ICC T20I Rankings | India slip to fifth position as Pakistan top table

ICC T20I Rankings | India slip to fifth position as Pakistan top table

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In the new expanded men's Twenty20 International team rankings released by ICC, which has as many as 80 teams, India have slipped from the second to the fifth spot. In other spots, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka have moved to seventh and eighth rankings while Windies have dropped to the ninth position.

The launch of the table has coincided with the annual rankings update from which the series results from 2015-16 have been removed while 50 per cent of the results from 2016-17 and 2017-18 are taken. The idea of the ranking has been to let every minor team, recognized by the world body, gauge their progress.

India (260) saw themselves plummeting to the fifth position from second as they swapped position with South Africa (262), while England (261) and Australia (261) sit on third and fourth. The team leading is Pakistan with a whopping 286 points.

Among the other sides, Nepal have moved from 14th to the 11th position while Namibia have taken the 20th position. Other sides like Austria, Botswana, Luxembourg, and Mozambique are featuring in the first men's T20I ranking table for the first time after they met ICC’s criteria of playing six matches against other members since May 2016.

In the ICC Women's T20I team rankings table, which was launched last year in October, the teams have also been asked to play six matches against other teams in the previous three to four years to keep a place on the rankings table.

ICC men's T20 World Cup qualifiers are underway and it includes 58 T20I matches across five regional finals, which could see some huge movement on the rankings table in the coming months. One of the regional finals have already been held in Papua New Guinea last month. While the Africa final would be held in Uganda (19-24 May), the Europe final in Guernsey (15-19 June), the Asia final in Singapore (22-28 July), and the Americas final would be in the USA (19-25 August).

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