SA came in with 100% resources. India managed to hold on with just 70% resouces or even less, without the spin dens. Definitely India for me. They may not have done 100% for meriting that. But SA did not either.Who is the number one side in the world right now? Can anything be taken from the series just finished in India? Seems to have raised more questions than it was supposed to answer.
I dunno - beating WI & Pakistan at home doesn't cope for being the only side apart from WI & NZ to lose in England in the last 3 years.Kinda agree with Pasag here. Still No Clear cut winner. India have holes in its bowling, SA in their batting. Infact looking more closely, Aussie team looks more balanced right now.
Aussie side look balanced but lacks resources to take down a batting lineup that of India. SA have a one man army in Steyn.Kinda agree with Pasag here. Still No Clear cut winner. India have holes in its bowling, SA in their batting. Infact looking more closely, Aussie team looks more balanced right now.
Me IMO.5 test series home and away all three playing each other on ITC. Who is simming?
It never does. It's a rolling thing. Series results only get replaced when another series between the same teams at the same host country happens instead of it.Technically India, but they're so close these days that I don't think you can objectively say India are the best team. The ICC system doesn't really mean much at this stage.
Yet the team has somehow contrived to win all its series since 2008 season ended, except the just concluded series.I dont understand why people can clearly put India on the top. Rankings are just rankings, I think South Africa, Australia and India are right up there. I dont see any international side walking up to face the Indian bowling line up and feeling the least bit threatened or intimidated. Their batting line up I think is easily the best in the world though but its really potent strike bowling that wins test matches in the long haul.
The mathematical model is a product of the human initiative.It never does. It's a rolling thing. Series results only get replaced when another series between the same teams at the same host country happens instead of it.
The reality, though, is that teams have very specific finite "terms". A team is only as good as the players within it, and the fact is that the calibre of teams go up and down, because players get better and worse, and come and go, and there is no way to ensure that this happens at the same time for each team.
Thus the best way to look at who is best is to use human initiative, not a fixed mathematical calculation.