International cricket season 2014/15

The 2014/15 international cricket season took place between October 2014 and April 2015. As the winter season, the teams from South Asia, the Caribbean and Oceania played their home games and was specified by the ICC Future Tours 2011-2020 program . The highlight of the season was the Cricket World Cup 2015 , which resulted in an increased number of one-day international events in preparation for the competition. The tests carried out on the international tours form the basis for the ICC Test Championship . The ODI form the basis for the ICC ODI Championship and the Twenty20 games for the ICC T20 Championship.

overview

International tours

Beginning	Home team	Away team	Results			items
			test	ODI	Twenty20
5th October 2014	Pakistan	Australia	2–0 [2]	0–3 [3]	0-1 [1]	items
October 8, 2014	India	West Indies		2–1 [4]		items
October 21, 2014	New Zealand	South Africa		0–2 [3]		items
October 26, 2014	Bangladesh	Zimbabwe	3–0 [3]	5–0 [5]		items
2nd November 2014	India	Sri Lanka		5–0 [5]		items
5th November 2014	Australia	South Africa		4–1 [5]	2–1 [3]	items
November 8, 2014	Hong Kong vs. Papua New Guinea	0-1 [1]	0–2 [2]		items
November 9, 2014	Pakistan	New Zealand	1–1 [3]	2–3 [5]	1–1 [2]	items
19th November 2014	Hong Kong vs. Nepal		0–0 [1]	1-0 [4]	items
November 26, 2014	Sri Lanka	England		5–2 [7]		items
November 28, 2014	Ver. Arab. Emirates	Afghanistan		3–1 [4]		items
4th December 2014	Australia	India	2–0 [4]			items
17th December 2014	South Africa	West Indies	2–0 [3]	4–1 [5]	1–2 [3]	items
December 26, 2014	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	2–0 [2]	4–2 [7]		items
January 31, 2015	New Zealand	Pakistan		2–0 [2]		items
April 13, 2015	West Indies	England	1–1 [3]			items
17th April 2015	Bangladesh	Pakistan	0–1 [2]	3–0 [3]	1–0 [1]	items

International tournaments

Beginning	competition	country
October 26, 2014	ICC World Cricket League Division Three 2014	Malaysia
19th November 2014	ICC East Asia-Pacific Men's Championship 2014	Australia
November 26, 2014	ICC Americas Twenty20 Division Two 2014	United States
4th January 2015	Dubai Triangular Series 2014/15	Ver. Arab. Emirates
January 16, 2015	Carlton Mid Triangular Series 2014/15	Australia
17th January 2014	ICC World Cricket League Division Two 2015	Namibia
January 25, 2014	ACC Twenty20 Cup 2015	Ver. Arab. Emirates
February 14, 2015	Cricket World Cup 2015	Australia
March 27, 2015	ICC Africa Twenty20 Championship 2015	South Africa

World rankings

End of season

The world rankings were published by the ICC on May 1st as follows:

	test		ODI		Twenty20
Pl.	team	Points	team	Points	team	Points
1	South Africa	130	Australia	129	Sri Lanka	131
2	Australia	108	India	117	India	126
3	New Zealand	99	New Zealand	116	Australia	117
4th	India	99	South Africa	112	Pakistan	117
5	England	97	Sri Lanka	106	South Africa	116
6th	Pakistan	97	England	94	West Indies	112
7th	Sri Lanka	96	West Indies	88	New Zealand	111
8th	West Indies	84	Bangladesh	88	England	99
9	Bangladesh	39	Pakistan	87	Ireland	87
10	Zimbabwe	5	Ireland	50	Bangladesh	77
11			Zimbabwe	11	Netherlands	68
12			Afghanistan	41	Afghanistan	62
13					Zimbabwe	52
14th					Scotland	51

Champions League

Beginning	competition	country
September 13, 2014	Champions League Twenty20 2014	India

National championships

The national championships of the full members of the ICC are listed.

country	First class	List A	Twenty20
Australia	Sheffield Shield 2014/15	Matador BBQs One-Day Cup 2014/15	Big Bash League 2014/15
Bangladesh	National Cricket League 2014/15	Dhaka Premier Division 2014/15
Bangladesh Cricket League 2014/15	Bangladesh Cricket League One-Day 2014/15
India	Ranji Trophy 2014/15	Vijay Hazare Trophy 2014/15	Indian Premier League 2015
Duleep Trophy 2014/15	Deodhar Trophy 2014/15	Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2014/15
Irani Cup 2014/15
Sri Lanka	Premier Trophy 2014/15	Premier Limited Overs Tournament 2014/15	SLC Twenty-20 Tournament 2014/15
New Zealand	Plunket Shield 2014/15	Ford Trophy 2014/15	Georgie Pie Super Smash 2014-15
Pakistan	Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2014/15	Haier Pentangular Cup One Day 2014/15	Haier T20 Cup 2014/15
	President's One Day 2014/15
Zimbabwe	Logan Cup 2014/15	Pro50 Championship 2014/15
South Africa	Sunfoil Series 2014/15	Momentum 1 Day Cup 2014/15	Ram Slam T20 Challenge 2014/15
West Indies	WICB Professional Cricket League 2014/15	Nagico Super50 2014/15

Web links

• Overview on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pakistan slip to 6th place on ICC Test Team Rankings ( English ) 92 News HD. May 11, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
2. ↑ Pakistan drop down to No 9 in ICC ODI rankings ( English ) The Nation. May 1, 2015. Accessed August 12, 2015.
3. ↑ Rohit Sharma: ICC ODI Test T20 Team Bowler Batsman Ranking 2015 ( English ) Dekh News. May 1, 2015. Accessed August 12, 2015.