Pakistan & India Dethroned from Number 1 T20I & Test Rankings After Over 2 Years

Pakistan’s reign as the best T20I team is finally over as they have now slipped to 4th spot in the updated ICC rankings for the shortest format. The change in ratings is due to the fact that ICC’s annual rankings update in May no longer counts points from the 2016-17 season while also reduces the weightage of matches played up to May 2019.

Replacing Pakistan at the top is Australia with 278 points followed by England and India with 268 and 266 points.

Pakistan (260) is closely followed by South Africa with 258 points. Pakistan gained the top T20I spot back in 2018 under the captaincy of Sarfaraz Ahmed, however, 2019 was not a good year for the Men in Green as they lost most of their matches.

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Australia have also clinched the top position in ICC Test rankings after a brilliant year and a half in the longest format. Previously, India were the top team in Test cricket who have been dethroned for the first time since October 2016.

Here are the updated rankings:

T20I

Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	Australia	19	5,285	278
2	England	17	4,564	268
3	India	35	9,319	266
4	Pakistan	21	5,470	260
5	South Africa	17	4,380	258
6	New Zealand	23	5,565	242
7	Sri Lanka	23	5,293	230
8	Bangladesh	20	4,583	229
9	West Indies	24	5,499	229
10	Afghanistan	17	3,882	228

Test

Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	Australia	26	3,028	116
2	New Zealand	21	2,406	115
3	India	27	3,085	114
4	England	33	3,466	105
5	Sri Lanka	27	2,454	91
6	South Africa	23	2,076	90
7	Pakistan	16	1,372	86
8	West Indies	18	1,422	79
9	Bangladesh	17	939	55
10	Zimbabwe	8	144	18

Pakistan is placed at the 7th position in the Test rankings with 86 points, 4 short of the 6th-rated South Africa.

ODIs

England have retained their top spot in the ODI rankings, which they earned after their World Cup triumph back in 2019. Here are the top 10 teams in ODI cricket right now:

Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	England	38	4,820	127
2	India	49	5,819	119
3	New Zealand	32	3,716	116
4	South Africa	31	3,345	108
5	Australia	33	3,518	107
6	Pakistan	32	3,254	102
7	Bangladesh	34	2,989	88
8	Sri Lanka	39	3,297	85
9	West Indies	43	3,285	76
10	Afghanistan	28	1,549	55

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