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Lahore: Eighth-ranked West Indies will aim to create some daylight between itself and ninth-ranked Pakistan on theMRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings when it hosts world champion Australia and third-ranked South Africa in a tri-series from 3-26 June. A total of 10 matches will be played in the triple-league format with the top two sides progressing to the final.
West Indies leads Pakistan by just one point on the ODI team rankings, but trails Australia by 36 points and South Africa by 24 points. As such, because the rankings are weighted to reflect this difference, every West Indies win over Australia or South Africa will earn it valuable points.
If Australia remains unbeaten in the series, then it will collect five points and move to 129 points, while South Africa will gain six points and rise to 118 points if it makes a clean sweep of the series. However, West Indies will vault from 88 points to 106 points (a gain of 18 points) if it wins all its seven matches.
Even if the West Indies wins one match each against Australia and South Africa, then it will move from 88 points to 91 points, thus opening up a four-point advantage over Pakistan.
With England and the next seven highest-ranked sides on the MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings on 30 September 2017 to qualify directly for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, any points earned by the sides in the lead up to the cut-off date will be critical in determining which sides progress automatically for the ICC’s pinnacle 50-over tournament and which sides battle out for the two remaining positions by featuring in the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018.
While the series in the Caribbean will be in full swing, Zimbabwe will host India for three ODIs in Harare on 11, 13 and 15 June, and Sri Lanka will travel to Ireland for two ODIs to be played on 16 and 18 June.
If India wins all the matches against 11th-ranked Zimbabwe, then it will gain one point and move to 110. However, if India wins the series 2-1, then MS Dhoni’s side will slip to 108 points and Zimbabwe will move from 47 to 48 points.
If fifth-ranked Sri Lanka wins both the matches against Ireland, then it will gain one point and move to 105. However, if the series ends in 1-all, then Sri Lanka will finish on 103 points whereas Ireland will jump from 42 points to 49 points.
Meanwhile, South Africa captain AB de Villiers and Sunil Narine of the West Indies will start the ODI season as the number-one batsman and bowler, respectively.
De Villiers leads India’s Virat Kohli, who will miss the Zimbabwe tour, by 75 points, while third-ranked Hashim Amla and fourth-ranked Quinton de Kock are separated by just three points. Just outside the top 10, in 11thposition, is Faf du Plessis.
Australia has no batsman inside the top 10 but occupies batting slots from 14-18. Glen Maxwell is his side’s highest-ranked batsman in 14th position, followed by David Warner, Aaron Finch, Steve Smith and George Bailey. The five batsmen are separated by just 13 points.
West Indies’ Marlon Samuels is his highest-ranked batsman in 32nd position. He is followed by Lendl Simmons (47th), Darren Bravo (51st) and Johnson Charles (59th).
In the bowlers’ chart, a returning Mitchell Starc is the second highest-ranked bowler to feature in the tri-series after Narine. Starc, who was adjudged the player of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, last played an ODI against England in Manchester in 2015 and will start in fourth place – 49 points behind Narine.
In Imran Tahir and Morne Morkel, South Africa has two bowlers who occupy sixth and eighth positions respectively, and are separated by 19 points. In 14th place is Kagiso Rabada, 60 points behind Morkel.
Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh is the number-one ranked all-rounder, while Australia’s fifth-ranked James Faulkner will aim to make some upward movement.
Forthcoming ODI series:
West Indies, Australia and South Africa
3 June – West Indies v South Africa, Providence
5 June – West Indies v Australia, Providence
7 June – Australia v South Africa, Providence
11 June – Australia v South Africa, Basseterre
13 June – West Indies v Australia, Basseterre
15 June – West Indies v South Africa, Basseterre
19 June – Australia v South Africa, Bridgetown
21 June – West Indies v Australia, Bridgetown
24 June – West Indies v South Africa, Bridgetown
26 June – Final, Bridgetown
India v Zimbabwe
11 June – 1st ODI, Harare
13 June – 2nd ODI, Harare
15 June – 3rd ODI, Harare
Ireland v Sri Lanka
16 June – 1st ODI
18 June – 2nd ODI
MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings (Before the start of West Indies-Australia-South Africa tri-series)
Rank Team Points
1 Australia 124
2 New Zealand 113
3 South Africa 112
4 India 109
5 Sri Lanka 104
6 England 103
7 Bangladesh 98
8 West Indies 88
9 Pakistan 87
10 Afghanistan 51
11 Zimbabwe 47
12 Ireland 42
MRF TYRES ICC ODI Player Rankings (before the start of West Indies-Australia-South Africa tri-series)
Batsmen (top 20)
Rank Player Team Pts Avge HS Rating
1 AB de Villiers SA 900 54.56 902 v NZ at Auckland 2015
2 Virat Kohli Ind 825 51.51 886 v Ban at Fatullah 2014
3 Hashim Amla SA 766 52.13 901 v Eng at Trent Bridge 2012
4 Quinton de Kock SA 763 42.94 789 v Eng at Centurion 2016
5 Rohit Sharma Ind 761! 42.08 761 v Aus at Sydney 2016
6 T. Dilshan SL 760 39.44 802 v Sco at Hobart 2015
7 Kane Williamson NZ 752 47.00 798 v SA at Centurion 2015
8 Martin Guptill NZ 751! 43.25 751 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
9 Shikhar Dhawan Ind 748 43.97 794 v SA at Melbourne 2015
10 Joe Root Eng 739 44.34 743 v SA at Johannesburg 2016
11 Faf du Plessis SA 710 39.78 726 v Eng at Centurion 2016
12 MS Dhoni Ind 706 51.25 836 v Aus at Delhi 2009
13 Ross Taylor NZ 702 43.90 743 v Zim at Harare 2015
14 Glenn Maxwell Aus 686 34.20 735 v Ind at Canberra 2016
15 David Warner Aus 685 37.86 692 v NZ at Wellington 2016
16 Aaron Finch Aus 684 38.48 743 v Eng at Melbourne 2015
17 Steve Smith Aus 675 40.03 709 v Ind at Canberra 2016
18 George Bailey Aus 673 41.63 867 v SA at Harare 2014
19 Jos Buttler Eng 663 35.25 706 v SA at Port Elizabeth 2016
20= Mushfiqur Rahim Ban 661 31.61 671 v Zim at Mirpur 2015
Soumya Sarkar Ban 661* 49.42 671 v SA at Chittagong 2015
Bowlers (top 20)
Rank Player Team Pts Avge Eco. HS Rating
1 Sunil Narine WI 734 26.05 4.07 791 v SL at Jamaica 2013
2 Trent Boult NZ 731* 22.96 4.81 745 v Aus at Auckland 2016
3 Shakib Al Hasan Ban 699 27.89 4.30 717 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
4 Mitchell Starc Aus 685 19.65 4.85 783 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
5 Matt Henry NZ 675*! 22.17 5.42 675 v Aus at Hamilton 2016
6 Imran Tahir SA 674 24.11 4.65 735 v SL at Sydney 2015
7 Dale Steyn SA 665 25.93 4.86 746 v Ind at Durban 2013
8 Morne Morkel SA 655 24.36 4.93 717 v SL at East London 2012
9 Saeed Ajmal Pak 636 22.73 4.18 810 v SA at Centurion 2013
10 Mohammad Irfan Pak 616 31.14 4.91 641 v UAE at Napier 2015
11 R. Ashwin Ind 615 31.73 4.85 691 v SL at Hambantota 2012
12 Moeen Ali Eng 610*! 37.81 4.91 610 v SA at Cape Town 2016
13 James Anderson Eng 606 29.22 4.92 719 v SA at The Oval 2013
14 Kagiso Rabada SA 595*! 20.13 4.83 595 v Eng at Cape Town 2016
15 M. Shami Ind 589 24.89 5.54 654 v Ban at Melbourne 2015
16 M. Mortaza Ban 579 30.76 4.73 653 v Zim at Mirpur 2009
17 Rangana Herath SL 576 31.91 4.41 703 v SA at Pallekele 2013
18 Steven Finn Eng 575 28.96 5.09 755 v NZ at Auckland 2013
19 S. Senanayake SL 571 35.35 4.76 656 v NZ at Christchurch 2015
20= B. Kumar Ind 568 38.30 4.89 657 v WI at Dharamsala 2014
M. Hafeez Pak 568 34.86 4.10 769 v Ind at Kolkata 2013
All-rounders (top five)
Rank Player Team Pts HS Rating
1 Shakib Al Hasan Ban 416 453 v Zim at Chittagong 2009
2 M. Hafeez Pak 363 438 v Ind at Kolkata 2013
3 T. Dilshan SL 349 415 v Sco at Hobart 2015
4 Angelo Mathews SL 335 427 v Eng at Colombo (RPS) 2014
5 James Faulkner Aus 323*/ 361 v NZ at Melbourne 2015
