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Sri Lanka Starts Season As Number-One Ranked T20I Side

Reliance ICC T20 Rankings
Sri Lanka and New Zealand will launch what will be an interesting couple of months of Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) when the two sides go head to head in a one-off match at Pallekele on Tuesday 30 October.

Number-one ranked T20 batsman Brendan McCullum. Photo by Shiek Mohamed

As many as seven T20Is, featuring most of the top ranked sides, are confirmed to be played across the globe before the turn of the year, and, if Sri Lanka loses in Pallekele, then there can be a change at the top of the table on at least two occasions.

Sri Lanka, the ICC World Twenty20 2012 finalist, will start off as the number-one ranked side on the Reliance ICC T20I Championship table while New Zealand, which lost two ICC World Twenty20 2012 Super Eight stage matches in Super Overs, will begin in eighth position.

While a win will ensure that Sri Lanka will end the year as the number-one ranked T20I side, a defeat for Sri Lanka will give ICC World Twenty20 champion West Indies a sniff of the number-one position on the Reliance ICC Championship table for the first time since the launch of the current rankings system in October 2011.

In the scenario of Sri Lanka losing to New Zealand, Angelo Mathews’ side will drop six ratings points and will join Darren Sammy’s side on 121 ratings points, which means that if the West Indies beats Bangladesh on 10 December in Dhaka, then the men from the Caribbean will add the number-one ranking to their ICC World T20 title.

This may, however, turn out to be a brief stay on top of the ladder as India will leapfrog the West Indies if it defeats England in the T20Is in Pune and Mumbai on 20 and 22 December.

If India beats England 2-0, then Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s side will earn seven ratings points to move to 127 ratings points and will move five points clear of the West Indies. A one-all result will mean both India and England will retain pre-series ratings points and ratings, and will also allow the West Indies to extend its stay at the top of the table.

To find out exactly how the forthcoming T20Is will affect the Championship table, please click here. The T20I Championship table, unlike the Test Championship table, is updated after every match.

Upcoming fixtures

Sri Lanka v New Zealand
30 Oct – One-off T20I, Pallekele

Bangladesh v West Indies
10 Dec – One-off T20I, Dhaka

India v England
20 Dec – 1st T20I, Pune
22 Dec – 2nd T20I, Mumbai

South Africa v New Zealand
21 Dec – 1st T20I, Durban
23 Dec – 2nd T20I, East London
26 Dec –3rd T20I, Port Elizabeth

Reliance ICC T20I Championship

Rank   Team              Rating

1          Sri Lanka         127

2          West Indies     121

3          India                120

4          England           118

5          South Africa   117

6          Pakistan           116

7          Australia          108

8          New Zealand  97

9          Bangladesh     85

10        Ireland             82

11        Zimbabwe       44

 

Not ranked as fewer than eight T20I matches played since August 2012

Afghanistan    76

Netherlands     73

Scotland          67

Canada            11

Kenya              2

(Developed by David Kendix)

 

Reliance ICC T20 Player Rankings

Batsmen

Rank     Player              Team       Pts          Ave        S/R       HS Ranking

1           B McCullum         NZ          830         36.77     135         849 v Ban at Pallekele 2012

2           Chris Gayle           WI          810         37.65     145         831 v Aus at Colombo (RPS) 2012

3           Shane Watson      Aus         799         30.62     148         832 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2012

4           M Jayawardena   SL           775         32.21     134         785 v Aus at Pallekele 2011

5           Suresh Raina        Ind          741         33.39     136         776 v Eng at Kolkata 2011

6           David Warner       Aus         714         27.04     139         826 v WI at St Lucia 2010

7           Eoin Morgan        Eng         712         36.09     132         872 v Ind at Old Trafford 2011

8           Kevin Pietersen    Eng         709         37.93     142         882 v Aus at Barbados 2010

9           T Dilshan               SL           699         28.84     124         802 v NZ at Colombo (RPS) 2009

10         K Sangakkara      SL           687         30.00     121         763 v WI at Barbados 2010

11=       Virat Kohli            Ind          686*      38.58     129         714 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2012

Martin Guptill       NZ          686         30.79     122         793 v SA at Hamilton 2012

13         JP Duminy            SA           668         32.82     122         694 v Eng at Durham 2012

14         H Masakadza      Zim         629*      26.59     117         652 v SL at Hambantota 2012

15         Jacques Kallis       SA           624         35.05     119         738 v Eng at Durham 2012

16         Umar Akmal        Pak         610         27.96     118         709 v Zim at Harare 2011

17         G Gambhir            Ind          600         27.83     121         723 v SL at Mohali 2009

18         Yuvraj Singh        Ind          593         30.31     145         793 v SA at St Lucia 2010

19         Marlon Samuels  WI          584*!    27.72     130         584 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2012

20         Graeme Smith      SA           570         31.67     128         778 v Zim at Kimberley 2010

 

Bowlers

Rank      Player              Team       Pts           Ave      Econ      HS Ranking

1           Saeed Ajmal         Pak         770         15.82     6.13       788 v NZ at Pallekele 2012

2           Ajantha Mendis   SL           762!       10.76     5.74       762 v WI at Colombo (RPS) 2012

3           Graeme Swann    Eng         750         16.84     6.36       760 v Pak at Cardiff 2010

4           N McCullum         NZ          690         17.52     6.47       709 v Zim at Harare 2011

5           Johan Botha         SA           674         22.24     6.37       733 v NZ at Auckland 2012

6           Shane Watson      Aus         665         20.42     7.19       671 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2012

7           Shahid Afridi        Pak         656         21.16     6.22       814 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2009

8           M Hafeez              Pak         655         22.71     6.71       662 v Eng at Dubai 2012

9           Abdur Razzak      Ban        654         17.02     6.69       661 v Ire at Belfast 2012

10         Dale Steyn            SA           652         17.18     6.36       688 v WI at Antigua 2010

11         N Kulasekara       SL           648         27.13     7.44       658 v Pak at Colombo (RPS) 2012

12         Lasith Malinga     SL           640         21.35     7.48       680 v Eng at Bristol 2011

13=       Shakib Al Hasan Ban        638         22.70     6.88       658 v Ire at Belfast 2012

Sunil Narine          WI          638*!    16.68     5.97       638 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2012

15         Daniel Vettori       NZ          632         19.45     5.61       850 v Aus at Wellington 2010

16         Morne Morkel      SA           631         17.84     6.72       646 v Aus at Cape Town 2011

17         Stuart Broad         Eng         625         23.18     7.34       672 v Pak at Cardiff 2010

18=       Tim Southee         NZ          623         25.47     8.41       628 v Pak at Pallekele 2012

Angelo Mathews  SL           623!       24.04     6.63       623 v WI at Colombo (RPS) 2012

20         Trent Johnston     Ire           610         19.86     6.26       633 v Ban at Belfast 2012

 

All-rounders

Rank     Player            Team       Pts        HS Ranking

1            Shane Watson      Aus         531        557 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2012

2           M Hafeez              Pak         350        353 v SA at Colombo (RPS) 2012

3           Shahid Afridi        Pak         294        413 v NZ at Dubai 2009

4           Shakb Al Hasan  Ban        270*/ !  270 v Pak at Pallekele 2012

5           Chris Gayle           WI          266/*    290 v Ind at Barbados 2010

6           David Hussey       Aus         241/*    350 v Ind at Melbourne 2012

7           Dwayne Bravo     WI          238!       238 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2012

8           Jacques Kallis       SA           234 /*   249 v Zim at Hambantota 2012

9=        Marlon Samuels  WI          229*/*! 229 v SL at Colombo (RPS) 2012

Angelo Mathews  SL           229*/ !  229 v WI at Colombo (RPS) 2012

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