ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings

This article is about the ranking scheme. Not to be confused with ICC World Twenty20.

ICC T20 Rankings

File:ICCranking logo.png ICC T20 Championship logo
Administrator	International Cricket Council
Format	Twenty20 International
First edition	2012
Latest edition	ongoing
Tournament format	notional (ongoing points accumulation through all matches played)
Number of teams	17
Current champion	Sri Lanka (126 rating)
Most successful	Sri Lanka (32 months)

The ICC T20 Championship is an international Twenty20 cricket competition run by the International Cricket Council. The competition is notional in that it is simply a ranking scheme overlaid on the regular T20I match schedule. After every T20I match, the two teams involved receive points based on a mathematical formula. The total of each team's points total is divided by the total number of matches to give a rating, and all teams are ranked on a table in order of rating.

As of 5 January 2015, Sri Lanka lead the ICC T20I Championship with a rating of 131.

Qualification

According to the ICC website, "Only teams who have completed at least eight T20 international matches since 1st August between three and four years ago will have their rating above converted into a ranking on the main table."

Points

The calculations for the Table are performed as follows:

• Each team scores points based on the results of their matches.
• Each team's rating is equal to its total points scored divided by the total matches played. (Series are not significant in these calculations).
• A match only counts if played in the last three years.
• Matches played in the first year of the three-year limit count one-third; matches played in the second year count two-thirds; matches played in the last year count fully; essentially, recent matches are given higher weighting.
• To determine a team's rating after a particular match:
  • Determine the match result (win, loss, or tie)
  • Calculate the match points scored:
    • If the gap between the ratings of the two teams at the commencement of the match is fewer than 40 points, then:
      • The winner scores 50 points more than the opponent's rating
      • The loser scores 50 points fewer than the opponent's rating
      • Each team in a tie scores the opponent's rating
    • If the gap between the ratings of the two teams at the commencement of the match is more than or equal to 40 points, then :
      • The winner, if it is the stronger team, scores 10 points more than its own rating
      • The winner, if it is the weaker team, scores 90 points more than its own rating
      • The loser, if it is the stronger team, scores 90 points fewer than its own rating
      • The loser, if it is the weaker team, scores 10 points fewer than its own rating
      • The stronger team in a tie scores 40 points fewer than its own rating
      • The weaker team in a tie scores 40 points more than its own rating
  • Add the match points scored to the points already scored (in previous matches as reflected by the table) and determine the new rating. However, matches (and the points) which do not lie in last three year range will have to be removed.

• Points earned by teams depend on the opponents ratings, therefore this system needed to assign base ratings to teams when it started.

Current rankings

ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
India	70	18,747	268
Australia	48	12,417	259
England	45	11,497	255
West Indies	59	14,587	247
South Africa	46	11,345	247
New Zealand	51	12,578	247
Pakistan	54	12,758	236
Sri Lanka	45	10,467	233
Bangladesh	56	12,797	229
Afghanistan	42	9,322	222
Ireland	49	9,629	197
Zimbabwe	57	11,182	196
Scotland	27	5,151	191
Netherlands	28	5,131	183
Namibia	41	7,456	183
United Arab Emirates	58	10,389	179
Nepal	46	7,852	171
United States	30	5,010	167
Oman	50	7,807	155
Papua New Guinea	31	4,472	144
Canada	28	3,914	140
Uganda	74	10,041	136
Hong Kong	47	6,173	131
Kuwait	47	5,909	126
Malaysia	50	6,123	122
Jersey	26	3,063	118
Bahrain	47	5,518	117
Qatar	34	3,900	115
Bermuda	19	2,148	113
Spain	22	2,442	111
Italy	18	1,944	108
Saudi Arabia	41	4,409	108
Kenya	56	5,870	105
Tanzania	47	4,301	92
Germany	32	2,860	89
Nigeria	49	3,835	78
Guernsey	23	1,759	76
Singapore	29	2,217	76
Norway	20	1,444	72
Cayman Islands	17	1,204	71
Denmark	25	1,711	68
Portugal	17	1,071	63
Cambodia	28	1,745	62
Isle of Man	14	857	61
Japan	36	2,174	60
Belgium	29	1,710	59
Austria	30	1,691	56
France	24	1,325	55
Switzerland	17	934	55
Botswana	38	1,976	52
Argentina	17	807	47
Cook Islands	9	426	47
Romania	28	1,316	47
Malawi	30	1,369	46
Thailand	34	1,549	46
Sweden	17	770	45
Finland	21	950	45
Bahamas	16	716	45
Czech Republic	19	809	43
Vanuatu	22	884	40
Philippines	24	894	37
Mozambique	21	751	36
Fiji	11	387	35
Rwanda	82	2,872	35
Samoa	11	357	32
Ghana	33	1,045	32
Estonia	19	597	31
Indonesia	46	1,444	31
Sierra Leone	30	840	28
Luxembourg	28	753	27
Malta	46	1,191	26
Israel	7	178	25
Belize	11	230	21
Gibraltar	31	615	20
Hungary	17	336	20
Slovenia	8	150	19
Cyprus	17	272	16
Suriname	8	119	15
Brazil	9	131	15
Bhutan	27	359	13
Panama	17	214	13
Mexico	17	214	13
Croatia	17	167	10
Eswatini	22	212	10
Maldives	31	234	8
Saint Helena	8	53	7
Cameroon	15	99	7
China	11	53	5
Bulgaria	25	96	4
Serbia	22	70	3
Lesotho	16	3	0
Mongolia	14	0	0
Turkey	9	0	0
South Korea	8	0	0
Seychelles	10	0	0
Myanmar	19	0	0
Mali	11	0	0
Greece	8	0	0
Gambia	9	0	0
References: ICC T20I rankings, As of 21 December 2024
"Matches" is the number of matches played in the 12–24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that.

Historical ICC T20I Champions

This table lists the teams that have successively held the highest rating since the T20I ranking was introduced.

Country	Start	End	Duration	Highest Rating
England	24 October 2011	March 2012	6 months	140
South Africa	March 2012	September 2012	7 months	130
Sri Lanka	September 2012	28 March 2014	19 months	134
India	28 March 2014	3 April 2014	6 days	130
Sri Lanka	3 April 2014	4 April 2014	1 day	131
India	4 April 2014	6 April 2014	2 days	132
Sri Lanka	6 April 2014	1 May 2014	1 month	133
India	1 May 2014	6 September 2014	4 months	131
Sri Lanka	7 September 2014	–	–	135

External links

• ICC Test, ODI and T20I Championship Rankings