ICC ODI Championship

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ICC ODI Championship

153px ICC ODI Championship logo
Administrator	International Cricket Council
Format	One Day International
First tournament	2002
Last tournament	ongoing
Tournament format	notional (ongoing points accumulation through all matches played)
Number of teams	12 33 Associate members
Current champion	Australia (127 points)
Most successful	Australia (128 months)

The ICC ODI Championship is an international One Day International cricket competition run by the International Cricket Council. The competition is notional in that it is simply a ranking scheme overlaid on the regular ODI match schedule. After every ODI 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.

By analogy to cricket batting averages, the points for winning an ODI match are always greater than the team's rating, increasing the rating, and the points for losing an ODI match are always less than the rating, reducing the rating. A drawn match between higher and lower rated teams will benefits the lower-rated team at the expense of the higher-rated team. An "average" team that wins as often as it loses while playing a mix of stronger and weaker teams should have a rating of 100.

As of 14 June 2015, Australia lead the ICC ODI Championship with a rating of 129, while the lowest rated team, Afghanistan, has a rating of 45.

Qualification

The championship consists of two separate ranking tables. The ten ICC Full Members that play Test cricket are automatically listed on the main table. The six Associate Members with One Day International status are listed on a secondary table, but are eligible for promotion to the main table by meeting one of the following criteria:

• two wins in ODIs against Full Members
• one win in an ODI against a Full Member and also have won more than 60% of qualifying matches versus other Associates

Ireland qualified for the main table following their victories over Pakistan and Bangladesh in the 2007 World Cup. Latest entrant is Afghanistan, by defeating Bangladesh in 2014 Asia Cup. Netherlands and Kenya were also listed on the main table as they previously had permanent ODI status.

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 four years.
• Matches played in the first year of the four-year limit count one-third; matches played in the second year counts half; matches played in the last two years 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 four 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

Reliance ICC ODI Rankings
Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	Australia	45	5733	127
2	India	57	6457	114
3	South Africa	57	6362	112
4	New Zealand	52	5767	111
5	Sri Lanka	67	6956	104
6	England	56	5639	101
7	Bangladesh	37	3571	97
8	Pakistan	57	4983	87
9	West Indies	38	3256	86
10	Afghanistan	25	1185	47
11	Ireland	15	683	46
12	Zimbabwe	55	2466	45
Reference: ICC Rankings, 12 January 2016

Historical ICC ODI Champions

The ICC provides ratings for the end of each month back to October 2002. This table lists the teams that have successively held the highest rating since that date, by whole month periods.

Team	Start	End	Total Months	Cumulative Months	Highest Rating
Australia	October 2002	January 2007	52	52	140
South Africa	February 2007	February 2007	1	1	128
Australia	March 2007	February 2008	12	64	130
South Africa	March 2008	May 2008	3	4	127
Australia	June 2008	December 2008	7	71	131
South Africa	January 2009	August 2009	8	12	127
Australia	September 2009	August 2012	35	106	134
England	August 2012	December 2012	5	5	121
India	January 2013	January 2014	12	12	124
Australia	January 2014	August 2014	8	114	117
India	September 2014	September 2014	1	13	113
Australia	October 2014	October 2014	1	115	114
South Africa	October 2014	November 2014	0.5	12.5	115
India	November 2014	November 2014	0.5	13.5	117
Australia	November 2014	present	13	128	129

The ICC recently applied its current rating system to results since 1981 providing ratings for the end of each month back to 1981 further indicating Australia's historical dominance in ODI Cricket with the most consecutive months ranked first (83) from March 2000 to January 2007, the highest number of months ranked first (186). The table only begins from 1981 as prior to this date, there is not enough data available due to the infrequency of matches and the small number of competing teams in the earlier periods.

The teams that have successively held the highest rating since January 1981 till September 2002, by whole month periods, are:

Team	Start	End	Total Months
England	January 1981	February 1981	2
West Indies	June 1981	November 1981	6
England	December 1981	December 1981	1
West Indies	January 1982	May 1987	65
England	August 1987	March 1988	8
West Indies	April 1988	May 1988	2
England	August 1988	May 1989	10
West Indies	August 1989	December 1989	5
Australia	January 1990	March 1990	3
West Indies	April 1990	April 1990	1
Australia	May 1990	May 1990	1
West Indies	July 1990	July 1990	1
Australia	August 1990	November 1990	4
Pakistan	December 1990	January 1991	2
Australia	February 1991	May 1991	4
Pakistan	August 1991	August 1991	1
Australia	October 1991	May 1992	8
England	August 1992	March 1993	8
West Indies	April 1993	April 1993	1
Australia	May 1993	July 1993	3
West Indies	August 1993	November 1994	16
India	December 1994	March 1995	4
West Indies	April 1995	May 1995	2
India	August 1995	October 1995	3
England	November 1995	December 1995	2
Australia	January 1996	April 1996	4
South Africa	May 1996	February 2000	46
Australia	March 2000	September 2002	31
Reference: Historical Rankings

The summary of teams that have held the highest rating since 1981 till present by whole month periods, are:

Team	Total Months	Highest Rating
Australia	186	140
West Indies	97	141
South Africa	59	134
England	36	135
India	21	127
Pakistan	3	131
Reference: Historical Rankings updated to 31/01/2014

Associate rankings

Nepal Captain Paras Khadka batting during the 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three in Bermuda

In late 2005, the International Cricket Council ranked the top non-Test nations from 11–30 to complement the Test nations' rankings in the ICC ODI Championship. The ICC used the results from the 2005 ICC Trophy and WCQS Division 2 competition (i.e. the primary qualification mechanisms for the 2007 Cricket World Cup) to rank the nations.

These rankings were used to seed the initial stage of the global World Cricket League. Teams ranked 11–16 were placed into Division 1; teams 17–20 were placed into Division 2; teams 21–24 were placed into Division 3; the remaining teams were placed into the upper divisions of their respective regional qualifiers.

As of 19 April 2009 the top six associates/affiliates gained one day status. Kenya and Ireland have both qualified to appear on the main rating table, Kenya from its existing status and Ireland for its two victories in the 2007 World Cup. Following their victory over Bangladesh in July 2010, the Netherlands joined the main table. Afghanistan, Canada and Scotland remain on the secondary table. In May 2009, the ICC added a rankings table for all associate and affiliate members. This contained both global and regional placings.

Associate rankings according to ICC:

Rank	Nation	Regional Rank
13	Scotland	Europe No. 2 Associate/Affiliate member
14	United Arab Emirates	Asia No. 2 Associate/Affiliate member
15	Hong Kong	Asia 3
16	Papua New Guinea	EAP No. 1 Associate/Affiliate member
17	Netherlands	Europe 3
18	Namibia	Africa No. 1 Associate/Affiliate member
19	Kenya	Africa 2
20	Nepal	Asia 4
21	Uganda	Africa 3
22	Canada	Americas No. 1 Associate/Affiliate member
23	Malaysia	Asia 5
24	Singapore	Asia 6
25	United States	Americas 2
26	Bermuda	Americas 3
27	Denmark	Europe 4
28	Italy	Europe 5
29	Oman	Asia 7
30	Jersey	Europe 6
31	Tanzania	Africa 4
32	Nigeria	Africa 5
33	Guernsey	Europe 7
34	Cayman Islands	Americas 4
35	Vanuatu	EAP 2
	Botswana	Africa 6
	Suriname	Americas 5
	Saudi Arabia	Asia 8
	Fiji	EAP 3
Reference: Associate & Affiliate Rankings updated to 31/10/2014

Trophy

The team at the top of the ICC ODI Championship has been awarded the ICC ODI Championship shield. Like a 2 euro coin, the shield features an inner circle of gold-coloured metal and is surrounded by a ring of silver-coloured metal. It was first presented in December 2002, when Australia's captain Ricky Ponting received the trophy.

See also

• ICC Test Championship
• ICC T20I Championship
• International structure of cricket
• ICC Player Rankings

External links

• ICC Test, ODI and T20I Championship Rankings