Ireland cricket side tops ODI rankings
The Ireland cricket side has gone top of the ICC Associate ODI Rankings after previous leader Scotland was beaten by Kenya in a one-day international in Mombasa today.
Kenya today beat Scotland by 192 runs, dropping the Scots’ win rate down to 71 per cent, four percentage points below Ireland.
Scotland will get the chance to repair some of the damage tomorrow (Thursday), though, as it takes on Canada in Mombasa as part of an ongoing ODI tri-series in the east-coast Kenyan city. A win tomorrow will bring Craig Wright’s team back level with the Irish.
A win for Canada, on the other hand, will lift it off the bottom of the table and above Bermuda into fourth place.
These are the early stages of the ICC Associate ODI Rankings. Following the ICC Trophy in 2005, ODI status was granted to matches involving the teams that came in the top five (Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Bermuda and the Netherlands) as part of their preparation for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007.
