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ICC Test Championship Table

Rank Team Series played Won Lost Drawn Points Avg
1   South Africa 17 13 3 1 27 1.59
2   Australia 13 9 2 2 20 1.54
3   New Zealand 17 8 5 4 20 1.18
4   Sri Lanka 16 8 6 2 18 1.13
5   England 16 6 6 4 16 1.00
6   India 15 5 6 4 14 0.93
7   West Indies 17 7 9 1 15 0.88
8   Pakistan 16 4 8 4 12 0.75
9   Zimbabwe 16 3 11 2 8 0.50
10   Bangladesh 7 0 7 0 0 -

Updated: January 8, 2003.

ICC ODI Championship Table

Rank Team Played Points Rating
1   Australia 46 6269 136
2   South Africa 53 6501 123
3   Pakistan 45 4951 110
4   Sri Lanka 57 6157 108
5   India 54 5574 103
6   West Indies 35 3463 99
7   New Zealand 45 4431 98
8   England 34 3337 98
9   Zimbabwe 40 2503 63
10   Kenya 22 654 30
11   Bangladesh 19 119 6

Updated: March 24, 2003.


       100+ years after Test cricket was first played, comes the World Test Championship.

It is not the most perfect of formats, as critics have been at some pains to point out. But it is a start -- and the single biggest point in its favour is that it takes international schedules out of the realm of ad-hocism.

Thus, in the past, an England, say, would play Australia five times a year and Sri Lanka maybe once in five years. An India, meanwhile, would play twice as many one dayers as anyone else, and then try and fit in a Test if nothing more lucrative beckoned.

That stops. With the introduction of the World Test Championships, the ICC takes upon itself the onus of drawing up international cricketing schedules. And immediately, it brings about a situation whereby each of the recognised Test nations mandatorily plays all others, both at home and away, at least twice in ten years.

So who is playing who, and when? How many times will India play Australia, say, over the next ten years? What is India's Test schedule like for next year?

Questions, questions -- and an interactive calendar that gives you all the answers.

Use, and enjoy.

Design: Imran Shaikh





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