ICC ODI Championship

ICC ODI Championship
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Administrator	International Cricket Council
Format	One Day International
First tournament	2002
Last tournament	ongoing
Tournament format	national (ongoing points accumulation through all matches played)
Number of teams	13 29 Associate members
Current champion	Australia (130 points)
Most successful	Australia (97 months)
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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 11 September 2011, Australia lead the ICC ODI Championship with a rating of 130, while the lowest rated team, Kenya, has a rating of 0.

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:^[1]

• 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,^[2]. and the Netherlands qualified in 2010 by beating Bangladesh. Kenya are 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 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

Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	Australia	32	4,124	129
2	Sri Lanka	28	3,327	119
3	India	39	4,603	118
4	South Africa	21	2,458	117
5	England	35	3,706	106
6	Pakistan	29	2,931	101
7	New Zealand	25	2,174	87
8	West Indies	22	1,711	78
9	Bangladesh	29	1,836	63
10	Zimbabwe	30	1,402	47
11	Ireland	12	492	41
12	Netherlands	9	137	15
13	Kenya	7	0	0
Reference: ICC Rankings, 25 October 2011

Associate rankings

Joel Olweny, Captain of the Uganda Cricket team

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 as at 14 October 2009 according to ICC:^[3]

Rank	Nation	Regional Rank
14	Afghanistan	Asia No. 1 Associate/Affiliate member
15	Scotland	Europe 3
16	Canada	Americas No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
17	United Arab Emirates	Asia 2
18	Namibia	Africa 2
19	United States	Americas 2
20	Uganda	Africa 3
21	Oman	Asia 3
22	Denmark	Europe 4
23	Papua New Guinea	East Asia - Pacific No.1 Associate/Affiliate member
24	Hong Kong	Asia 4
25	Bermuda	Americas 3
26	Cayman Islands	Americas 4
27	Italy	Europe 5
28	Tanzania	Africa 4
29	Fiji	EAP 2
30	Jersey	Europe 6
31	Nepal	Asia 5
32	Argentina	Americas 5
33	Singapore	Asia 6
34	Bahrain	Asia 7
35	Guernsey	Europe 7
36	Malaysia	Asia 8
37	Botswana	Africa 5
38	Norway	Europe 8
39	Nigeria	Africa 6
40	Japan	EAP 3
41	Suriname	Americas 6
42	Gibraltar	Europe 9

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	present	26	97	134
Reference: ICC Rankings

See also

Cricket portal

• ICC Test Championship
• ICC T20 Championship
• International structure of cricket
• ICC Player Rankings

References

1. ^ ICC - Associate and Affiliate Rankings
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ "ICC World Cricket League Rankings". ICC. http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/rankings/icc-global-rankings.html. Retrieved 2009-05-18. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• ICC ODI Championship