July 2, 2007
Bartercard Power Rankings - July 2007
The Twenty20 Cup trio of Surrey, Leicestershire and Somerset have all failed in their bids to cut the gap at the top of the Bartercard Power Rankings in July.
All three counties have seen their overall scores decrease this month but only Surrey have remainedin the same position in the rankings (3rd), Leicestershire drop one place to 5th but after three straight defeats Somerset have dropped seven places and now sit outside the top ten in 12th place.
There is better news though for Warwickshire thanks to a run of four straight victories the Bears have moved up three places into the top ten and now find themselves in 8th place. If they continue this from during the second half of the Twenty20 Cup they could end the month in the top five.
The other big movers this month are the Lancashire Lightning. Going into this years Twenty20 Cup the Lightning sat in 24th place in the Rankings but three big victories this month has seen the Lightning move up eight places to 16th.
The Yorkshire Phoenix have had a horrible month, with only one win under their belts the Phoenix have dropped eleven places from 13th to 24th, its a similar story for the Gloucestershire Gladiators who drop from 16th in the rankings to 24th.
Things are even worse for the Durham Dynamos, a team who have never got to grips with the shortest form of the game, despite beating Leicestershire in a 13 over slog the Dynamos on the back of three heavy defeats have slipped four places in the rankings from 51st to 55th.
For a sixth straight month the Victorian Bushrangers, winners of back to back KFC Big Bash titles remain at the top of the rankings with the Sialkot Stallions in second place.
The Karachi Dolphins have moved up two places in the rankings to 4th while Tamil Nadu (6th) and the Lahore Lions (7th) have both benefited from Somerset’s slip in the rankings and both moved up one place.
The top ten is rounded out by Chilaw Marians CC in 9th and the Faisalabad Wolves, winners of the 2005 ABN-AMRO Twenty20 Cup in 10th.
Bartercard Power Rankings Background
The Bartercard Power Rankings are the only rankings system in the world that rank all domestic Twenty20 teams from England, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India.
The rankings are based on a number of important factors including runs scored, totals chased the loss of wickets and margins of victory. A teams rating is then worked out by dividing the points scored in each game by the number of matches played, the totals are then given to the nearest whole number.
