England's Ian Bell [ Images ] continues to be the leading run-scorer in 2011, thanks to his exploits on India's [ Images ] tour of England [ Images ]. His tally is 950 from eight matches, with an amazing average of 118.75, includes five centuries and two fifties.

India's top run-getter this year Rahul Dravid [ Images ] dropped a place to fourth despite a good showing in the first Test against the West Indies [ Images ]. His place was taken by Sri Lanka's [ Images ] Kumar Sangakkara [ Images ], who jumped two rungs after a splendind showing with the bat against Pakistan in the just-concluded series in the UAE.

On the bowling front, Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal [ Images ] leaped five places to No 1 after the series against Sri Lanka. He displaced Ishant Sharma [ Images ], who dropped to second.

A look at the leading batsmen and bowlers in 2011.

Top-20 batsmen:

#	Batsman	For	Mts	Inns	Runs	Hs	Avg	100	50	0
1	IR Bell	Eng	8	11	950	235	118.75	5	2	1
2	AN Cook	Eng	8	11	927	294	84.27	4	2	0
3	KC Sangakkara	SL	9	17	923	211	54.29	3	4	0
4	R Dravid	Ind	9	18	833	146*	55.53	4	2	0
5	KP Pietersen	Eng	8	11	731	202*	73.10	2	4	0
6	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pak	8	13	669	102*	74.33	1	6	0
7	Taufeeq Umar [ Images ]	Pak	8	16	637	236	42.47	2	2	2
8	Azhar Ali	Pak	8	15	615	100	47.31	1	6	1
9	S Chanderpaul	WI	7	13	595	118	59.50	2	1	0
10	DM Bravo	WI	8	16	569	195	37.93	1	3	0
11	VVS Laxman [ Images ]	Ind	9	18	531	87	35.40	0	6	1
12	TM Dilshan	SL	8	14	526	193	37.57	1	3	0
13	NT Paranavitana	SL	9	18	523	76*	32.69	0	5	4
14	MJ Prior	Eng	8	10	519	126	64.88	3	2	1
15	SR Tendulkar	Ind	6	12	516	146	46.91	1	3	0
16	MEK Hussey	Aus	4	8	509	142	63.62	2	2	0
17	Younis Khan [ Images ]	Pak	6	9	500	122	62.50	1	4	0
18	AD Mathews	SL	6	11	449	105*	64.14	1	4	0
19	Mohammad Hafeez [ Images ]	Pak	8	16	443	119	34.08	1	2	1
20	DPMD Jayawardene	SL	9	17	427	105	25.12	1	2	0

Top-20 bowlers:

#	Bowler	For	Mts	Wkts	Best	Avg	SR	RpO	5WI	10WM
1	Saeed Ajmal	Pak	6	41	6-42	23.41	58.02	2.42	3	1
2	I Sharma	Ind	9	38	6-55	33.66	60.21	3.35	2	1
3	JM Anderson	Eng	7	35	5-65	24.86	50.80	2.94	1	0
=	D Bishoo	WI	8	35	5-90	31.09	60.63	3.08	1	0
5	SCJ Broad	Eng	7	33	6-46	22.30	49.15	2.72	1	0
6	HMRKB Herath	SL	8	32	7-157	31.97	74.38	2.58	2	0
7	FH Edwards	WI	6	29	5-63	25.24	40.34	3.75	3	0
8	Umar Gul	Pak	6	27	4-61	24.41	49.07	2.98	0	0
=	P Kumar	Ind	6	27	5-106	25.81	59.67	2.60	1	0
=	GP Swann	Eng	8	27	6-106	34.22	64.30	3.19	1	0
11	C Welegedara	SL	8	26	5-87	32.62	60.31	3.24	1	0
=	DJG Sammy	WI	8	26	5-29	25.04	63.46	2.37	1	0
13	R Rampaul	WI	7	25	4-48	25.00	58.20	2.58	0	0
=	Abdur Rehman	Pak	6	25	4-65	29.28	79.12	2.22	0	0
15	CT Tremlett	Eng	5	23	6-48	27.17	54.17	3.01	1	0
16	TT Bresnan	Eng	4	21	5-48	19.10	39.86	2.87	1	0
17	Harbhajan Singh [ Images ]	Ind	6	20	7-120	38.05	77.90	2.93	1	0
18	RAS Lakmal	SL	8	15	3-55	56.80	91.73	3.72	0	0
19	Mohammad Hafeez	Pak	8	14	4-31	23.14	62.14	2.23	0	0
=	DL Vettori	NZ	3	14	5-70	24.71	81.93	1.81	1	0
=	Shakib Al Hasan	Ban	3	14	5-63	25.07	53.00	2.84	1	0

Note: All statistics up to and including the first Test between India and West Indies in New Delhi [ Images ].

COMPILED BY RAJNEESH GUPTA