barring slipping to second occasionally due to a scheduling anomaly and then getting straight back up, india stay at the top until early 2020 after journeying in to the house of the warner and getting bludgeoned on australia's roads 4-0
australia however don't ascend to the top instead ascending to second as india drop to fourth, south africa to third and england take a big jump after they wail on weak touring teams in the previous home summer
new zealand take the poms 1-1 in february and australia take first after a carribean holiday, being challenged though not beaten by a plucky west indies that they still beat 3-0 in a 4 test series with a scorecard not indicative of the closeness of the tests. pakistan clash with india at least in the desert sands and beat them 3-1, but collapse in spectacular fashion to lose to fellow -stan afghanistan in the following series, afrghanistan getting their first series win against not zimbo or bangers.
the summer of 2020 sees saffers doing over sri lanka way up in the mountains of the highveld and taking first after new zealand play spoiler in a tour of the big brother, while in a shocking twist of events sri lanka draw with india in their own back yard and england pull one over bangladesh in what proves to be the peak of english spin bowling for the next couple of years
pakistan and the west indies duke it out in the sun in 2021 and pakistan take the chocolates, and aus take south africa in south africa to reclaim first and the mace for most of the year. zimbabwe take a trip to bangladesh and come out with nothing but return home to take afghanistan, who then in turn produce two big roads to draw a series nil all with india. new zealand and sri lanka meet again but in sri lanka as the boys from colombo spin a web around new zealand with the aid of bowling coach rangana herath, snuffing out any hopes of a nz rise to upper echelons of test cricket. england and the aussies duel for the urn and stuart broad taking fourteen australian wickets in one innings with swing bowling gives him the urn in his farewell series
south africa and india meet in jo'burg where the retiring big vern leaves on a high, and passes the world's best bowler torch to none other than mitch santner, who rose from the dead after that sri lanka tour to ruin india's chances of reclaiming the mace in late 2021. australia journey to the desert and lose a one off to afghanistan and the series to pakistan, but return to sri lanka and bury their demons in a two test series. their summer is a showdown against the west indies which they win, which extends the lead on the mace they nearly lost to england. south africa then finish their summer by pounding bangladesh, who draw a two test series with pakistan.
2022 starts with a west indian upset in new zealand before marching on to early summer series between england and india, and pak and sri lanka - both of those are comfortably won by the home teams, which fillets any hope india had of taking the mace but puts england right up in contention for the gong. australia take the kiwis in their early summer and south africa take afghanistan, zimbabwe, and draw with pak in the uae to put themselves in contention. england lose their late summer series to pakistan which knocks them out of contention for first
south africa and australia meet in the sydney sun for a decider in the currently one all four test series - they drew in perth - and needing an ace to take the mace they recall paul adams from his failing financial consulting start up to play the role of second spinner. he takes a double hat trick that includes the elder statesmen smith missing a half tracker that shoots low, which leads the australian media to claim india doctored pitches to behave unnaturally. adams and the south africans ride of in to the sunset as india win a long return series against england which leaves us with
SA
Aus
Ind
Eng
Pak
NZ
SL
WI
Ban
Afg
Zim
i can not wait for how wrong this will be
