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November 5, 2002
India retain fifth placeM J Manohar Rao and Srinivas Bhogle
India's 2-0 home win against West Indies wasn't very profitable since the Windies currently have the poorest away test record among all test-playing teams. India (41.31) gained 0.51 points while West Indies (31.50) lost 2.03 points. India remain fifth in the rankings, West Indies stay eighth -- and, on present form, will probably stay there for some time to come.
India now travel to New Zealand next month. Winning that 2-test series should be much more profitable. If India win 2-0 (which is quite unlikely), they would climb to the fourth place! England, meanwhile, can hope to overtake New Zealand even if they perform modestly well and salvage a few draws (remember, New Zealand are up there largely because of that drawn series against Australia last year!).
The current (as on Nov 3, 2002) home-away point tally of test playing teams is shown, below, in Table A.
-- How the rankings work...
| TABLE A: Test Score Card (as on
Nov 3, 2002) |
|
A W A Y |
| Aus |
Eng |
Ind |
NZ |
Pak |
RSA |
SL |
WI |
Zim |
H
O
M
E |
Australia |
|
4 / 5
3.5 / 5
|
1 / 3
3 / 3
|
3 / 3
1.5 / 3
|
3 / 3
3 / 3
|
2 / 3
3 / 3
|
1 / 3
3 / 3 |
2 / 4
5 / 5
|
1 / 1
- |
| England |
1.5 / 5
1 / 5
|
|
1 / 3
2 / 4
|
1.5 / 3
1.5 / 4
|
2 / 3
1 / 2
|
2 / 5
3 / 5
|
2 / 3
2.5 / 3 |
2 / 6
3.5 / 5
|
1 / 2
1.5 / 2
|
| India |
0 / 3
2 / 3
|
2 / 4
2 / 3 |
|
1 / 3
2 / 3
|
2 / 4
1 / 3
|
0.5 / 2
0 / 2
|
1 / 3
1.5 / 3
|
2 / 5
2.5 / 3 |
1 / 2
2 / 2
|
| New
Zealand |
1.5 / 3
0 / 3
|
2.5 / 4
1.5 / 3
|
1 / 3
2 / 3
|
|
0 / 1
1.5 / 3
|
0.5 / 3
1 / 3
|
1 / 3
2 / 2
|
1.5 / 2
2 / 2
|
2 / 2
0.5 / 1
|
| Pakistan |
0 / 3
0 / 3
|
1 / 2
1 / 3
|
2 / 3
2 / 4 |
1.5 / 3
1 / 1
|
|
1 / 2
1 / 3
|
2.5 / 3
1 / 4
|
1 / 3
2 / 2
|
1.5 / 2
1 / 3
|
| South
Africa |
0 / 3
1 / 3
|
2 / 5
3 / 5
|
2 / 2
1.5 / 2
|
2 / 3
2.5 / 3
|
2 / 3
1 / 2
|
|
1.5 / 3
2.5 / 3
|
3 / 5
5 / 5
|
1 / 1
2 / 2
|
| Sri
Lanka |
0 / 3
2 / 3
|
0.5 / 3
1 / 3
|
1.5 / 3
2 / 3
|
0 / 2
2 / 3
|
3 / 4
0.5 / 3
|
0.5 / 3
1.5 / 3
|
|
0.5 / 2
3 / 3 |
2 / 3
3 / 3
|
| West
Indies |
0 / 5
2 / 4
|
1.5 / 5
4 / 6
|
0.5 / 3
3 / 5
|
0 / 2
0.5 / 2 |
0 / 2
2 / 3
|
0 / 5
2 / 5
|
0 / 3
1.5 / 2
|
|
1.5 / 2
2 / 2 |
| Zimbabwe |
-
0 / 1
|
0.5 / 2
1 / 2
|
0 / 2
1 / 2
|
0.5 / 1
0 / 2
|
2 / 3
0.5 / 2
|
0 / 2
0 / 1
|
0 / 3
1 / 3
|
0 / 2
0.5 / 2
|
|
The current ranking table, Table F, appears below.
| Country |
Performance index
(RBI) |
Rank |
Difference
22.10.02 to 3.11.02 |
| Australia |
75.71 |
1 |
-0.71 |
| South Africa |
56.01 |
2 |
-0.46 |
| New Zealand |
46.86 |
3 |
-0.19 |
| England |
45.96 |
4 |
-0.33 |
| India |
41.31 |
5 |
+0.51 |
| Pakistan |
40.31 |
6 |
+0.04 |
| Sri Lanka |
39.30 |
7 |
-0.23 |
| West Indies |
31.50 |
8 |
-2.03 |
| Zimbabwe |
17.73 |
9 |
-0.13 |
Finally, we take a first look (Table G) at all the possible scenarios in the forthcoming India-New Zealand series. One wonders which of these scenarios would please John Wright the most.
| TABLE G: INDIA VS NEW ZEALAND: ALL SCENARIOS |
| Points break-up (1 point for win, 0.5 for draw, 0 for loss) |
Ind's new index (RBI) |
NZ's new index (RBI) |
remarks |
| Ind: 2, NZ: 0 [India win series 2-0] |
44.22 |
43.98 |
Eng 3, Ind 4, NZ 5 |
| Ind: 1.5, NZ: 0.5 [India win series 1-0] |
43.27 |
45.11 |
Eng 3, NZ 4, Ind 5 |
| Ind: 1, NZ: 1 [Series drawn 1-1 or 0-0] |
42.21 |
46.15 |
NZ 3, Eng 4, Ind 5 |
| Ind: 0.5, NZ: 1.5 [NZ win 1-0] |
41.04 |
47.09 |
NZ 3, Eng 4, Ind 5 |
| Ind: 0, NZ: 2 [NZ win 2-0] |
39.77 |
47.93 |
NZ 3, Pak 5, Ind 6 |
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