ICC Revamped Its Men’s T20I Ranking With 80 Teams In The Table

TPI Staff May 3, 2019

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Mumbai: In a recent development, the International Cricket Council has expanded its Men’s T20I Team Ranking Table with 80 teams, which is now in the form of a vehicle for the development of the sport to assess its progress in the recognized world body.

Pakistan, ICC T20 World Cup champions in 2009, are now on 286 points while the next four teams are within two points of each other – South Africa (262), England (261), Australia (261) and India (260).

T20I ranking table that features all Members meeting the criteria of having played six matches against other ICC members since May 2016.

The step to expand the table is following the decision of the ICC last year that on January 1, 2019, all men’s T20 matches will be classified internationally. With the ICC Women’s T20I Team Ranking, which was launched in October 2018, teams will have to play six matches against the other teams in the last three to four years to remain in the rankings table.

Rank	Team	Points
1	Pakistan	286
2	South Africa	262
3	England	261
4	Australia	261
5	India	260
6	New Zealand	254
7	Afghanistan	241
8	Sri Lanka	227
9	Windies	226
10	Bangladesh	220
11	Nepal	212
12	Scotland	199
13	Zimbabwe	192
14	Netherlands	187
15	Ireland	182
16	UAE	181
17	PNG	172
18	Oman	155
19	Hong Kong	152
20	Namibia	141
21	Qatar	129
22	Saudi Arabia	121
23	Singapore	118
24	Denmark	116
25	Canada	111
26	Jersey	106
27	Kuwait	104
28	Ghana	100
29	Kenya	95
30	Botswana	93
31	USA	84
32	Austria	73
33	Malaysia	73
34	Guernsey	68
35	Uganda	68
36	Germany	64
37	Sweden	58
38	Tanzania	56
39	Nigeria	55
40	Luxembourg	55
41	Spain	53
42	Philippines	48
43	France	45
44	Belize	42
45	Belgium	40
46	Peru	40
47	Bahrain	37
48	Mexico	36
49	Fiji	35
50	Samoa	34
51	Vanuatu	33
52	Panama	32
53	Japan	32
54	Costa Rica	32
55	Thailand	31
56	Argentina	31
57	Hungary	30
58	Mozambique	29
59	Chile	25
60	Malawi	25
61	Israel	25
62	Bhutan	23
63	Finland	22
64	South Korea	22
65	Isle of Man	21
66	Malta	14
67	Bulgaria	14
68	Sierra Leone	12
69	Brazil	12
70	Czech Republic	9
71	St Helena	9
72	Maldives	8
73	Gibraltar	4
74	Myanmar	3
75	Indonesia	0
76	China	0
77	Gambia	0
78	Swaziland	0
79	Rwanda	0
80	Lesotho	0

Eligibility for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is underway, in which five regional finals include 58 T20 matches, important movements on the rankings in the coming months means. The first finals took place in Papua New Guinea last month, while in Africa final Uganda (May 19-24), in Europe Final Guernsey (June 15-19), Asia Finals in Singapore (July 22-28) and the United States in the United States The final (August 19-25) is yet to come.

According to the statement released by ICC, Six of these teams will join the global qualifiers in hosts UAE, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, and Zimbabwe, and there will be another chance to improve their stance on the table as they try to qualify for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia

South Africa and India have switched between two and five places in the extended table, whose launch coincides with the annual ranking update, in which the results of the series are removed from 2015-16 and the results of 2016-17 and 2017-18 There is 50 percent weight.

In other important changes, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka rose one place to seventh and eighth place respectively, making the West Indies come ninth. What would be the big news for their passionate fans, Nepal has moved from 14th to 11th place, while Namibia has secured 20th position.