ICC T20I RANKING

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
Sri Lanka	21	2173	128
India	19	1843	123
South Africa	27	2580	123
Pakistan	35	3005	120
West Indies	22	2041	120
England	28	2357	112
New Zealand	26	2061	103
Australia	26	2047	102
Ireland	13	659	82
Afghanistan	11	722	72
Bangladesh	15	791	72
Scotland	10	453	57
Netherlands	9	307	51
Zimbabwe	16	553	46
Kenya	13	456	41

ICC ODI RANKING

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
India	53	6535	123
Australia	42	4808	114
England	42	4671	111
Sri Lanka	51	5605	110
South Africa	39	4235	109
Pakistan	50	4907	98
West Indies	41	3639	89
New Zealand	34	2899	85
Bangladesh	26	2165	83
Zimbabwe	26	1439	55
Ireland	11	423	38
Netherlands	7	88	13
Kenya	4	40	10

ICC TEST RANKING

Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	South Africa	27	3531	131
2	India	33	3920	119
3	England	38	4407	116
4	Pakistan	25	2538	102
5	Australia	33	3318	101
6	West Indies	25	2366	95
7	Sri Lanka	26	2295	88
8	New Zealand	30	2243	75
9	Zimbabwe	11	372	34
10	Bangladesh	16	285	18

ICC rankings for Tests, ODIs and Twenty20

ICC Test Championship

24 March 2013

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
South Africa	36	4601	128
England	41	4825	118
India	42	4714	112
Australia	47	5191	110
Pakistan	33	3444	104
Sri Lanka	39	3574	92
West Indies	34	3112	92
New Zealand	30	2333	78
Bangladesh	18	20	1

Zimbabwe is currently unranked, as it has played insufficient matches. It has 167 points and a rating of 42.

ICC ODI Championship

24 March 2013

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
India	38	4514	119
England	33	3849	117
Australia	37	4285	116
South Africa	26	2940	113
Sri Lanka	40	4419	110
Pakistan	36	3824	106
West Indies	33	2823	86
New Zealand	26	2124	82
Bangladesh	22	1696	77
Zimbabwe	17	804	47
Ireland	6	207	35
Netherlands	4	63	16
Kenya	4	45	11

ICC Twenty20 Championship

3 March 2013

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
Sri Lanka	17	1838	131
West Indies	20	2008	126
India	18	1789	119
Pakistan	29	2491	119
England	25	2235	118
South Africa	22	1934	114
Australia	23	1843	102
New Zealand	24	1867	98
Bangladesh	11	668	84
Ireland	12	659	82
Zimbabwe	12	373	41

The following teams are not ranked as fewer than eight T20I matches played since August 2010. Afghanistan; Netherlands; Scotland; Canada & Kenya.

Rankings table devised, developed and maintained by David Kendix, member of ICC Cricket Committee

Apple Plugs Password Security Hole

Apple has fixed a security hole that made it easy for someone to seize another person’s Apple account, which controls access to iCloud, iTunes and other Apple services.

The company made the password reset page for Apple ID accountsavailable again, not long after the discovery of the security hole forced it to take the site down. The Verge reported on Friday that the security hole allowed anybody who knows another user’s account name and date of birth to reset his password, without answering the customary security questions that usually accompany the process.

The Verge, which said it verified the security hole after a tutorial about it was posted online, reported that it involved pasting a special Web address into a browser.

The discovery came just days after Apple introduced a feature called two-step verification to improve the security of Apple ID accounts. The feature requires people to a use conventional password in conjunction with a code they receive on a cellphone in order to initially gain access to their Apple account from a new device.

DUBAI: Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said on Friday he would definitely return home on Sunday to contest historic elections in May and that he was prepared to risk any danger to his life.

He made the remarks in an interview with AFP in Dubai just hours after a Pakistani court granted himprotective bail in a string of legal cases, paving the way for his return from nearly five years in exile without the risk of immediate arrest.

Musharraf, who seized power in 1999 and left the country after stepping down in 2008, is wanted in Pakistan for conspiracy to murder and illegally arresting judges.

“Two hundred percent! I am travelling back on Sunday to Pakistan,” he told AFP in Dubai, where he has divided his time with London since stepping down as head of state in August 2008.

“I will go by land, air or sea, whatever… even to the peril of my life this is the oath I took for the country,” said the former army chief of staff.

The outgoing government led by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) always insisted that Musharraf would be arrested should be return to the country and last year he delayed a planned homecoming after being threatened with detention.

A parliamentary committee could later Friday agree on a candidate to head up an interim government which will rule during the election campaign.

“There will be no arrest or anything,” Musharraf told AFP. “I decided I will go back whatever the judgment (in court) but the judgment is favourable,” he said

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday granted General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s request for protective bail in various cases pending against him.

The court moreover directed the former president to submit bail money amounting to rupees 100,000.

The 10-day-long protective bail was approved in response to a constitutional petition filed in the SHC by Musharraf’s daughter Ayla Raza on behalf of her father.  The petition requested the court for protective bail so that the former ruler could appear in the trial court to defend himself.

The petition said Musharraf  planned to return to the country but apprehended arrest for his alleged involvement in different cases, including Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Akbar Bugti’ murder and the Lal Masjid operation case in which scores were killed