Dubai:With the World Cup just around the corner, SachinTendulkar sounded warning to his opponents by moving back into the list oftop-20 ODI batsmen on the LG-ICC Player ranking released today (Feb 1, 2007).

Tendulkar, who hit his 41st hundred in the fourth and final match of theone-day international series against West Indies yesterday, climbed four placesto be joint 18th alongside Sri Lanka's Upul Tharanga. He amassed 191 runsfrom the four matches.

The Mumbai batsman had slipped out of the elite club in April last year butbriefly regained his place during a tri-series against Australia and the WestIndies in Malaysia and the ICC Champions Trophy, and then dropped out again bythe end of the latter tournament in November 2006.

Wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the highest-placed Indian,occupying fourth place after gaining two spots to be behind leaders Mike Husseyof Australia, England's Kevin Pietersen and Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting inthat order.

India now boast four players inside the top 20 batting slots with captain RahulDravid moving three places up in 12th spot and Yuvraj Singh lying 20th.

Although Yuvraj has slipped one place, the good news is that he is playingagain after being sidelined since October with a serious knee injury.

India's 3-1 success againstthe West Indies, was however, not enough tolift it up from sixth place in the ODI Team Championship table.