Ahead of their assembly within the World Test Championship last subsequent month, India have moved previous Australia to No. 1 on the ICC rankings for males's cricket. This shift, though neither workforce has performed any long-form cricket for 2 months, is actually the results of the passage of time and the way some sequence from some time in the past have misplaced a little bit of their worth.

India's tally went from 119 to 121 and Australia's went from 122 to 116 as a result of this replace solely takes into consideration groups' performances after May 2020 and weighs sequence between May 2020 and May 2022 at 50% and those within the following one-year interval at 100%.

Australia misplaced factors as a result of a few of their wins from the earlier cycle not matter on this one - just like the 5-0 scoreline from the 2019-20 dwelling summer time, after they whitewashed Pakistan 2-0 and New Zealand 3-0. Also, the load of their 4-0 Ashes win in opposition to England in 2021-22 was halved.

The remainder of the Test rankings stay unchanged with solely two different groups - New Zealand and South Africa on the 100-point mark. The 2021-23 WTC Cycle is now full with the subsequent one beginning after the ultimate.