Dubai : South Africa has replaced England as the number-one ranked side on the Reliance ICC T20I Championship table after the annual update.
However, the number-one T20 ranking, like in the current Test and forthcoming ODI series, will be up for grabs when the reigning ICC World Twenty20 champion England and South Africa go head to head in a three-T20I series starting on 8 September in Chester-le-Street.
Currently, both the sides are separated by one ratings point.
Australia has slipped from sixth position to ninth, as its excellent results in early 2010 have now been removed, while West Indies has moved up from eighth to fifth after benefiting from the exclusion of its results from early 2010.
Only 11 teams are now ranked on the T20I table. The remaining five sides Afghanistan, Canada, Kenya, Netherlands and Scotland have played fewer than eight Twenty20 Internationals since August 2010. These sides will rejoin the table once they have played eight T20 Internationals.
