ICC Mens Batting Rankings

The ICC Men's batting rankings is a table where international cricket players' batting performances are ranked with the help of a points based system.

The ICC assigns the rating points to the players through a pre-programmed algorithm that takes into account moving averages. The players are rated on a scale of 0 to 1000 points. So if the player's performance is improving compared to his past record, his points increase. Similarly, if his form shows a dip, his points decrease.

The ICC has developed a system to rate each player’s batting performance within a match. Several factors are taken into account while calculating the points. Apart from the batting performance of the player, the quality of the opposition, conditions as well as the importance of the game is also taken into account.  The system takes into consideration slightly different factors for each of the different formats of the game.

There is a different table for each of the three formats. At present, England's Joe Root is the number one ranked Test batsman in the world. On the other hand, Babar Azam and Travis Head are the number one ranked batsmen in ODIs and T20Is respectively.

As far as updating the rankings is concerned, the ICC decided to shift to a weekly system in 2021. As per this system, the ICC Men's batting rankings are updated on Wednesdays. The updates takes into account all matches completed till the previous day and do not include any matches played on the day of updating.