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2021 ICC Rankings Annual Update - New Zealand and West Indies to expect historic gains
April 21, 2021
Its that time of the year when ICC Team Ratings go through
changes overnight, often resulting in changes in ICC Team Rankings. Its time
for ICC Team Rankings Annual Update. On May 1 every year, points earned earlier
than 36 months are dropped from ICC Team Ranking calculations. The weightage of
points earned earlier than May of last year is also halved. These mathematical
adjustments often leads to changes in team ratings that may effect the
changes in team rankings as well.
In ICC Test Team Rankings, West Indies are expected to break
into Top-6 Teams for the first time since the inception of official ICC Test
Ranking in 2002. West Indies are currently ranked 8th with 81 Rating
Points. The Annual Update is expected to take them to 84.41 points, surpassing
79.59 points of South Africa and 76.85 points of Sri Lanka. Both South Africa
and Sri Lanka will drop one rank in the table. England and Australia are also expected
to swap places at 3rd and 4th spot. England (currently
ranked 4th with 106 points) are expected to gain 3.14 points that
will be sufficient for them to rise above Australia (expected to lose 4.89
points). Australia are currently ranked 3rd with 113 points.
The rating points of all other teams will also be updated but not resulting in any other change in ICC Test Teams Rankings. New Zealand, Pakistan and Zimbabwe are also expected gain a couple of points. India are expected to hold on to their top rank even after losing about a point.
Bangladesh is expected to lose 4.86 rating points but the biggest loser of this
year’s ICC Test Rankings Annual Update is expected to be South Africa with the
loss of 9.41 points. It will also be the first time since August 1963 where South Africa will not be part of Top-6 Test sides (excluding their isolation era).
Meanwhile, interesting shake up, right at the top of the
table, is expected in ICC ODI Rankings. England – the current #1 ODI Team – is
expected to lose 6.12 points to slip from 121 points to 114.88 points. India (currently
ranked 2nd) are also expected to lose 3.69 points, sliding from 119
to 115.31 points. Meanwhile, Australia are expected to gain 6.55 points raising
their rating points tally from 111 to 117.55 – higher than both India and
England – and their ICC ODI Ranking to 2nd spot.
New Zealand are expected to become the highest ranked ODI
team in the world for the first time ever. They have never been ranked 1st
in ICC ODI Rankings. New Zealand are currently ranked 3rd with 118
points. They are expected to gain 2.79 points taking their tally to 120.79,
sufficient to place them highest on ICC ODI Teams Rankings table.
Sri Lanka (currently ranked 8th) and West Indies
(currently ranked 9th) are also expected to swap places in ICC ODI
Rankings. The biggest loser in this year’s annual update is expected to be
Pakistan with a loss of 5.05 points. The ICC ODI Team Rankings of other ICC
Full Member teams are expected to remain the same.
4 day Tests – Solution or Illusion?
HOME ADVANTAGE:
Toss Advantage:
People have not lost interest in Test Cricket because of its length. It is nothing but an illusion. People are still interested in seeing more of Leeds and Cape Town Tests. What they are no more interested in is boring, predictable, lopsided Cricket. For them, the grinding, fluctuating, unpredictable and intensely competitive Cricket is still irresistible, regardless if it lasts for 4 days or 5.
ICC World Test Championship - Retrospective View - 2016-2019
ICC World Test Championship 2019-2021
Tests in Series | Points Available | Points for each | ||
Win | Tie | Draw | ||
2 | 120 | 60 | 30 | 20 |
3 | 120 | 40 | 20 | 13.3 |
4 | 120 | 30 | 15 | 10 |
5 | 120 | 24 | 12 | 8 |
Similarly, England will play the most number of Tests, 11, away from home, while Sri Lanka will play only 6 away Tests. Australia will play 10, West Indies 9, India 8, while Bangladesh, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa will play 7 Tests each away from home.
Variance in Quality of Opposition for each team:
ICC World Test Championship 2019-2021 |
Interested to know how teams would stack up if the same ICC Test Championship formula is applied to Test Cricket in the recent years? Find the answer here
World Cup Records
Here's a quick look at some of the most followed records in Cricket World Cups
WORLD CUP 2019 TEAMS REVIEW - PART 2 : Since ICC Champions Trophy 2017
Narrowing down the period for our Review of 2019 World Cup participants – on the basis of their Win-Loss Ratio – to last 2 years, more specifically since the last ICC event, here is a look at how teams have scored during this period.
and here’s how each team has done against other opponents since ICC Champions Trophy 2017
WORLD CUP 2019 TEAMS REVIEW - PART 1 : World Cup Runners Against Each Other Since 2015 World Cup
Right, so we are into the final week before ICC Cricket World Cup and the customary World Cup fever has just kicked in.
There’s no more Cricket to talk about for the next one week, leaving the fans around the world with nothing but ample time to take out their microscopes and analyze the teams participating in the contest through various statistical views, angles and dimensions.
Is there any right statistical view that could provide definitive evaluation of the teams participating in the World Cup 2019? The simple answer is, no – unless resorting to such methods and algorithms that become too complicated for a common fan to comprehend. Instead, there are quite a few popular views to benchmark the contestants of the World Cup.
One of such scenario is analysis of teams since the last World Cup. To make it even more relevant, let’s take look at the teams, specifically, against each other since the last World Cup, held in 2015.
That pretty much reflects the form of participating teams amongst each other in the last 4 years.
Moving on, let’s take a quick look at how teams have fared against the other 9 teams in this period, starting with Pakistan
England vs Pakistan ODI Series 2019 - Bowling Analysis
The series termed as the full-dress rehearsal of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 is over. It provided 4 days of run fest with 7 out of 8 completed innings going well above the 300 runs mark.
In such a high scoring series, bowling looked the harder of the traits and – to an extent – eventually deciding the fate of the series as well. Here’s a quick recap of bowling performance from both the teams