Although India currently top the official Reliance Mobile ICC Test Rankings, and MahendraSinghDhoni has even received a mace for this achievement, Australia continue to stay on top of the Test Rankings.
There's a simple enough explanation for this: the ICC and Test rankings are calculated based on different formulae accords the highest weightage to recently won Test matches; the rankings consider a much wider window spanning the most recent home-away series between every pair of teams.
So while India's recent Ttest form is excellent, Australia has still done much more if we look at the Test results in the past few years.
The Test Rankings, as 2009 draws to a close, appear in Table A. Australia (77.49), India (62.83), South Africa (61.98) and England (49.00) occupy the top four places.
This update covers England's 2-1 Ashes win in England, Sri Lanka's 2-0 home win against NewZealand India's 2-0 home win against SriLanka, Pakistan's 1-1 drawn series in NewZealand and Australia's 2-0 win at home against West Indies to retain the Sir FrankWorrell Trophy.
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The current Reliance Mobile ICC Test rankings (as on December 29, 2009) are: India (124), South Africa (122), Australia (116), SriLanka (115), England (105), Pakistan (83), NewZealand (81), West Indies (77), Bangladesh (13) and Zimbabwe (12?). It seems a little curious that Australia and Sri Lanka appear to be at par.
The current home-away points tally of Test-playing teams is shown in Table B.
-- How the rankings work...
Table C summarizes the home-away series win record of all the nine Test playing countries and Zimbabwe. Note that this table lists statistics relating to Test series, not individual Test matches.
Our next update will appear after the Australia-Pakistan series Down Under and South Africa's home series against England.
There's a simple enough explanation for this: the ICC and Test rankings are calculated based on different formulae accords the highest weightage to recently won Test matches; the rankings consider a much wider window spanning the most recent home-away series between every pair of teams.
So while India's recent Ttest form is excellent, Australia has still done much more if we look at the Test results in the past few years.
The Test Rankings, as 2009 draws to a close, appear in Table A. Australia (77.49), India (62.83), South Africa (61.98) and England (49.00) occupy the top four places.
This update covers England's 2-1 Ashes win in England, Sri Lanka's 2-0 home win against NewZealand India's 2-0 home win against SriLanka, Pakistan's 1-1 drawn series in NewZealand and Australia's 2-0 win at home against West Indies to retain the Sir FrankWorrell Trophy.
| TABLE A: Final Rankings (as on December 29, 2009) |
| Country | Performance index (RBI) | Diff: 15.8.09 -> 29.12.09 | Rank |
| Australia | 77.49 | -0.42 | 1 |
| India | 62.83 | +0.16 | 2 |
| South Africa | 61.98 | -0.43 | 3 |
| England | 49.00 | -0.20 | 4 |
| Sri Lanka | 48.13 | +1.90 | 5 |
| Pakistan | 36.82 | -0.58 | 6 |
| New Zealand | 31.82 | -2.70 | 7 |
| West Indies | 29.46 | +1.83 | 8 |
| Zimbabwe | 12.50 | +0.14 | 9 |
| Bangladesh | 8.57 | -0.15 | 10 |
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 December 29, 2009) |
| A W A Y | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aus | Ban | Eng | Ind | NZ | Pak | RSA | SL | WI | Zim | ||
| H O M E | Australia | 2 / 2 2 / 2 | 2 / 5 5 / 5 | 1 / 4 2.5 / 4 | 2.5 / 3 2 / 2 | 3 / 3 3 / 3 | 2 / 3 1 / 3 | 3 / 3 2 / 2 | 2.5/3 2.5 / 3 | 1 / 1 2 / 2 | |
| Bangladesh | 0 / 2 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 0 / 2 | - 0.5 / 2 | 0 / 2 0.5 / 2 | 0 / 3 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 0 / 2 | 2 / 2 0 / 2 | 0.5 / 2 1.5 / 2 | ||
| England | 0 / 5 3 / 5 | 2 / 2 2 / 2 | 0.5 / 2 1 / 3 | 2 / 3 2.5/3 | 0.5 / 3 3.5 / 4 | 3 / 5 1.5 / 4 | 1 / 3 1.5 / 3 | 2 / 5 2 / 2 | 1 / 2 2 / 2 | ||
| India | 1.5 / 4 3 / 4 | 1.5 / 2 - | 2 / 3 1.5 / 2 | 2 / 3 1 / 2 | 1 / 3 2 / 3 | 1 / 3 1.5 / 3 | 1 / 3 2.5 / 3 | 2.5 / 4 2.5 / 3 | 2 / 2 2 / 2 | ||
| New Zealand | 0 / 2 0.5 / 3 | 1.5 / 2 2 / 2 | 0.5/3 1 / 3 | 1 / 2 1 / 3 | 0 / 1 1.5 / 3 | 0 / 2 1.5 / 3 | 0 / 2 1 / 2 | 1.5 / 2 1 / 2 | 2 / 2 0.5 / 1 | ||
| Pakistan | 0 / 3 0 / 3 | 2 / 2 3 / 3 | 0.5 / 4 2.5 / 3 | 1 / 3 2 / 3 | 1.5 / 3 1 / 1 | 1 / 3 0.5 / 2 | 0.5 / 3 1 / 2 | 1 / 2 2.5 / 3 | 2 / 2 1 / 3 | ||
| South Africa | 2 / 3 1 / 3 | 2 / 2 2 / 2 | 2.5 / 4 2 / 5 | 1.5 / 3 2 / 3 | 1.5 / 3 2 / 2 | 1.5 / 2 2 / 3 | 0 / 2 2 / 2 | 3 / 4 2 / 3 | 1 / 1 2 / 2 | ||
| Sri Lanka | 0 / 2 0 / 3 | 2 / 2 3 / 3 | 1.5 / 3 2 / 3 | 0.5 / 3 2 / 3 | 1 / 2 2 / 2 | 1 / 2 2.5 / 3 | 0 / 2 2 / 2 | 1 / 2 2 / 2 | 2 / 2 3 / 3 | ||
| West Indies | 0.5 / 3 0.5/3 | 2 / 2 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 3 / 5 | 0.5 / 3 1.5 / 4 | 1 / 2 0.5 / 2 | 0 / 2 1 / 2 | 1 / 3 1 / 4 | 0 / 2 1 / 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: Series 'win-draw-loss' record (with 'home'-'away' break-up) (as on December 29, 2009) | *No India-Bangladesh series so far in India |
| 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 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7* | 15* |
| England | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| India | 6* | 5 | 11* | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| South Africa | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Sri Lanka | 8 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| West Indies | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
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