Recently, India's world rating has soared to its all-time high, but exclusely on the back of a brilliant set of results at home. That's not nothing, but given the increasing role that home advantage seems to play in test matches, for the current Indian side to truly be considered among the all-time great teams, it needs to add some away success. And its current tour of South Africa has, perhaps, exposed its limitations - the first two matches of the series have both been reasonably close games, but they've also both been lost by the visting side. India have one game remaining to save some pride, and if they avoid defeat, will remain top of the rankings for now. But the winners of the series later this winter between South Africa and Australia will surely have a legitmate claim to be the best team in the world.
So with that one match left, here's how the ratings currently stand:
India 157 -20
South Africa 146 +20
Australia 141
New Zealand 73
Sri Lanka 29
England 24
Pakistan -27
West Indies -86
Bangladesh -135
Zimbabwe -322
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