By ICC Rankings-India slips to 2nd place in ICC T20 rankings, 3rd position in ODIs: India retained their second position in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) T20 team rankings after the annual update on Monday but slipped one place to third in the ODI rankings.
England (277 points) topped the T20 team rankings while India are five ratings points behind.
During this period, England drew a three-match series 1–1 against Pakistan, while beating Australia 2–1 and South Africa 3–0. The team suffered a 2-3 defeat against India on their soil.
New Zealand have benefited in the annual update to the T20 and the team has moved up from fifth to third place. The team defeated West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Bangladesh during this period. Australia’s team has slipped from third to fifth place.
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh gain one place to eighth and ninth place respectively. West Indies are 10th in the loss by two places.
According to the ICC, the 2017-18 results have been removed in this update and the importance of matches played in 2019-20 has been halved.
In the annual update of the ODI team rankings, India have slipped one place after third place, Australia and now New Zealand.
New Zealand have removed defending world champions England from the top position. New Zealand have gained two places and have a total of 121 points. Australia has 118 points. India and England both have 115 but India are in third place due to better position in decimal digits.
In the last 12 months, England suffered a 1-2 defeat in the one-day series against Australia and India, while Ireland also defeated them in the one-day match.
In the new update, all matches played after May 2020 have been kept at 100 percent while the marks for the last two years have been reduced to 50 percent. Australia moved up two places to second place while India lost one place.
West Indies has moved up to ninth position, overtaking Sri Lanka.
The Netherlands have been retained on the old rankings as they played just four ODIs during the new rating time. During this period, the team’s matches were postponed due to Kovid-19.
There is no change in the ranking of Pakistan, Afghanistan and South Africa in both formats. Afghanistan is 10th in ODIs and seventh in T20s. Pakistan is sixth and fourth respectively, while South Africa is at the fifth and sixth position.
Despite the epidemic, 80 countries managed to play six T20Is in the three years needed to stay in the rankings. Five countries Zambia, Ghana, Hungary, Sierra Leone and Sweden lost their rankings after the update.
The annual update of the Test rankings will be followed by the end of the current series after Pakistan and Zimbabwe.
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