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India becomes number 1 team in ICC rankings of all three formats of cricket
Last night, the Indian cricket team defeated Australia in Mohali and achieved the first position in the ICC ODI rankings.
With this, the Indian team simultaneously occupied the first position in the ICC rankings for all three formats of cricket, ODI, T20 and Test.
11 years ago in August 2012, the South African cricket team had achieved the same feat.
In the ODI rankings, India has reached 116 points, while Pakistan (115) remains at the second position and Australia remains at the third position with 111 points.
Many fans are seeing this success of the Indian team as an omen just before the ODI World Cup 2023. India is the host country of the ODI World Cup. The World Cup is going to start from the first week of next month.
Team India’s spirits are high
Pakistan team is facing the problem of injured players just before the upcoming World Cup, so slipping from the number-1 position can also affect the morale of the team.
This victory over the Kangaroos is also significant because the Indian team which defeated the regular Australian team did not have four regular players including the captain.
Rohit Sharma along with vice-captain Hardik Pandya, former captain Virat Kohli, Mohammad Siraj, who won the trophy for the team by taking six wickets in the final of the Asia Cup, and Kuldeep Yadav, who was the ‘Player of the Tournament’, were not present in the team.
During this, the Indian team for the World Cup was announced. The Indian team won the Asia Cup and last night when it faced Australia, Mohammed Shami took five wickets while Suryakumar Yadav also scored a half-century. Therefore, the selection of the team to take the field during the World Cup is sure to become a matter of headache for the management.
Although there is already advocating for keeping Mohammed Shami in the playing eleven, but after this match there was reaction on social media also.
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Mohammed Shami got a chance
Journalist Zia Us Salam wrote on Faster than Shoaib Akhtar and Brett Lee, he has the record of scoring 100 wickets. Amazing!”
Another user AB Abhishek Describing the figures, he wrote, “Mohammed Shami’s career average is 25.4 with a strike rate of 27.3. In the matches in which Shami played, Bumrah (average 30.5 and strike rate 38.2), Kuldeep (average 31.5 and strike rate 35.3), Shardul Thakur (average 50.5 and strike rate 42.8), Hardik Pandya (average 25.4 and strike rate 28.2), Mohammed Siraj (average 18.9 and strike rate 20.9).”
Similarly, people are also talking about Suryakumar Yadav’s performance in ODIs after T20.
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What are people writing on social media?
India has two more matches in this ODI series, while it also has to play a practice match before the tournament. If India wins the ODI series, its reign at number 1 in the ICC rankings will remain intact. But in case of defeat, Pakistan will once again come to number-1.
After India became number one, former Indian cricketers including Irfan Pathan congratulated the team by giving their respective reactions on the social network site X. Many memes were shared on getting the number 1 crown from Pakistan.
When Pakistan became the number 1 team, Babar Azam had given his reaction regarding it. Shoaib Akhtar congratulated the team, but when it slipped from the rankings, no one reacted.
There was very little news regarding this in Pakistani media also. Yes, some people are definitely writing on social media.
One user wrote, “One or two matches do not decide your ranking or position. India was at third or fourth position before the Asia Cup and now they are at the top. According to your thinking, when Pakistan was number-1, did Indians The team was a normal team?”
One UseSu wrote, “Congratulations Team India. You deserve to be number 1.”
Another user wrote, “Some cricket experts of Pakistan do not give correct opinion, they expressed great happiness when Pakistan became number-1. They remained at number-1 only for a few weeks. If you look at the last 10-15 years. So for most of this time India has been the No. 1 team. From time to time the senior players are not in the match to give a chance to the next one.”
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Follower of Babar Azam
However, there is no doubt that whether it is ODI or Test, ranking alone does not decide the outcome of the match and that is why many experts commented on last night’s match and praised Surya Kumar Yadav as well as the preparations for the World Cup. Gave his comment regarding the ranking but did not say anything about the ranking.
Commentator Harsh Bhogle is also included among these experts.
He writes, “It is good to see that India is looking more prepared with every match.”
Here, when Gautam Gambhir was asked during a program as to who will be the most watched in this World Cup, he took the name of Pakistan captain Babar Azam.
He said, “Babar Azam has every quality which can bring life to this World Cup. I believe that there are players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson, David Warner, Joe Root but Babar Azam has a different level of quality. Is.”
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Pakistan again has a chance to become number 1
Despite winning the Asia Cup, India was second in the ICC ODI rankings, while Pakistan was at the first position even after not reaching the finals.
On the other hand, both India and Australia had a chance to become the number 1 team.
Australia lost that chance in the series against South Africa. Now they lost the first match of the three-match ODI series with India in Mohali.
Australia remains at the third position with 111 points and now Australia will not be able to become the number 1 team in the ICC rankings before the World Cup, even if it wins the next two matches of this series.
If India wins this series 2-1, it will get 116 points in the ODI rankings and if it wins 3-0, it will get 118 points.
On the other hand, if Australia wins the next two matches, then Pakistan and India will have equal points but the Pakistani team will again regain the number-1 crown of ICC ODI rankings.
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