Sri Lanka (Commonwealth) _Making massive progress in the most recent ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings, Sri Lanka skipper Dhananjaya de Silva has been recognized for his Player of the Match exploits during the first Test against Bangladesh.
In Sylhet, the captain of Sri Lanka amassed two centuries to lead his team to a decisive 328-run victory against their Asian adversary. He also achieved a new career-high rating in the Test batting rankings. After scoring 102 and 108, De Silva leaped fifteen places to finish 14th overall. The 32-year-old reached a career-high 695 rating points, which is only 40 rating points shy of ranking among the top 10 Test hitters.
Additionally, Kamindu Mendis made two tons of contributions in the first Test match against Bangladesh. After an impressive showing in just his second Test appearance, the left-hander re-entered the rankings for Test bats in equal 64th position.
With an unbeaten 87* in the second innings at Sylhet, veteran left-hander Mominul Haque played a lone hand for Bangladesh and moved up eight spots to 50th on the list of Test hitters. The new Test bowling rankings brought additional happiness to the Sri Lankan players, with right-arm pacer Kasun Rajitha leading the pack after taking five wickets in the second innings against Bangladesh.
Rajitha gained six positions to finish in 38th place overall thanks to it, and teammates Vishwa Fernando (up seven places to 43rd) and Lahiru Kumara (up six runs to joint 46th) also gained ground after showing strong ball-handling abilities.
The top two players in the Test all-round rankings are still India’s Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin, with the biggest shiftrs this week being Bangladeshi spinner Mehidy Hasan (up one position to 14th) and da Silva (up five spaces to joint 25th).
For men’s teams participating in Test, One-Day International, and Twenty20 International cricket, as well as women’s teams participating in One-Day International and Twenty20 International cricket, the ICC maintains a rating system. On its official website, ICC Team Rankings, the ICC provides the most recent rankings of teams based on that methodology. Every year, the ICC adjusts the Ranking Points of every team to maintain the rankings’ accuracy and correctness, causing an overnight shift in the rankings. Every year on May 1st, the ICC ODI Rankings are updated based on the following predetermined guidelines:
Points accrued prior to the previous 36 months (since May 1st, 2013) are eliminated. 50% of all points obtained over the last 13 to 36 months (from May of the previous year to April of the preceding year) are weighted. Every point acquired throughout the last 12 months (from May of last year to April of this year) is still worth 100%.
The aforementioned regulations are in force till April 30, of the following year. The points obtained from matches played during this time are simply added to the yearly updated rankings as of May 1st to provide the current ICC Rankings till the next annual update. In other words, on April 30 of each year: Points accrued since May of two years ago, or during the last 24 months, are given 100% weight in the calculation.
Points collected between the 25th and 48th months of the previous year (from April of the previous year to May of the preceding year) are given 50% weight. The purpose of the ICC ODI Rankings was to create a system for evaluating the performance of various teams, putting a number on their success, and identifying the best, average, and worst sides at a given period of time. The process is based on the rival teams’ current form as well as their performance in a given match. For ease of reference, a grade of 100 indicates parity, 120 indicates excellence, and 130 or more indicates exceptionality. Instead of evaluating a team’s performance only based on where it is in the list of twelve ODI Ranked teams at any one time, this information is very helpful in understanding a team’s ranking in the context of its own ranking points.
Theoretically, a team with 110 ranking points could also be ranked as the best team in the world, but depending on performance strength, that team might lag far behind another top-ranked team with 130 ranking points, or even a number-two or three team with 120 points.
