ICC ODI Championship

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The ICC ODI Championship is a notional competition run by the International Cricket Council in the sport of cricket for the 10 nations that play Test cricket and Kenya, which has one day international status.

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International Cricket Council - Sport - Cricket - Test cricket

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In essence, after every ODI (One Day International) match, the two teams involved receive points based on a mathematical formula. The total of each team's points total is divided by the total number of matches to give a 'rating', and all eleven teams are ranked by order of rating (this can be shown in a table)

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By analogy to cricket batting averages, the points for winning an ODI match are greater than the team's rating, increasing the rating, and the points for losing an ODI match are always less than the rating, reducing the rating. A drawn match between higher and lower rated teams will benefits the lower-rated team at the expense of the higher-rated team. An 'average' team that wins as often as it loses while playing a mix of stronger and weaker teams should have a rating of 100.

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