ICC ODI Championship preview: England v Pakistan
A successful summer on home soil, starting with the first NatWest Challenge match against Pakistan at Old Trafford on 17th June, could propel England from eighth to third place in the ICC ODI Championship table
ICC Media Release
13-Jun-2003
England could climb five places this summer
A successful summer on home soil, starting with the first NatWest Challenge match against Pakistan at Old Trafford on 17th June, could propel England from eighth to third place in the ICC ODI Championship table.
England - currently eighth in the table - goes into its first One-Day International matches since the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 with the potential to climb rapidly up the ratings.
A 3-0 victory over Pakistan would boost England's rating to 103 - higher than it has been since the table was launched in October 2002 and good enough to climb ahead of New Zealand and level with West Indies.
If this form were to continue in the NatWest Series against Zimbabwe and South Africa, England could also overtake West Indies, India, Sri Lanka and even Pakistan in what is one of the quietest periods of the international cricket calendar.
Pakistan, on the other hand, needs a winning series to maintain a firm hold on third position in the table. A 3-0 victory for the visitors would see Pakistan's lead over fourth-placed Sri Lanka extended to six points but a 3-0 defeat would reduce the gap to only one point.
ICC ODI Championship table (correct on 12th June 2003)
Team Matches Points Rating 1. Australia 53 7013 132 2. South Africa 57 6972 122 3. Pakistan 54 5930 110 4. Sri Lanka 67 7132 106 5. India 58 6047 104 6. West Indies 45 4637 103 7. New Zealand 50 5027 101 8. England 34 3337 98 9. Zimbabwe 44 2844 65 10. Kenya 25 704 28 11. Bangladesh 23 101 4
Developed by David Kendix
Anyone can predict the impact future results will have on the ratings by visiting the official ICC website, www.icc.cricket.org.
Gundappa Viswanath from the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Referees will officiate on the series and Darrell Hair from the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires will stand in all three matches.
How the ICC ODI table works:
The formula used by the ICC to determine team Ranking positions takes into account the following factors:
- results from all ODI matches played over the previous two to three years
- strength of opposition, with greater reward for beating higher ranked opponents
- greater importance is placed on more recent results, with older matches dropped every 12 months
- all matches have equal status, with no account taken of venue or margin of victory
The match points awarded are then divided by the number of matches played in the valid period to produce a rating.
For the full formula and to predict the impact of future matches on the ratings visit www.icc.cricket.org.
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