India, Australia retain top positions in men’s and women’s T20I team rankings after annual update

India and Australia have retained their positions at the top of the ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings and the ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings, respectively, following the annual updates carried out on Tuesday.

The latest rankings, which rate all matches played since May 2025 at 100 per cent and those of the previous two years at 50 per cent, see India’s lead over England trimmed from 14 to 13 points in the men’s table while Australia’s lead over England in the women’s rankings has reduced from 18 to 12

points.

India, who retained their title in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup played in India and Sri Lanka this year, are on 275 points, still enjoying a comfortable lead over England (262) and Australia a close third with 258 points in the updated rankings, which see the top seven positions unchanged. New Zealand (247), South Africa (244), Pakistan (240) and the West Indies (233) are the other teams in the top 10 to have retained their positions.

Sri Lanka have dropped six rating points and slipped below Bangladesh to ninth position and are now just one point ahead of Afghanistan while the USA have leapfrogged the Netherlands and Scotland to take 13th position. In other movements in the top 20, Nepal have overtaken the United Arab Emirates to 17th position while Oman have moved past Canada to 19th.

In other notable changes, Italy have gained 11 points and moved from 26th to 23rd, Spain’s 12-point gain sees them advance from 30th to 26th, Cyprus have gained 10 points to progress from 64th to 53rd and Eswatini have gained 10 points to move from 74th to 65th.

Mozambique are the biggest losers, dropping 15 places to 87th position after the latest update that sees a reduction in the number of ranked teams from 102 to 98 with Fiji, Gambia, Greece and Israel not making the cut as they did not play the requisite eight T20Is in the past three years.

The Women’s T20I Rankings sees an unchanged top 16 teams with Australia No.1 with 287 points, England on 275 and India third with 264.

New Zealand (253), South Africa (243) and the West Indies (238) complete the lineup from fourth to sixth with Sri Lanka (237) closing the gap to just one point while retaining seventh place. Similarly, Bangladesh are just one point behind ninth-placed Ireland after gaining five points.

The USA have moved from 22nd to 20th and Germany from 35th to 29th after the latest update, that sees 78 teams ranked after having played at least eight T20Is over the past three years.

Cambodia have dropped out of the rankings and need to play four more matches to regain their ranking while Peru are no longer rated as they have not played any match for three years.

2026 Men's T20I annual update:

Country	Old rating	New rating	Change	Old ranking	New ranking	Change
India	273	275	2	1	1	0
England	259	262	3	2	2	0
Australia	258	258	0	3	3	0
New Zealand	248	247	-1	4	4	0
South Africa	245	244	-1	5	5	0
Pakistan	238	240	2	6	6	0
West Indies	235	233	-2	7	7	0
Bangladesh	224	225	1	9	8	1
Sri Lanka	227	221	-6	8	9	-1
Afghanistan	221	220	-1	10	10	0
Zimbabwe	202	202	0	11	11	0
Ireland	200	199	-1	12	12	0
USA	177	183	6	15	13	2
Netherlands	181	180	-1	13	14	-1
Scotland	181	179	-2	14	15	-1
Namibia	177	178	1	16	16	0
Nepal	175	178	3	18	17	1
UAE	175	174	-1	17	18	-1
Oman	151	158	7	20	19	1
Canada	152	149	-3	19	20	-1
Uganda	142	144	2	21	21	0
PNG	136	139	3	22	22	0
Italy	122	133	11	26	23	3
Malaysia	124	126	2	25	24	1
Hong Kong	128	125	-3	24	25	-1
Spain	113	125	12	30	26	4
Kuwait	128	124	-4	23	27	-4
Qatar	118	119	1	27	28	-1
Bahrain	117	119	2	29	29	0
Jersey	117	115	-2	28	30	-2
Bermuda	113	113	0	31	31	0
Saudi Arabia	109	109	0	32	32	0
Kenya	106	104	-2	33	33	0
Tanzania	100	99	-1	34	34	0
Germany	89	87	-2	35	35	0
Guernsey	77	81	4	37	36	1
Cayman Islands	77	80	3	38	37	1
Nigeria	79	78	-1	36	38	-2
Portugal	71	76	5	40	39	1
Japan	69	72	3	43	40	3
Singapore	75	70	-5	39	41	-2
Austria	69	70	1	42	42	0
Denmark	70	69	-1	41	43	-2
Norway	63	61	-2	44	44	0
Sweden	55	59	4	46	45	1
Argentina	50	54	4	47	46	1
Switzerland	49	53	4	49	47	2
Belgium	57	52	-5	45	48	-3
Finland	49	48	-1	50	49	1
Botswana	48	48	0	51	50	1
Philippines	45	47	2	55	51	4
Malawi	46	46	0	52	52	0
Cyprus	36	46	10	64	53	11
Romania	45	45	0	53	54	-1
France	50	45	-5	48	55	-7
Ghana	37	40	3	62	56	6
Thailand	40	40	0	58	57	1
Rwanda	39	40	1	61	58	3
Bahamas	42	40	-2	56	59	-3
Indonesia	36	38	2	63	60	3
Cambodia	39	38	-1	60	61	-1
Isle of Man	45	37	-8	54	62	-8
Czechia	41	37	-4	57	63	-6
Cook Islands	39	35	-4	59	64	-5
Eswatini	24	34	10	74	65	9
Samoa	29	34	5	68	66	2
Vanuatu	35	32	-3	66	67	-1
Hungary	29	30	1	67	68	-1
Malta	26	29	3	71	69	2
Zambia	29	29	0	69	70	-1
Estonia	28	26	-2	70	71	-1
Gibraltar	19	24	5	78	72	6
Mexico	18	21	3	80	73	7
Belize	21	21	0	77	74	3
Bhutan	21	20	-1	76	75	1
Panama	21	20	-1	75	76	-1
Luxembourg	18	16	-2	79	77	2
Serbia	11	14	3	83	78	5
Cameroon	8	12	4	86	79	7
Sierra Leone	18	12	-6	81	80	1
Brazil	12	12	0	82	81	1
Bulgaria	7	11	4	87	82	5
Maldives	10	9	-1	84	83	1
South Korea	6	9	3	88	84	4
Suriname	10	8	-2	85	85	0
Seychelles	4	7	3	90	86	4
Mozambique	26	7	-19	72	87	-15
China	5	5	0	89	88	1
Turkey	2	4	2	92	89	3
Costa Rica	4	0	-4	91	90	1
Croatia	0	0	0	94	90	4
Lesotho	0	0	0	94	90	4
Mali	0	0	0	94	90	4
Mongolia	0	0	0	94	90	4
Myanmar	0	0	0	94	90	4
Slovenia	0	0	0	94	90	4
St Helena	0	0	0	94	90	4
Timor-Leste	0	0	0	94	90	4

2026 Women's T20I annual update

Country	Old rating	New rating	Change	Old ranking	New ranking	Change
Australia	295	287	-8	1	1	0
England	277	275	-2	2	2	0
India	263	264	1	3	3	0
New Zealand	256	253	-3	4	4	0
South Africa	245	243	-2	5	5	0
West Indies	237	238	1	6	6	0
Sri Lanka	230	237	7	7	7	0
Pakistan	217	216	-1	8	8	0
Ireland	198	200	2	9	9	0
Bangladesh	194	199	5	10	10	0
Scotland	160	162	2	11	11	0
Thailand	153	151	-2	12	12	0
PNG	144	141	-3	13	13	0
Netherlands	136	140	4	14	14	0
UAE	131	136	5	15	15	0
Zimbabwe	125	123	-2	16	16	0
Uganda	113	111	-2	17	17	0
Namibia	108	105	-3	18	18	0
Tanzania	103	102	-1	19	19	0
USA	93	98	5	22	20	2
Nepal	94	94	0	21	21	0
Indonesia	96	94	-2	20	22	-2
Hong Kong	90	90	0	23	23	0
Rwanda	84	85	1	25	24	1
Italy	84	84	0	24	25	-1
Nigeria	76	79	3	26	26	0
Switzerland	72	72	0	27	27	0
Malaysia	69	72	3	28	28	0
Germany	56	66	10	35	29	6
Vanuatu	62	65	3	33	30	3
Kenya	69	64	-5	29	31	-2
Canada	63	63	0	30	32	-2
Brazil	57	63	6	34	33	1
Spain	62	59	-3	32	34	-2
Jersey	62	55	-7	31	35	-4
Oman	51	52	1	36	36	0
Isle of Man	44	47	3	39	37	2
Sweden	46	46	0	38	38	0
Cyprus	42	45	3	40	39	1
Myanmar	46	44	-2	37	40	-3
Japan	42	42	0	41	41	0
Sierra Leone	41	38	-3	42	42	0
Bhutan	30	36	6	49	43	6
France	25	35	10	52	44	8
China	34	34	0	45	45	0
Botswana	30	32	2	50	46	4
Gibraltar	36	32	-4	43	47	-4
Turkey	29	31	2	51	48	3
Kuwait	31	30	-1	47	49	-2
Guernsey	34	30	-4	44	50	-6
Samoa	31	30	-1	48	51	-3
Denmark	33	29	-4	46	52	-6
Romania	24	28	4	53	53	0
Austria	20	23	3	56	54	2
Greece	23	20	-3	55	55	0
Malawi	19	20	1	57	56	1
Estonia	16	20	4	60	57	3
Norway	14	19	5	64	58	6
Fiji	16	18	2	61	59	2
Malta	12	15	3	65	60	5
Qatar	17	15	-2	59	61	-2
Serbia	14	13	-1	62	62	0
Argentina	17	13	-4	58	63	-5
Croatia	24	12	-12	54	64	-10
Luxembourg	10	12	2	66	65	1
Mozambique	14	10	-4	63	66	-3
Cameroon	7	9	2	67	67	0
Lesotho	3	3	0	69	68	1
Singapore	4	2	-2	68	69	-1
Philippines	2	1	-1	70	70	0
Bahrain	0	0	0	72	71	1
Belgium	0	0	0	72	71	1
Bulgaria	0	0	0	72	71	1
Cook Islands	0	0	0	71	71	0
Czechia	0	0	0	72	71	1
Eswatini	0	0	0	72	71	1
Finland	0	0	0	72	71	1
Mongolia	0	0	0	72	71	1