New Delhi [India], Might 1 (ANI): Worldwide Cricket Council’s (ICC) newest annual replace has reaffirmed Australia’s dominance, with the boys’s Check aspect and ladies’s ODI group retaining their positions on the prime of the world rankings.
The replace takes under consideration all matches performed since Might 2025 at full weightage, whereas outcomes from the earlier two years are counted at 50 per cent, as per the ICC web site.
The annual replace had no influence on the highest two within the Males’s Check rankings, with Australia persevering with their reign at No.1, strengthening their place with a three-point improve to 131.
Reigning World Check Champions South Africa additionally held agency at No.2, benefiting from an analogous three-point rise to 119.
India moved up one place to 3rd (104), overtaking England (102), who dropped a spot after shedding the weightage of outcomes earlier than 30 April 2023, together with residence collection wins in opposition to New Zealand and South Africa, in addition to a 3-0 triumph in Pakistan, that are now not factored into the rankings.
Pakistan (89) additionally benefited from the annual replace, leapfrogging Sri Lanka (86) after their 3-0 residence collection defeat to England dropped out of the weightage interval, together with the weightage of their 2-0 loss to Bangladesh in 2024 being halved.
West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe full the highest 10, with Eire dropping out of the rankings, having not performed the requisite eight matches within the score interval. Each Eire and Afghanistan must play two Checks every within the subsequent yr to return to the standings.
Within the Girls’s ODI Workforce Rankings, it is a comparable story, with Australia persevering with to paved the way. Regardless of a slight dip of two score factors to 163, their dominance stays intact, with England (128) nonetheless trailing by a major margin regardless of a two-point acquire.
The highest six stay unchanged, with India (126), South Africa (100), New Zealand (93) and Sri Lanka (89) all holding on to their respective positions.
Bangladesh (73) have moved as much as seventh after overtaking Pakistan (72). In the meantime, Thailand and the Netherlands have dropped out of the rankings for now, having not met the requirement of eight ODIs prior to now three years.
Thailand must play another ODI, whereas the Netherlands require two extra matches to regain their rankings.
The annual rankings updates proceed within the coming week, with the Males’s and Girls’s T20I rankings set to be introduced on 5 Might, adopted by the Males’s ODI Workforce Rankings replace on 7 Might. (ANI)
