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How the ODI rankings work?
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April 21, 2003 India second, South Africa thirdM J Manohar Rao and Srinivas BhogleThe wet end to the TVS Cup makes one wonder if all that sweating at temperatures over 40 deg C was really worth the effort. In the end, South Africa (47.42) probably gained a little; they started looking like a team again and the new captain eventually discovered that Shaun Pollock could indeed open the bowling. India (51.58) found out that their bench strength was a little suspect, and that Ajit Agarkar's economy rate is never likely to come down. Australia (73.52) stay at the top -- and might stay there for a very long time. Sri Lanka (46.14), still fourth, must hope that the post-World Cup blues don't hit them again; although the signs don't appear propitious: they've again sacked Whatmore and changed captains. Table A shows the Rediff ODI rankings as on April 21, 2003. Since the Rediff ODI index (ODI RBI) combines two indices: the weighted index (WI) -- that considers the 'strength of the opposition' and the 'home-away' factor -- and the tournament index (TI) that rewards teams with a winning record in tournaments played during the last 12 months (the 'big match' performers), it gives a much better indication of the true current form of the top ODI-playing teams.
Pakistan (40.37), West Indies (29.66), New Zealand (29.37) and England (27.60) retain the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth positions. India continue to be trapped at the fifth place in the ICC ODI ratings, but there's a way out of the quagmire: play a series of 35 matches against Bangladesh, win all 35 matches and become the ICC "world champions" of one-day cricket! Details The weighted index (WI) is calculated based on the ODI scorecard that appears below as Table B. Details of the WI calculation appear elsewhere on Rediff.
We next present the details of how the tournament index (TI) is computed. The TI is based on a time 'window' spanning the past 12 and odd months (currently this window spans the period April 2002 to April 2003). During the past 12 months there have been eight tournaments featuring three or more teams, including the 2003 World Cup (see Table C1) and 10 'tournaments' featuring only two teams (see Table C2).
We total up the entries of Tables C1 and C2 in Table C to list the overall tournament index for all the top nine ODI-playing teams.
Readers might find it strange that the TVS Cup result figures in Table C2 instead of Table C1. Since we do not include Bangladesh in the Rediff ODI ratings, the 'triangular series' involving India, South Africa and Bangladesh is effectively an ODI series between India and South Africa. Srinivas Bhogle adds: This is the first update after M J Manohar Rao's tragic departure on 19 April 2003. I am sure that I can persuade Rediff, and indeed all our readers, to agree that all updates of the Rediff cricket ratings will continue to carry Manohar's name as the first author. I still recall how this idea of a new cricket rating scheme first came up: Manohar was a member of an expert group of economists advising the Chief Minister of Karnataka some two years ago. After doing a typically scholarly and exhaustive rating of all the talukas of Karnataka, Manohar was thinking of a fun variant of his rating method: "why not rate all test cricket playing teams using the same method?", he asked me. And, yet, cricket wasn't really Manohar's first love; he would have chosen to watch a film like "Battle of the Bulge" (even for the twentieth time!) instead of a test match. The rich statistical variety of cricket scores and results however truly fascinated him. For the last few months he was excited with his proposal to 'buy' and 'sell' cricketers' abilities as if they were shares at a stock market (that went on to become Rediff's "Fantasy Cricket"), about his proposed variant of the Duckworth/Lewis method and most of all about his concept of a 'pressure index' in ODI cricket. It seems unbearably cruel that a heart attack should vanquish someone so clever and generous. Manohar was only 51; he wasn't supposed to go so soon.
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