India hold a 13-point lead at the top of the ICC Men's T20I rankings after the May annual update
India have stayed at the top of the ICC Men's T20I team rankings after the annual update released on Tuesday, with 275 points and a 13-point cushion over second-placed England. The reigning T20 World Cup champions also have the Asia Cup and series wins over Australia, South Africa and New Zealand on the ledger from the past 12 months, and the new ratings reflect that.
India 275, England 262, Australia 258 at the top
England are second on 262 points after the recalculation. Australia sit a close third on 258. New Zealand follow on 247, with South Africa on 244, Pakistan on 240 and the West Indies on 233, all retaining the ranks they held going into the update. The shape of the table that came out of the cycle is the shape India have spent the year pulling away from rather than reshuffling.
The annual exercise is the larger of the ICC's regular reweighting cycles. Matches played since May 2025 are counted at full weight, while the previous two years drop to half. Anything older than that falls out of the table entirely. The mechanism is built to refresh the standings around recent form without throwing them around on the back of a single short series.
A 13-point lead built on a finished World Cup year
The 13-point gap is the headline number. India go into the next 12-month cycle with a buffer that means a single bad series will not cost them top spot, which has not always been true at the top of the T20I table. England's bilateral schedule and Australia's reset under their current group will both have to land for either side to close the difference inside the year.
For India, the more interesting line in the update is that the 50 per cent weighting now applies to matches dating back to May 2023 — squarely into a phase the team has spent the past two years moving on from. The full-weight window covers the World Cup and Asia Cup runs, the home wins, and most of the team-building around the post-T20 World Cup squad. That is the body of work the new No.1 rating is built on, and it is the body of work the rest of the table now has to chase down.
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