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India Emerge As Top White-Ball Team In ICC Annual Rankings; Australia Claim Test Throne

Aakash Saini

Indian team with the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy [Source: @BCCI/x]Indian team with the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy [Source: @BCCI/x]

The Indian and Australian cricket teams extended their dominance over other nations on the latest ICC rankings across all formats. The latest rankings rate all international matches played since May 2024 last year at 100 percent, and matches from the preceding two years at 50 percent.

While current WTC holders Australia remain the top ranked Test team in the world by a landslide, active T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy winners Team India is ranked number one on both the T20I and ODI formats.

India, Australia remain on top of ICC rankings

Australia, winners of the 2023 WTC, is ranked the number one Test team in the world with 126 rating points. They find themselves 13 points clear of second-placed and Ashes rivals England. 

South Africa, set to face Australia in the final of this year’s WTC 2025 final, is ranked third on the table with 111 points. India slipped to fourth position and they are followed by New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh and Ireland as the remaining teams constituting the top 10, in that particular order.

Team India, on the other hand, is ranked number one on the latest ICC rankings among men’s ODI as well as T20I teams. In ODIs, India’s 124 rating points places them above New Zealand and Australia (109 points each) as well as ahead of Sri Lanka and Pakistan (104 points each). South Africa, Afghanistan, England, West Indies and Bangladesh form the bottom half of the top 10 ODI table.

In T20Is, T20 World Cup winners Team India (271 rating points) is followed by Australia, England, New Zealand and West Indies. South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan occupy sixth to tenth positions on the rankings in that particular order.