Team India achieved a feat with the victory of Asia Cup

ICC ODI Rankings: Monday and the date of September 17 were special in themselves for Team India. Firstly, the Indian team captained by Rohit Sharma captured the title of Asia Cup 2023 after defeating Sri Lanka in a one-sided match in the final. This is the eighth Asia Cup trophy of the Indian team. India has won the T20 Asia Cup once and the ODI Asia Cup seven times. While on one hand Team India defeated Sri Lanka badly by ten wickets, on the other hand, South Africa defeated Australia by 3.2 in the five-match ODI series after losing the first two matches. After these two big matches, a lot of changes are being seen in the ICC ODI rankings. The interesting thing is that despite the defeat of Australia and the victory of Team India, the Pakistani team has again become number one in the ICC ODI rankings.

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— ICC (@ICC) September 17, 2023

Pakistan reached number one in ICC ODI rankings, Team India reached number two

After the matches between India vs Sri Lanka and Australia vs South Africa, new ODI rankings have been released by the ICC. In this, Pakistan team has again become the number one team. This is the situation when Pakistan team has neither been able to reach the final of Asia Cup nor has been able to win against the Indian team. Talking about the latest ranking, Pakistani team has again occupied the number one position with the rating of 115. Team India's rating is also the same i.e. 115, but the Indian team has to be satisfied with number two. Why did the Indian team remain at number two? There are two reasons for this, one is that Team India has achieved this rating by playing 41 matches during this period, whereas the Pakistani team has achieved this rating by playing only 27 matches. Also, when ratings are equal, digits up to decimal are used for ranking. Where Team India is behind.

Australian suffered loss after losing to South Africa, straight reached number three

The Australian team has suffered a lot by losing to South Africa. Australia had won the first two matches of the five-match series, but after this South Africa made a strong counterattack. By winning three consecutive matches, South Africa not only captured the series but also pushed Australia straight from number one to number three. Australia's ODI ranking has now increased to three, while the team's rating remains at 113. Now the Australian team will come on India tour, where three ODI matches will be played, these are going to be very important for both India and Australia. Changes in rankings and ratings may be seen after every match.

Team India is the only team to be on top in all three formats.

Meanwhile, even though the Indian team may not have become the number one ODI team, it is at number two and is the only team in the world which remains in the top 3 in the rankings of ODI, Test and T20 International. The number one team in ODI is Pakistan, second is India and third is Australia. In T20, Team India is at number one, England is at second and Pakistani team is at third. If we talk about Test, Indian team is at number one, Australia is at second and England team is at third. That means, it is the only Indian team to be in the top 2 in all three formats.