The International Cricket Council has disclosed the expanded MRF Tyres Ranking Table with eighty (80) teams for the ICC Men’s Twenty20.
Luckily, Pakistan has topped the table with the teams from all the five regions. It has also been ranked in among the most accessible form of the game. It has a wide record of point as compared to the rest of the teams.
Pakistan, known as the ICC T20 World Cup 2009 champion has reached the 286 points currently.
While South Africa is in second place with 262 points, England on the third position with 261, Australia with 261 and India with 260 points are on fourth and fifth position respectively in the T20 Ranking.
Moreover, New Zealand possessing 254 points is on the sixth place and Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are placed on seventh and eighth positions with 241 & 227 points respectively.
However, West Indies has swapped to ninth place with 226 points. While Nepal giving its passionate fans a big new has come up from fourth to eleventh place possessing 212 points and Namibia has gained the 20th position with 141 points.
Further, detail for the rest of the teams is mentioned in the table below:
MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings (as on 3 May)
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 The 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
(*Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Cameroon, and Bermuda have also played matches but not enough to be on the T20I points table)
It is worth mentioning here that the decision of expanding the table of ICC Men’s T20I World Cup was taken by the ICC last year which states that the all the Men’s T20 matches between the members will be classified as internationals from the 1st January 2019 onwards.
Further, 58 T20 matches are included in this qualification procedure for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup crosswise over the five regional final which is probably going to mean noteworthy developments on the rankings over the coming months.
The first final was held in the last month in Papua New Guinea whilst the four other finals are still awaited to come, which include, The Africa Final on 24th May 2019 in Uganda, the Europe final in Guernsey as on 19th June 2019 and the Asia final and the Americas finals are on 28th July 2019 and 25th August 2019 in Singapore and the USA respectively.
The teams still have a golden chance in the global qualifier to improve their ranking to be qualified for the future World Cup to be held in Australia in 2020 (ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020).
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