“An Unparalleled Rivalry: India and Pakistan’s Historic Dominance in World Cup Team Rankings”
An Unparalleled Rivalry: India and Pakistan’s Historic Dominance in World Cup Team Rankings. India’s recent performance in 50-overs cricket means Rohit Sharma’s Side will start this year’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup as the no-1 ranked side on the MRF Tyers ODI Team Rankings.
Recently, India’s team performance in the ODI Games has been brilliant so far. Also, we all know what the Indian team did in the last month of the Asia Cup 2023, team India won the Asia Cup 2023 in Sri Lanka.
A few days ago Indian team won the 3- Match ODI Series against Australia in India. India has lost just four of the 20 ODI matches they have contested in 2023 and as a result, cannot be overtaken as the top-ranked side on the team rankings before the World Cup Begins on October 5.
Pakistan’s Team rating of 115 is just two rating points below that of India. It is worth noting that these rankings will remain unchanged until the start of the World Cup, irrespective of the results of any upcoming matches leading up to the six-week tournament. Pakistan team performance has not been good in the last few days in the ODI matches and also in the Asia Cup Super-4 matches.
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The warm-up matches scheduled to take place before the commencement of the World Cup are not recognized as official One Day International (ODI) matches and do not impact the team rankings.
A comprehensive look at past World Cups suggested that this could potentially be a good sign for both India and Pakistan. It is worth mentioning that in each edition of the tournament since 1999, the victorious team has consistently occupied the top two places on the ODI rankings at the onset of the competition.
India has been presented with an encouraging development in the recent trend of host countries emerging victorious at the World Cup. It is noteworthy that the last three editions of the tournament have been won by nations that hosted the World Cup Final. India will have the opportunity to uphold this trend when the 2023 World Cup Final is held at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on November 19
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India is the exclusive host of the World Cup this year and the current holder of the premier ODI rankings, While all the pressure will be on India. However, Rohit’s team can derive further confidence from the historical success of the previous edition of the tournament by the NO.1 ranked team.
Only once the highest rank team was unable to proceed to the knockout phase of the competition. In 1992, Australia narrowly missed the opportunity to qualify for the semi-finals. Nevertheless, on the ten most recent occasions, the team with the No.1 ranking has successfully made it through to the final match of the tournament on seven occasions.
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