India have been formidable at home over the past year and a half, but a tour of South Africa was always going to be tough: the team duly lost their first two matches, before restoring some pride (though with the series already lost) in a match played on a terrible pitch. Adding in the result of the last game, India recover some of their previous rating (which had peaked at 212 in the autumn, but had fallen to 157 after their two defeats here) while South Africa fail to sustain the position above Australia they briefly took after their two victories.
India 174 +17
Australia 141
South Africa 129 -17
New Zealand 73
Sri Lanka 29
England 24
Pakistan -27
West Indies -86
Bangladesh -135
Zimbabwe -322
The offical ratings are much less favourable to Australia (for reasons I'm not clear about, and already had South Africa ahead even before this series; the update (for the series as a whole) merely reduces the gap between whay were already considered the two best teams:
India 121 -3
South Africa 115 +4
Australia 104
New Zealand 100
England 99
Sri Lanka 94
Pakistan 88
West Indies 72
Bangladesh 72
Zimbabwe 1
Tomorrow, Bangladesh begin a two test series against Sri Lanka (and remember, they won when they played in Sri Lanka last year).
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