Alternative Rankings
Simple Rankings System for Test Match Cricket – Last Home and Away Series vs Every Test Nation – 2 Points for a Won Series and 1 Point for a Drawn Series
Test Match Rankings
Criteria is the last home and away Test series played against all of the 9 Test opposition so 18 series in total. 2 points for a series win and 1 if the series is drawn. Maximum of a possible 36 points available for last home and away series win vs all 9 Test nations i.e. scoring two points for all 18 series won – 9 home and 9 away vs all 9 Test opponents. Basically two points for winning every possible home and every possible away series in Test Cricket. The rankings can therefore be potentially updated/changed after the outcome of each Test series is decided depending on whether the series outcome was different to the previous home or away series outcome against one of the nine Test opponents.
1) India = 27 points
2) South Africa = 24 points
3) New Zealand = 23 points
4) Australia = 22 points
5) England = 21 points
6) Pakistan = 21 points
7) Sri Lanka = 16 points
8) West Indies = 12 points
9) Bangladesh = 8 points
10) Zimbabwe = 4 points
Below outdated tours highlighted in red due to political differences or lack of commercial interest in the series are acknowledged as a slight flaw of the rankings system, but it is what it is. This is still the fairest system in my view. It is far too early to add Ireland or Afghanistan – once they played everybody once then they will also be included.
Pakistan
Last Home series vs:
England = Won (2015)
Australia = Won (2018)
West Indies = Won (2016)
India = Won (2006)
Bangladesh = Won (2003)
South Africa = Won (2021)
New Zealand = Lost (2018)
Sri Lanka = Won (2019)
Zimbabwe = Lost (1998)
Last Away series vs:
Sri Lanka = Won (2015)
Bangladesh = Won (2021)
England = Lost (2020)
West Indies = Drawn (2021)
Zimbabwe = Won (2021)
Australia = Lost (2019)
South Africa = Lost (2018-19)
New Zealand = Lost (2020-21)
India = Lost (2007)
Pakistan = Won 10 series | Drawn 1 series | Lost 7 series.
10 times 2 = 20. 1 times 1 = 2. 20 + 1 = 21.
England
Last Home series vs:
Australia = Drew (2019)
India = Won (2018)
West Indies = Won (2020)
Sri Lanka = Won (2016)
Bangladesh = Won (2010)
Zimbabwe = Won (2003)
Pakistan = Won (2020)
New Zealand = Lost (2021)
South Africa = Won (2017)
Last Away series vs:
South Africa = Won (2019-20)
New Zealand = Lost (2019)
Sri Lanka = Won (2021)
West Indies = Lost (2022)
Bangladesh = Drew (2016)
Zimbabwe = Drew (1996)
Australia = Lost (2021-22)
Pakistan = Lost (2015)
India = Lost (2021)
England = Won 9 series | Drew 3 series | Lost 6 series.
9 times 2 = 18. 3 times 1 = 3. 18 + 3 = 21.
Australia
Last Home series vs:
England = Won (2020-21)
India = Lost (2020-21)
New Zealand = Won (2019-20)
West Indies = Won (2015-16)
Sri Lanka = Won (2019)
Pakistan = Won (2019)
Bangladesh = Won (2003)
Zimbabwe = Won (2003)
South Africa = Lost (2016)
Last Away series vs:
South Africa = Lost (2018)
New Zealand = Won (2016)
West Indies = Won (2015)
Bangladesh = Drew (2017)
Zimbabwe = Won (1999)
England = Drew (2019)
India = Lost (2017)
Pakistan = Lost (2018)
Sri Lanka = Lost (2016)
Australia = Won 10 series | Drawn 2 series | Lost 6 series.
10 times 2 = 20. 2 times 1 = 2. 20 + 2 = 22.
India
Last Home series vs:
England = Won (2021)
Australia = Won (2017)
South Africa = Won (2019)
New Zealand = Won (2021)
West Indies = Won (2018)
Sri Lanka = Won (2017)
Pakistan = Won (2007)
Zimbabwe = Won (2002)
Bangladesh = Won (2019)
Last Away series vs:
Sri Lanka = Won (2017)
West Indies = Won (2019)
Zimbabwe = Won (2005)
Bangladesh = Drew (2015)
England = Lost (2018)
Australia = Won (2020-21)
South Africa = Lost (2022)
New Zealand = Lost (2020)
Pakistan = Lost (2006)
India = Won 13 series | Lost 4 series | Drawn 1 series.
13 times 2 = 26. 1 times 1 = 1. 26 + 1 = 27.
South Africa
Last Home series vs:
India = Won (2021-22)
Pakistan = Won (2018-19)
Sri Lanka = Won (2020-2021)
Bangladesh = Won (2017)
Zimbabwe = Won (2017)
New Zealand = Won (2016)
West Indies = Won (2014)
England = Lost (2015-16)
Australia = Won (2018)
Last Away series vs:
England = Lost (2017)
Australia = Won (2016)
New Zealand = Drew (2022)
West Indies = Won (2021)
Sri Lanka = Lost (2018)
Zimbabwe = Won (2014)
Pakistan = Lost (2021)
Bangladesh = Drew (2015)
India = Lost (2019)
South Africa = Won 11 series | Drawn 2 series | Lost 5 series.
11 times 2 = 22. 1 times 2 = 2. 22 + 2 = 24.
New Zealand
Last Home series vs:
Sri Lanka = Won (2018)
West Indies = Won (2020)
Pakistan = Won (2016)
India = Won (2020)
Bangladesh = Drawn (2022)
Zimbabwe = Won (2012)
England = Won (2019)
South Africa = Drawn (2022)
Australia = Lost (2016)
Last Away series vs:
West Indies = Won (2014)
Zimbabwe = Won (2016)
England = Won (2021)
Pakistan = Won (2018)
Sri Lanka = Drew (2019)
Bangladesh = Drew (2013)
India = Lost (2021)
South Africa = Lost (2016)
Australia = Lost (2019-20)
New Zealand = Won 10 series | Drawn 4 series | Lost 4 series.
10 times 2 = 20. 4 times 1 = 4. 20 + 4 = 24.
Sri Lanka
Last Home series vs:
Australia = Won (2016)
West Indies = Won (2021)
Bangladesh = Won (2021)
Zimbabwe = Won (2020)
New Zealand = Drew (2019)
England = Lost (2021)
India = Lost (2017)
Pakistan = Lost (2015)
South Africa = Won (2018)
Last Away series vs:
Bangladesh = Won (2018)
Zimbabwe = Won (2016)
Pakistan = Lost (2019)
West Indies = Drew (2021)
South Africa = Lost (2021)
England = Lost (2016)
Australia = Lost (2019)
New Zealand = Lost (2015-16)
India = Lost (2017)
Sri Lanka Won 7 series | Lost 9 series | Drawn 2 series.
7 times 2 = 14. 2 times 1 = 2. 14 + 2 = 16.
West Indies
Last Home series vs:
Bangladesh = Won (2018)
Zimbabwe = Won (2013)
England = Won (2019)
Pakistan = Drawn (2021)
Sri Lanka = Drew (2021)
Australia = Lost (2015)
South Africa = Lost (2020)
New Zealand = Lost (2014)
India = Lost (2019)
Last Away series vs:
Bangladesh = Won (2021)
Zimbabwe = Won (2017)
Sri Lanka = Lost (2021)
New Zealand = Lost (2020)
Australia = Lost (2015-16)
South Africa = Lost (2014)
Pakistan = Lost (2016)
India = Lost (2018)
England = Lost (2017)
West Indies = Won 5 series | Drawn 2 series | Lost 11 series.
5 times 2 = 10. 2 times 1 = 2. 10 + 2 = 12.
Bangladesh
Last Home series vs:
Zimbabwe = Won (2020)
England = Drew (2016)
India = Drew (2015)
South Africa = Drew (2015)
New Zealand = Drew (2013)
Pakistan = Lost (2021)
West Indies = Lost (2021)
Australia = Drew (2017)
Sri Lanka = Lost (2018)
Last Away series vs:
Zimbabwe = Drew (2013)
England = Lost (2010)
Australia = Lost (2003)
South Africa = Lost (2017)
New Zealand = Drawn (2022)
West Indies = Lost (2018)
Sri Lanka = Lost (2021)
Pakistan = Lost (2003)
India = Lost (2019)
Bangladesh = Won 1 series | Drawn 7 series | Lost 10 series
1 times 2 = 2. 7 times 1 = 7. 2 + 7 = 9.
Zimbabwe
Last Home series vs:
England = Drew (1996)
Bangladesh = Drew (2013)
Pakistan = Lost (2021)
West Indies = Lost (2017)
Australia = Lost (1999)
Sri Lanka = Lost (2020)
New Zealand = Lost (2016)
South Africa = Lost (2014)
India = Lost (2005)
Last Away series vs:
Pakistan = Won (1998)
England = Lost (2003)
Australia = Lost (2003)
India = Lost (2002)
South Africa = Lost (2017)
New Zealand = Lost (2012)
Bangladesh = Lost (2020)
Sri Lanka = Lost (2017)
West Indies = Lost (2013)
Zimbabwe = Won 1 series | Drawn 2 series | Lost 15 series.
1 times 2 = 2. 2 times 1 = 2. 2 + 2 = 4.
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