ICC T20I Championship

The ICC T20I Championship is the world ranking list in Twenty20 - Cricket of the world association ICC .

Ranking

ICC T20I Championship
rank	team	Games	Points	Rating
1	Pakistan	39	5280	135
2	India	47	5727	122
3	England	25th	3036	121
4th	Australia	30th	3613	120
5	South Africa	28	3366	120
6th	New Zealand	29	3367	116
7th	West Indies	30th	2932	98
8th	Afghanistan	30th	2798	93
9	Sri Lanka	33	2787	84
10	Bangladesh	30th	2321	77
11	Scotland	18th	1092	61
12	Zimbabwe	20th	1097	55
13	Netherlands	15th	777	52
14th	Nepal	7th	303	43
15th	Ver. Arab. Emirates	16	681	43
16	Hong Kong	10	420	42
17th	Ireland	25th	925	37
18th	Oman	10	269	27

Historic ICC T20I champions

Since the ranking was introduced, the following teams have led the way.

team	begin	The End	Duration	Cumulative duration	Highest rating
England	October 24, 2011	August 7, 2012	289 days	289 days	140
South Africa	August 8, 2012	September 11, 2012	35 days	35 days	137
England	September 12, 2012	September 21, 2012	10 days	299 days	130
South Africa	22nd September 2012	September 28, 2012	7 days	42 days	134
Sri Lanka	29th September 2012	March 27, 2014	545 days	545 days	134
India	March 28, 2014	April 2, 2014	6 days	6 days	130
Sri Lanka	3rd April 2014	3rd April 2014	1 day	546 days	131
India	April 4, 2014	5th April 2014	2 days	8 days	132
Sri Lanka	April 6, 2014	April 30, 2014	25 days	571 days	133
India	May 1, 2014	September 6, 2014	129 days	137 days	131
Sri Lanka	September 7, 2014	January 9, 2016	490 days	1061 days	135
West Indies	January 10, 2016	January 30, 2016	21 days	21 days	118
India	January 31, 2016	February 8, 2016	9 days	146 days	120
Sri Lanka	February 9, 2016	February 11, 2016	3 days	1064 days	121
India	February 12, 2016	May 3, 2016	82 days	228 days	127
New Zealand	4th May 2016	October 31, 2017	546 days	546 days	132
Pakistan	1st November 2017	3rd November 2017	3 days	3 days	124
New Zealand	4th November 2017	November 6, 2017	3 days	549 days	124
Pakistan	7th November 2017	2nd January 2018	57 days	60 days	124
New Zealand	January 3, 2018	January 27, 2018	25 days	574 days	128
Pakistan	January 28, 2018	today	406 days	466 days	138
Last updated: March 9, 2019

In summary, the highest ranking was held by the following teams:

team	Number of days	Highest rating
Sri Lanka	1064	135
New Zealand	574	132
Pakistan	466	138
England	299	140
India	228	132
South Africa	42	137
West Indies	21st	118

Calculation of the rating

The rating a team has is based on the performance of all Twenty20 games it has played in the past three to four years. For the games of the last 12 to 24 months since last May, the full points are counted, for the 24 months before the acquired points count to 50%. In May, the points that were earned between three and four years ago will be redeemed. The following figure shows an example for two periods.

After each game, the scoring table is updated based on the score the two teams had before the game and the game result. The first step is to determine the rating for the respective game. If the scores of the two teams involved are less than 40 points apart, the following distribution of points applies:

Game result	Points earned
Profit	Opponent rating +50
draw	Opposing rating
loss	Opponent rating - 50

If the scores of the two teams before the game are more than 40 points apart, the following applies:

Game result	Points earned
Stronger team wins	Own rating + 10
Weaker team loses	Own rating - 10
Stronger team draws	Own rating - 40
Weaker team draws	Own rating + 40
Stronger team loses	Own rating - 90
Weaker team wins	Own rating + 90

The rating of a team is the number of points earned divided by the number of games played.

See also

Portal: Cricket  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of cricket

• ICC Test Championship
• ICC ODI Championship

Web links

• ICC Test, ODI and T20I Championship Rankings on Cricinfo