The longer Pakistan have to stay on the cricket field, the worse they seem to get. That's why they are T20 champions, but hugely disappointing in Test cricket.
After the bad 2-0 series loss in Sri Lanka (46.23), Pakistan (37.40) are dropping badly in the Rediff Test Rankings.
Bangladesh (8.72) gained over three points after their clean 2-0 sweep in the Caribbeans, but they still have a huge mountain to climb in Test cricket.
Australia (77.91) will stay on top even if they lose the fifth Ashes Test. They are still a great Test side.
The latest Rediff Test Rankings appear in Table A.
| TABLE A: Final Rankings (as on August 15, 2009) |
| Country | Performance index (RBI) | Diff: 7.7.09 -> 15.8.09 | Rank |
| Australia | 77.91 | -0.17 | 1 |
| India | 62.67 | -1.09 | 2 |
| South Africa | 62.41 | -0.73 | 3 |
| England | 49.20 | -0.51 | 4 |
| Sri Lanka | 46.23 | +3.87 | 5 |
| Pakistan | 37.40 | -3.27 | 6 |
| New Zealand | 34.52 | +0.47 | 7 |
| West Indies | 27.63 | -0.88 | 8 |
| Zimbabwe | 12.36 | +0.67 | 9 |
| Bangladesh | 8.72 | +3.15 | 10 |
The current Reliance Mobile ICC Test rankings (as on August 15, 2009) are: Australia (124), South Africa (122), Sri Lanka (119), India (119), England (99), Pakistan (84), New Zealand (82), West Indies (76), Bangladesh (13) and Zimbabwe (12?).
The current home-away points tally of Test-playing teams is shown in Table B.
| TABLE B: Test Score Card (as on August 15, 2009) |
| A W A Y | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aus | Ban | Eng | Ind | NZ | Pak | RSA | SL | WI | Zim | ||
| H O M E |
Australia | 2 / 2 2 / 2 |
2 / 5 5 / 5 |
1 / 4 2.5 / 4 |
2.5 / 3 2 / 2 |
3 / 3 3 / 3 |
2 / 3 1 / 3 |
3 / 3 2 / 2 |
2.5/3 3 / 3 |
1 / 1 2 / 2 | |
| Bangladesh | 0 / 2 0 / 2 |
0 / 2 0 / 2 |
- 0.5 / 2 |
0 / 2 0.5 / 2 |
0 / 3 0 / 2 |
0 / 2 0 / 2 |
0 / 3 0 / 2 |
2 / 2 0 / 2 |
0.5 / 2 1.5 / 2 | ||
| England | 0 / 5 3 / 5 |
2 / 2 2 / 2 |
0.5 / 2 1 / 3 |
2 / 3 2.5/3 |
0.5 / 3 3.5 / 4 |
3 / 5 1.5 / 4 |
1 / 3 1.5 / 3 |
2 / 5 2 / 2 |
1 / 2 2 / 2 | ||
| India | 1.5 / 4 3 / 4 |
1.5 / 2 - |
2 / 3 1.5 / 2 |
2 / 3 1 / 2 |
1 / 3 2 / 3 |
1 / 3 1.5 / 3 |
1 / 3 2.5 / 3 |
2.5 / 4 2.5 / 3 |
2 / 2 2 / 2 | ||
| New Zealand | 0 / 2 0.5 / 3 |
1.5 / 2 2 / 2 |
0.5/3 1 / 3 |
1 / 2 1 / 3 |
0 / 1 0.5 / 2 |
0 / 2 1.5 / 3 |
1 / 2 1 / 2 |
1.5 / 2 1 / 2 |
2 / 2 0.5 / 1 | ||
| Pakistan | 0 / 3 0 / 3 |
2 / 2 3 / 3 |
0.5 / 4 2.5 / 3 |
1 / 3 2 / 3 |
1.5 / 2 1 / 1 |
1 / 3 0.5 / 2 |
0.5 / 3 1 / 2 |
1 / 2 2.5 / 3 |
2 / 2 1 / 3 | ||
| South Africa | 2 / 3 1 / 3 |
2 / 2 2 / 2 |
2.5 / 4 2 / 5 |
1.5 / 3 2 / 3 |
1.5 / 3 2 / 2 |
1.5 / 2 2 / 3 |
0 / 2 2 / 2 |
3 / 4 2 / 3 |
1 / 1 2 / 2 | ||
| Sri Lanka | 0 / 2 0 / 3 |
2 / 2 3 / 3 |
1.5 / 3 2 / 3 |
0.5 / 3 2 / 3 |
1 / 2 1 / 2 |
1 / 2 2.5 / 3 |
0 / 2 2 / 2 |
1 / 2 2 / 2 |
2 / 2 3 / 3 | ||
| West Indies | 0 / 3 0.5/3 |
2 / 2 0 / 2 |
0 / 2 3 / 5 |
0.5 / 3 1.5 / 4 |
1 / 2 0.5 / 2 |
0 / 2 1 / 2 |
1 / 3 1 / 4 |
0 / 2 1 / 2 |
1.5 / 2 2 / 2 | ||
| Zimbabwe | 0 / 2 0 / 1 |
0.5 / 2 1.5 / 2 |
0 / 2 1 / 2 |
0 / 2 0 / 2 |
0.5 / 1 0 / 2 |
2 / 3 0 / 2 |
0 / 2 0 / 1 |
0 / 3 0 / 2 |
0 / 2 0.5 / 2 |
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Table C summarizes the home-away series win record of all the nine Test playing countries and Zimbabwe. Note that this table lists statistics relating to Test series, not individual Test matches.
| TABLE C: Series 'win-draw-loss' record (with 'home'-'away' break-up) (as on August 15, 2009) | *No India-Bangladesh series so far in India |
| Country | No of home wins | No of away wins | Total wins | No of home draws | No of away draws | Total draws | No of home losses | No of away losses | Total losses |
| Australia | 8 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7* | 15* |
| England | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| India | 6* | 5 | 11* | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| South Africa | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Sri Lanka | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| West Indies | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
Our next update will appear after the Ashes series and the Sri Lanka's home series against New Zealand.
