How India V/s Srilanka Series can affect ICC Rating

When India and Srilanka series started there was huge talk of #2 (in ICC Rating) Team V/s #7 (in rating). Many were predicting a clean wash in favour of Srilanka.

But India have bounced back strongly to win first 4 games and that too very comprehensly. I was just looking how this series can affect the ICC Ratings. If India manages to win the rest of matches too. India will move up to 5th place and Srilanka? make a guess ...7th Place lmfao from 2nd. Isn't that funny? hahaha

Btw you can predict the rating here http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/odi/predictor.html

Thats why cricket is said to be a funny game.

I hope india manges a series wash against Sri Lanka. And also Ganguly should no find a place in the team Very Happy

then surely we will rech bigger heights in the comming series.

Methinks Chappell is beginning to come good, what sayest thou?
And the team seems to be doing well under the Dravid leadership, so if that's what India needs (Ganguly out, Rahul in), then so be it, though personally, I would like to see a fighting Ganguly try to make a come back. Ganguly and Sachin firing full cylinders would still make the best opening pari, methinks... however, lately I've been thinking that Sehwag and Sachin going all cylinders is more ideal Very Happy

By the way, anyone notice how Sachin seems to have recovered his habit of going after the bowlers? I think that is the biggest gain this tournament. Personally, I think Chappell probably had something to do with it.

Dhoni is going to be the biggest discovery of this series. He showed his calibre in the Pak series with a 148. But then there were some 30s and 40s at a strike rate of 100+. Also in the mean time, his wicket keeping quality dropped considerably. Even in this series, he missed quite a few stumping chances. But he paid for all of that with just one innings. And his average shot up from 37 to 49.7.

Likewise we can certainly expect a sudden rise in the ratings for India. Now India is playing more like Team India.

This sure looks like a new indian team...they were very disappointing in few of the earlier series but here I don't know what got into them (and I don't care).
The thing to see is the way whole team esp the youngsters are playing and its great to have Tendular butchering the bowlers again.

Here is a proposed rating change by Rediff

http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/odirank.htm

Man, we should have atleast played Irfan Pathan in the fifth match to put pressure on their batsmen. It was a loss that could have easily been prevented. It's true we have won the series, but a 7-0 whitewash would have done a lot for the team morale.

7-0 wud have been excellent. What a convincing victory it wud have been.

Hmm... end of the final ODI! India wins 6-1. I say the team shouldnt have experimented with their players during the 5th ODI or they could have won all the 7 matches. Dhoni batted superbly today. Waiting to see how the team performs against the South Africans.

I heard two senior players from South Africa wont be coming to India due to fears of getting arrested by the Indian police(I ask, is that possible???).

yeah that is funny now that India has won the series 6-1. What ranking has India moved up to?

There is an ICC Rank Predictor in the ICC site by which you can predict the ratings by inputing the possible match results.