India on Thursday climbed up a position and regained its number one ranking in Twenty20 Internationals after the annual update of the ICC Rankings announced here Thursday.
The Indian side swapped places with 2014 ICC World T20 champions Sri Lanka.
In the past 12 months, India has lost just one T20 against Sri Lanka in the recent ICC WT20 final in Bangladesh, while Sri Lanka has lost four matches.
The 2013-2014 results are weighted at 100% whereas the results of 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 are now weighted at 50%. Therefore, Sri Lanka’s strong performances in those two earlier years now count for less.
In another major move in the table, the West Indies slipped two places to be ranked seventh. Australia and New Zealand went up by one place each to claim the fifth and sixth spots, respectively.
In all, 14 countries have played sufficient T20 internationals to be ranked.
