ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings

For the international Ranking of Twenty20 cricket, see ICC World Twenty20.

ICC T20 Rankings

File:ICCranking logo.png ICC T20 Championship logo
Administrator	International Cricket Council
Format	Twenty20
First edition	2007
Latest edition	ongoing
Tournament format	national (ongoing points accumulation through all matches played)
Number of teams	16
Current champion	Sri Lanka (131 points)
Most successful	Sri Lanka (19 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 3 April 2014, Sri Lanka lead the ICC T20I Championship with a rating of 131.

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.

Ranking table

ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
India	66	17,667	268
Australia	45	11,545	257
England	41	10,391	253
West Indies	52	13,139	253
New Zealand	49	12,113	247
South Africa	40	9,800	245
Pakistan	46	11,097	241
Sri Lanka	43	9,974	232
Bangladesh	53	11,898	224
Afghanistan	39	8,682	223
Ireland	49	9,629	197
Zimbabwe	51	9,915	194
Scotland	27	5,151	191
Netherlands	25	4,600	184
Namibia	41	7,456	183
United Arab Emirates	46	8,198	178
Nepal	46	7,852	171
United States	30	5,010	167
Oman	42	6,697	159
Papua New Guinea	31	4,472	144
Canada	28	3,914	140
Uganda	62	8,353	135
Hong Kong	47	6,173	131
Kuwait	41	5,087	124
Malaysia	50	6,123	122
Bahrain	34	4,030	119
Jersey	26	3,063	118
Qatar	23	2,598	113
Spain	22	2,442	111
Italy	18	1,944	108
Bermuda	11	1,185	108
Kenya	56	5,870	105
Saudi Arabia	30	3,142	105
Tanzania	47	4,301	92
Germany	32	2,860	89
Nigeria	34	2,711	80
Guernsey	23	1,759	76
Singapore	29	2,217	76
Norway	20	1,444	72
Cayman Islands	9	646	72
Denmark	25	1,711	68
Cambodia	22	1,471	67
Portugal	17	1,071	63
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	24	1,298	54
Cook Islands	9	426	47
Romania	28	1,316	47
Malawi	30	1,369	46
Sweden	17	770	45
Finland	21	950	45
Argentina	9	407	45
Czech Republic	19	809	43
Thailand	28	1,133	40
Vanuatu	22	884	40
Philippines	24	894	37
Mozambique	21	751	36
Fiji	11	387	35
Rwanda	73	2,416	33
Samoa	11	357	32
Ghana	33	1,045	32
Estonia	19	597	31
Indonesia	40	1,144	29
Luxembourg	28	753	27
Sierra Leone	25	651	26
Malta	46	1,191	26
Israel	7	178	25
Bahamas	8	191	24
Gibraltar	31	615	20
Hungary	17	336	20
Slovenia	8	150	19
Panama	9	157	17
Bhutan	21	338	16
Cyprus	17	272	16
Mexico	9	131	15
Croatia	17	167	10
Maldives	31	234	8
Eswatini	17	118	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	13	0	0
Mali	11	0	0
Greece	8	0	0
Gambia	9	0	0
References: ICC T20I rankings, As of 24 October 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

Country	Start	End	Total Months	Highest Rating
England	October 2011	March 2012	6	140
South Africa	March 2012	September 2012	7	130
Sri Lanka	September 2012	March 2014	19	134
India	March 2014	2 April 2014	<1	130
Sri Lanka	3 April 2014	-	0	131

See also

• ICC Test Championship
• ICC ODI Championship
• International structure of cricket
• ICC Player Rankings
• List of Twenty20 International records
• List of India Twenty20 International records

External links

• ICC Test, ODI and T20I Championship Rankings