India is not being given the credit it deserves in the Tests. They have won everything after SL loss and they have won against Australia without dropping a Test and England, the supposed romantics of the game and the custodian of the game.
I am not a fan of rankings which sees sea change in the positions over the results.
For example SL has won 60 tests and lost 69 tests.
22 of this tests are against BD and Zim.
Whopping 12 against BD.
England, besides winning Ashes this year against a transtioning Australia hasn't won anything. SL keep winning at home and losing abroad.
Few blogs, I have read that the Indians are the # 1 by default or some formula. Whatever it is, the results show up in their favor. The form shows up, the wins show up. Take out Bucknor out of Sydney 2004 and 2008, India wins both of them which denied them 2 series wins in Australia.
Unfortunately we dont have a system in place which counts what ifs in the game for all those poor umpiring decisions which have gone against India this decade. Had that not been the case, India would have won even more games than they have.
