ICC Rankings

[brod]

ICC Test Championship

1 125 England
2 117 South Africa
3 111 India
4 111 Australia
5 99 Pakistan
6 98 Sri Lanka
7 88 West Indies
8 83 New Zealand
9 8 Bangladesh

Zimbabwe unranked as it has played insufficent games

If Pakistan win the 3rd test v England and South Africa sweep NZ 3-0, South Africa will take over at the top
If Australia beat the West Indies 2-0 or 3-0, we will overtake India as the number 3 nation

[The Dark Knight]

ICC Test Championship

1 125 England
2 117 South Africa
3 111 India
4 111 Australia
5 99 Pakistan
6 98 Sri Lanka
7 88 West Indies
8 83 New Zealand
9 8 Bangladesh

Zimbabwe unranked as it has played insufficent games

If Pakistan win the 3rd test v England and South Africa sweep NZ 3-0, South Africa will take over at the top
If Australia beat the West Indies 2-0 or 3-0, we will overtake India as the number 3 nation

If we beat the Windies like you said and South Africa don't clean sweep NZ (maybe winning 2-0 or 1-0 with 2 draws) could Aus become the 2nd ranked test nation or do SA have to lose the series for that to happen?

[brod]

ICC Test Championship

1 125 England
2 117 South Africa
3 111 India
4 111 Australia
5 99 Pakistan
6 98 Sri Lanka
7 88 West Indies
8 83 New Zealand
9 8 Bangladesh

Zimbabwe unranked as it has played insufficent games

If Pakistan win the 3rd test v England and South Africa sweep NZ 3-0, South Africa will take over at the top
If Australia beat the West Indies 2-0 or 3-0, we will overtake India as the number 3 nation

If we beat the Windies like you said and South Africa don't clean sweep NZ (maybe winning 2-0 or 1-0 with 2 draws) could Aus become the 2nd ranked test nation or do SA have to lose the series for that to happen?

South Africa need to lose the series, if it is a 1-1 or 0-0 draw and Australia win 3-0, South Africa will be ahead by a fraction of a point

[brod]

Michael Clarke and AB de Villiers have gone joint-top of the ICC Test batsmen rankings after Kumar Sangakkara slipped from the spot due to a poor return in the Galle Test.

Not surprisingly, Vernon Philander has stormed into the top ten in the bowlers rankings, after taking 21 wickets in three Tests in New Zealand and becoming the second fastest bowler to 50 Test wickets. That means South Africa now have all their three frontline fast bowlers in the top ten, with Dale Steyn still leading the rankings and Morne Morkel in tenth place. Also moving into the top ten is Rangana Herath, who, in Galle, took the first 12-wicket match-haul in a Test since Jason Krejza's in 2008.

After losing in Galle, England must win against Sri Lanka in Colombo to retain their No. 1 ranking. Anything less would see South Africa claim the No. 1 spot. If England lose in Colombo, it would open the door for Australia to overtake them, though they would need to beat West Indies 3-0 to do it.

[brod]

West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has regained the No.1 ranking for Test batsmen after nearly three years.

TEST RANKINGS
1. 116 England
2. 116 South Africa
3. 112 Australia
4. 111 India
5. 108 Pakistan
6. 99 Sri Lanka
7. 85 West indies
8. 85 New Zealand
9. 8 Bangladesh

[brod]

England's gap at the top of the ICC Test rankings has increased after the annual update of the table, but they can still be overhauled if South Africa win the series which starts on July 19


1 August 2012
Team Matches Points Rating
England 32 3893 122
Australia 34 3952 116
South Africa 21 2364 113
Pakistan 29 3148 109
India 29 3004 104
Sri Lanka 29 2834 98
New Zealand 18 1568 87
West Indies 25 2098 84
Bangladesh 12 0 0
Zimbabwe is currently unranked, as it has played insufficient matches. It has 167 points and a rating of 42.

[brod]

ICC ODI Championship

11 July 2012
Team Matches Points Rating
Australia 53 6287 119
South Africa 30 3549 118
England 45 5290 118
India 55 6409 117
Sri Lanka 56 6265 112
Pakistan 49 5050 103
West Indies 37 3179 86
New Zealand 34 2875 85
Bangladesh 36 2408 67
Zimbabwe 33 1511 46
Ireland 14 504 36
Netherlands 9 137 15
Kenya 9 74 8

[brod]

ICC Twenty20 Championship

1 July 2012
Team Matches Points Rating
England 23 1954 130
South Africa 20 1468 122
Sri Lanka 20 1268 115
Pakistan 31 2055 108
Australia 25 1603 107
New Zealand 26 1686 105
India 16 930 103
West Indies 21 1335 103
Ireland 15 946 95
Afghanistan 11 500 83
Netherlands 8 321 64
Zimbabwe 13 463 51
Scotland 8 200 40
Canada 8 79 16
Kenya 9 75 13

[the joker]

The Aussies could be number 1 before next years ashes...

[Baron Greenback]

Why has South Africa played so little cricket?

With our injuries, I'd be pushing for a similar draw to the Proteas next year.

[brod]

India with a 4-1 series win over Sri Lanka have moved into 2nd on the ODI rankings

[brod]

New Zealand's Brendon MuCullum has moved to No. 1 in the Twenty20 Internationals rankings, following his match-winning 91 against India in Chennai on Tuesday. In the bowlers' rankings, Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal, who moved up to No. 1 in the ODI bowling rankings at the end of the one-dayers against Australia, repeated the feat in the T20s, where he took six wickets in three games at 8.66.

Batting: 1 Brendon McCullum, 2 Chris Gayle, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 David Warner, 5 Martin Guptill, 6 Mahela Jayawardene, 7 Shane Watson, 8 Jacques Kallis, 9 Eoin Morgan, 10 Tillakaratne Dilshan

Bowling: 1 Saeed Ajmal, 2 Graeme Swann, 3 Johan Botha, 4 Ajantha Mendis, 5 Nathan McCullum, 6 Shahid Afridi, 7 Shane Watson, 8 Abdur Razzak, 9 Lasith Malinga, 10 Shakib Al Hasan