( - )	Chaminda Vaas	SL	775	28.81	800 v Ind at Chennai 2005
7	( - )	Shoaib Akhtar	Pak	766	25.69	855 v NZ at Wellington 2003
8	( - )	Andre Nel	SA	763 *	26.22	763 v Aus at Sydney 2006
9	( - )	Shaun Pollock	SA	742	22.76	909 v Eng at Johannesburg 1999
10	( - )	Matt' Hoggard	Eng	730	30.07	762 v Aus at The Oval 2005
11	( - )	Anil Kumble	Ind	705	28.87	859 v SL at Bangalore 1994
12	(+3)	Irfan Pathan	Ind	699 *	29.55	761 v SL at Delhi 2005
13	(-1)	Shane Bond	NZ	696 *	20.80	696 v Zim at Bulawayo 2005
14	( - )	Steve Harmison	Eng	679	28.72	875 v WI at The Oval 2004
15	(-2)	Danish Kaneria	Pak	662	31.61	723 v Eng at Multan 2005
16	( - )	Shabbir Ahmed	Pak	615 *	23.03	647 v Eng at Multan 2005
17	(+1)	Simon Jones	Eng	606 *	28.22	631 v Aus at Nottingham 2005
18	(-1)	Harbhajan Singh	Ind	605	29.71	765 v NZ at Wellington 2002
19	( - )	Jason Gillespie	Aus	604	26.61	812 v NZ at Adelaide 2004
20	( - )	Corey Collymore	WI	600 *	31.36	600 v Aus at Adelaide 2005

LG ICC Test all-rounder rankings