Wednesday, 20 June 2007

India eye second place

The Rediff Test rankings doesn't look very different after India's 1-0 away win over Bangladesh and England's 3-0 home win against England. This is because the series outcomes were quite similar when these teams clashed last time (India had won 2-0 and England 4-0).

The forthcoming India-England series could return a more interesting verdict, especially if India improve on the 1-1 series result in 2002. An away series victory could well take India to the second place.

The current Rediff Test rankings appear in Table A.

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TABLE A: Final Rankings (as on Jun 20, 2007)
Country Performance index (RBI) Difference 1.2.07 --> 20.6.07 Rank
Australia 77.69 +0.16 1
England 53.29 -0.07 2
India 52.23 +0.07 3
South Africa 46.62 +0.18 4
Pakistan 43.40 +0.27 5
Sri Lanka 39.25 +0.17 6
New Zealand 35.99 +0.32 7
West Indies 28.99 +1.49 8
Zimbabwe 13.81 +0.14 9
Bangladesh 4.80 +1.37 10

Bangladesh's Test record is still very poor; that's why even a drawn match against India sends their rating up.

The current LG ICC Test rankings (as on June 20, 2007) are: Australia (135), England (114), Pakistan (108), India (107), Sri Lanka (102), South Africa (102), New Zealand (93), West Indies (72) and Zimbabwe (28) and Bangladesh (1).

The current home-away points tally of Test-playing teams is shown in Table B.
-- How the rankings work...

TABLE B: Test Score Card (as on June 20, 2007)

 A W A Y
Aus Ban Eng Ind NZ Pak RSA SL WI Zim
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O

M

E		 Australia
2 / 2
2 / 2
 2 / 5
4 / 5
 2.5 / 4
2 / 4
 2.5 / 3
2 / 2
 3 / 3
3 / 3
 3 / 3
2.5 / 3
 3 / 3
1.5 / 2		 3 / 4
3 / 3
 1 / 1
2 / 2
Bangladesh 0 / 2
0 / 2
0 / 2
0 / 2
 -
0.5 / 2
 0 / 2
0 / 2
 0 / 3
0 / 2
 0 / 2
0 / 2
 0 / 2
0 / 2
 0.5 / 2
0 / 2
 0.5 / 2
1.5 / 2
England 1 / 5
3 / 5
 2 / 2
2 / 2
1.5 / 3
2 / 4
 1.5 / 3
3 / 3
 0.5 / 3
3.5 / 4
 3 / 5
2.5 / 5
 1 / 3
1.5 / 3		 3.5 / 4
3.5 / 4
 1 / 2
2 / 2
India 2 / 4
1.5 / 4
 1.5 / 2
2 / 2
 2 / 4
1.5 / 3
0 / 2
1 / 2
 1 / 3
1.5 / 3
 1 / 3
1.5 / 2
 1 / 3
2.5 / 3
 2.5 / 4
2.5 / 3		 2 / 2
2 / 2
New Zealand 0 / 2
0.5 / 3
 2 / 2
2 / 2
 0 / 3
1.5 / 3
 1 / 2
2 / 2
0 / 1
0.5 / 2
 0.5 / 3
1.5 / 3
 1 / 2
1 / 2
 1.5 / 2
2 / 2
 2 / 2
0.5 / 1
Pakistan 0 / 3
0 / 3
 2 / 2
3 / 3
 0.5 / 4
2.5 / 3
 1.5 / 3
2 / 3		 1.5 / 2
1 / 1
1 / 3
1.5 / 2
 1.5 / 2
1 / 2
 1 / 2
2.5 / 3
 2 / 2
1 / 3
South Africa 0.5 / 3
0 / 3
 2 / 2
2 / 2
 2.5 / 5
2 / 5
 0.5 / 2
2 / 3
 1.5 / 3
2.5 / 3
 0.5 / 2
2 / 3
0 / 2
2 / 2
 3 / 4
3.5 / 4
 1 / 1
2 / 2
Sri Lanka 0.5 / 2
0 / 3
 2 / 2
2 / 2
 1.5 / 3
2 / 3
 0.5 / 3
2 / 3
 1 / 2
1 / 2
 1 / 2
0.5 / 2
 0 / 2
2 / 2
0.5 / 2
2 / 2		 2 / 2
3 / 3
West Indies 0 / 3
1 / 4
 2 / 2
1.5 / 2
 0.5 / 4
0.5 / 4
 0.5 / 3
1.5 / 4
 0.5 / 3
0.5 / 2		 0 / 2
1 / 2
 0.5 / 4
1 / 4
 0 / 2
1.5 / 2
1.5 / 2
2 / 2
Zimbabwe 0 / 2
0 / 1
 0.5 / 2
1.5 / 2
 0 / 2
1 / 2
 0 / 2
0 / 2
 0.5 / 1
0 / 2
 2 / 3
0 / 2
 0 / 2
0 / 1
 0 / 3
0 / 2
 0 / 2
0.5 / 2

Table C summarizes the home-away series win record of all the ten Test playing countries.

TABLE C: Series 'win-draw-loss' record (with 'home'-'away' break-up)
(as on June 20, 2007)
Country No of home wins No of away wins Total wins No of home draws No of away draws Total draws No of home losses No of away losses Total losses
Australia 8 8 16 1 0 1 0 1 1
Bangladesh 1 0 1 0 0 0 8 9 17
England 6 3 9 3 3 6 0 3 3
India 5 3 8 3 2 5 1 4 5
New Zealand 3 3 6 4 2 6 2 4 6
Pakistan 6 4 10 1 2 3 2 3 5
South Africa 7 3 10 0 2 2 2 4 6
Sri Lanka 6 2 8 1 3 4 2 4 6
West Indies 3 2 5 1 0 1 5 7 12
Zimbabwe 1 1 2 1 1 2 7 7 14

We now await the Sri Lanka-Bangladesh series in Sri Lanka.

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