Wednesday, 25 December 2019

Vaughan calls ICC rankings ‘absolute garbage’ over England, NZ’s position

India are currently ranked number one in ICC Test team rankings, followed by New Zealand, South Africa, England and Australia
Ben Stokes, right, with Jack Leach celebrates after scoring the winning runs on the fourth day of the 3rd Ashes Test cricket match between England and Australia at Headingley cricket ground in Leeds
Sports News: Previous England chief Michael Vaughan has hammered the International Cricket Council’s positioning framework, naming it as “outright trash”. India are at present positioned number one in ICC Test group rankings, trailed by New Zealand, South Africa, England and Australia.
The cricketer-turned-pundit feels New Zealand and England don’t have the right to get the second and fourth spot in the ICC Test rankings as they haven’t won enough Test arrangement over the most recent two years. “I will be dead legitimate about the ICC rankings. I think they are total trash,” Vaughan was cited as saying by the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.
“I have no clue how – New Zealand have prevailed upon a lot of arrangement the course of the most recent two years – yet for them to be second, and where it stands apart for me that the rankings can’t be correct is that England in Test coordinate cricket are third, and England for three or four years have battled in Test coordinate cricket, especially abroad,” he said.
The 45-year-old, who has captained England Test group from 2003 to 2008, said the ICC positioning is befuddling. “They have won arrangement at home. They have just barely attracted the Ashes English conditions, they just barely beat Ireland. I think the rankings are somewhat befuddling…

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