The ranking as it stands now is stale and rigid.
No real opportunity to topple or move up if you beat a higher rank.
Think college football or college basketball where every upset means something in rankings.
Bangladesh shouldn’t have jumped one position after beating PAK, IND & SAF back to back to back a few years back. That jump should have been +5 UP because of opposition rank.
NOW:
the super league conveniently leaves out India Pakistan and an increasingly young Aus away from bangla troubles... which is understandable. Can’t have them put under pressure in the next 3 match series if they drop a series to Ban. That would be a terrible loss of revenue.
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