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ICC Rankings: India can disintegrate Australia from No 1 mark with 4-0 win over West Indies
- Updated: July 25, 2016
Australia might have usually won a ICC Test Championship mace though India can disintegrate them from a array one mark if they are means to vacant a West Indies 4-0 in a ongoing array and formula in a other dual marquee array go as per their wish.
Indian players applaud tumble of a West Indian wicket. Pic/ AFP
If India win 4-0, England-Pakistan array ends in a pull and Sri Lanka win by 1-0 or better, afterwards India will burst to a array one position, a ICC pronounced in a matter today. India thrashed a West Indies by an innings and 92 runs in a initial Test in Antigua. To henceforth close a doorway on their nearest rivals India, Australia need to kick Sri Lanka by 1-0 or improved and during a same time wish that England win, during least, one Test opposite Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Australia captain Steve Smith currently perceived a ICC Test Championship mace and USD 1 million in esteem income for heading his side to a array one ranking on a MRF Tyres ICC Test Team Rankings on a annual Apr 1 cut-off date.
ICC Chief Executive David Richardson done a presentations to Smith in Pallekele, who captained Australia to 10 Test victories over a 12-month period.
“The mace is a pitch of value and approval of a side’s superb feat in a toughest format of a sport. Australia’s winning performances have been well-developed and they entirely merit to be awarded a mace,” pronounced Richardson.
“These are sparkling times for Test cricket as a tip 4 ranked countries are concerned in high form array opposite 3 opposite continents showcasing a unequivocally best this format of a competition has to offer. we am certain a inducement of achieving a array one ranking will serve motivate them, bringing out a best in a players,” combined Richardson.
Smith paid reverence to his side, saying: “It is a outrageous honour to be a array one ranked Test side in a universe and a credit should go to all a work a players and support staff have put in over a final 12 months.
“I am unequivocally unapproachable of a immature group and what we have achieved so distant though there is still some-more we would like to achieve. We now need to put in unchanging performances, both during home and away, to continue to be successful and keep a array one ranking.
“Winning divided from home has mostly been a plea for us, generally in sub-continental conditions, though this is something we are looking to change in this arriving array opposite Sri Lanka,” resolved Smith, who won a Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for a ICC Cricketer of a Year in 2015.
Competition for a array one ranking this year stays intensely parsimonious as usually 10 points apart a tip 4 sides. Second-ranked India, third-ranked Pakistan and fourth-ranked England have a possibility to pierce into a tip spot, depending on how West Indies-India, England-Pakistan and Sri Lanka-Australia array vessel out.
If Pakistan kick England and Sri Lanka better Australia, afterwards Pakistan will explain a array one ranking for a initial time in their history, irrespective of how a West Indies-India array finishes. England too can tip a Test rankings. But to make it happen, it will have to win a remaining 3 Tests opposite Pakistan and wish West Indies win, during least, one Test opposite India and Sri Lanka kick Australia.