Dubai [UAE], Could 5 (ANI): India, which turned the first-ever facet to retain its ICC Males’s T20 World Cup title this yr, beneath the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, is on the pole place of the annual ICC Males’s T20I Staff Rankings.
The newest rankings price all matches performed since Could 2025 at 100 per cent and people of the earlier two years at 50 per cent. Sitting at 275 factors, India sees their lead over England (262 factors) trimmed by merely one level, whereas Australia are positioned nearer to England in third place with 258 factors, as per ICC.
This replace is somewhat shock for the Asian facet, who’ve dominated the format during the last two years. They’ve claimed the Males’s T20 World Cups in 2024 and 2026, and have been undefeated in all of the T20I collection between these two occasions.
The highest seven positions within the Males’s Rankings are unchanged, with New Zealand (247 factors), South Africa (244 factors), Pakistan (240) and West Indies (233) following up.
Past that, a drop of six ranking factors for Sri Lanka sees them slip downwards to the ninth spot, whereas Bangladesh (225 factors), which gained one level within the replace are up at eighth. Afghanistan are merely one level away from Sri Lanka at tenth with 220 factors, whereas Zimbabwe and Eire additionally retain their ranks at eleventh and twelfth.
Cricket’s rising pressure in North America, the USA have leapfrogged two spots after gaining six factors, and see themselves rise to the thirteenth place, overtaking the Netherlands and Scotland, who’re at 14th and fifteenth ranks respectively. Namibia was unchanged at sixteenth place whereas Nepal (seventeenth) and Oman (nineteenth) jumped a spot every, overtaking UAE (18th) and Canada (twentieth) respectively.
T20 World Cup debutants Italy gained 11 factors and gained three spots from twenty sixth to the twenty third rank. The European facet managed to safe a superb win of their very first outing on the T20 World Cup, securing a 10-wicket win over Nepal.
The variety of groups within the rankings is down from 102 to 98 as Fiji, Gambia, Greece and Israel didn’t make the lower as they didn’t play the requisite eight T20Is up to now three years. (ANI)
