ICC ODI Championship

The ICC ODI Championship is a notional competition run by the International Cricket Council in the sport of cricket for the 10 nations that play Test cricket. Kenya, which despite having one day international status no longer appears on the ratings as they have not played the minimum number of matches.

In essence, after every ODI (One Day International) match, the two teams involved receive points based on a mathematical formula. The total of each team's points total is divided by the total number of matches to give a 'rating', and all eleven teams are ranked by order of rating (this can be shown in a table).

By analogy to cricket batting averages, the points for winning an ODI match are greater than the team's rating, increasing the rating, and the points for losing an ODI match are always less than the rating, reducing the rating. A drawn match between higher and lower rated teams will benefits the lower-rated team at the expense of the higher-rated team. An 'average' team that wins as often as it loses while playing a mix of stronger and weaker teams should have a rating of 100.

Ranking of teams

ICC ODI rankings as of November 28, 2005

Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	Australia	27	3672	136
2	South Africa	25	3197	118
3	Pakistan	29	3363	116
4	India	38	4348	109
5	Sri Lanka	28	3041	109
6	England	22	2389	109
7	New Zealand	25	2705	108
8	West Indies	22	1980	90
9	Zimbabwe	23	1012	44
10	Bangladesh	23	322	14