harsh.ag
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
What could have possibly happened in March 2001.... It's a toughie.SA might have got to number 1 briefly in 99 since Australia lost in SL, but how'd they get there in 01?
What could have possibly happened in March 2001.... It's a toughie.SA might have got to number 1 briefly in 99 since Australia lost in SL, but how'd they get there in 01?
That's hard to believe in any sensible ranking system. Australia lost 1 series in 2001 which came immediately after 16 straight test wins. Losing the number 1 ranking after that is absurd. I'd be surprised if SA had anything like 16 wins out of their last 18 tests or anything even approaching it.But south Africa briefly took the number 1 after 99.
South Africa - Aug 01 to Aug 01 - 1 month
They are just spoilsports. That one month cost Australia an untouchable streak of over 110 months
What could have possibly happened in March 2001.... It's a toughie.
FFS, hang your head in shame OS
I know that morons. I don't see how two test defeats to India I that series drops them down the rankings when they had sixteen wins on the trot before that.a dark moment for os there
Because, unlike Australia they crushed India in India, didn't lose in Sri Lanka and beat the Windies away, all feats that proved to be beyond Steve Waugh's "ATG" team. Their 16 match winning streak was based almost entirely on matches at home and in New Zealand. Australia wouldn't improve their away record until later in the decade.SA might have got to number 1 briefly in 99 since Australia lost in SL, but how'd they get there in 01?
dont ZohaibI know that morons. I don't see how two test defeats to India I that series drops them down the rankings when they had sixteen wins on the trot before that.
Yeah none of those are really legitimate reasons. Also kind of sounds like you've got a bit of a chip on your shoulder.Because, unlike Australia they crushed India in India, didn't lose in Sri Lanka and beat the Windies away, all feats that proved to be beyond Steve Waugh's "ATG" team. Their 16 match winning streak was based almost entirely on matches at home and in New Zealand. Australia wouldn't improve their away record until later in the decade.
There's no distinction at all. One of the main reasons India are no.1 right now.Sorry to show my ignorance but Is there a distinction between home and away series regarding ranking? I know that they consider opposition rankings and that they take a 5 year rotational policy with half-points for the last 3 years and full points for 2 years? Or have I got it totally wrong. I only ask because then it would have made no difference if Aus played home or away?
The irony in it is so cuteYeah none of those are really legitimate reasons. Also kind of sounds like you've got a bit of a chip on your shoulder.
But by the same token you'd be guaranteed to lose the no. 1 ranking during the "away cycle"A streak of home games preferentially rewards you while they are within the period of full weighting (presuming you are good enough to win them, of course). India has worked it out first and by playing blocks of home series and then blocks of away series, can expect to regularly see a #1 ranking each cycle, which is all the fans want.
Have you noticed who you're replying to?Yeah none of those are really legitimate reasons. Also kind of sounds like you've got a bit of a chip on your shoulder.
I think it has to do with variation of pitch... struggle in Durban with a large local Indian support base, but it also seems a hoodoo ground. Lost to India, SL, Eng and Aus there last ten years. Then also lost to Aus and England at Wanderers and Centurion. PE tends to be slow and low compared to the rest of the country and offers opportunity to SC teams, but we tend to draw there rather than lose. **** irritating as a SA supporter. But I do think this pitch variation has also given us our good away record....Why do SA perform so well away from home and so **** at home (comparative to other top sides)?
It's weird
What matters most is getting to number 1 - not staying there. If you can schedule it so that you can get to number 1 quite regularly that is a very good thing. Fans get the chance to talk superior, years after the event. Time does not matter when you're memory is selective. In those periods of loss fans can simply dismiss it with 'giving you losers a taste of it as charity' kind of thing.But by the same token you'd be guaranteed to lose the no. 1 ranking during the "away cycle"