The official ICC Women’s team rankings for One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals — current ratings, points and matches played, with an explanation of how the rating system actually works.
Australia hold the number one position in both formats, and the margin is not close. A rating of 164 in ODIs puts them 38 points clear of England in second, while their 292 in T20Is is the highest rating any women’s side currently holds in either list. England and India are separated by just two points in ODIs and twelve in T20Is, which means a single series result can swap them.
Further down, the ODI table shows how finely balanced the middle is: Pakistan sit on 73 rating points, with West Indies and Bangladesh tied on 72. In T20I cricket the gap between fifth-placed South Africa and eighth-placed Pakistan is 34 points, a wider spread than the equivalent ODI range. Profiles of the players driving those results are in our player section.
Explore our in-depth player rankings: ICC Women’s ODI Batting Rankings 2026 — where Laura Wolvaardt leads the 50-over charts — and ICC Women’s T20I Batting Rankings 2026 — topped by Beth Mooney. For the bowlers, see our ICC Women’s ODI Bowling Rankings 2026 and ICC Women’s T20I Bowling Rankings 2026 guides, plus the ICC Women’s ODI All-Rounder Rankings 2026 and ICC Women’s T20I All-Rounder Rankings 2026.
All-time records: Most Runs in Women’s ODI History, Most Wickets in Women’s ODI History, Highest Individual Scores in Women’s ODIs, Most Runs in Women’s T20I History, Most Wickets in Women’s T20I History, Highest Individual Scores in Women’s T20Is.
A team’s rating is its total points divided by the number of matches or series played, rounded to the nearest whole number. Points are earned according to the strength of the opposition, so beating a higher-rated side is worth considerably more than beating a weaker one — which is why Australia, on 31 ODIs, hold a far higher rating than a side with 36 to its name.
The system launched on 1 October 2015 and was designed by statistician and ICC Cricket Committee member David Kendix, using the same methodology as the men’s rankings.
The tables run on a rolling window rather than a fixed season. Each annual update on 1 October drops the oldest year of results entirely and reduces the weighting of the next-oldest band to 50 per cent.
A side can therefore gain or lose rating points across a period in which it has not taken the field at all, simply because older results have aged out of the calculation.
In October 2018, after the ICC granted T20 International status to all its members, the women’s rankings were split into two lists: an ODI table for Full Members and Associate Members holding ODI status, and a T20I table covering all eligible members.
There is no standalone ICC women’s Test team ranking. Test cricket is played too rarely in the women’s game — a handful of matches a year across the whole sport — for a rating system built on rolling three-to-four-year windows to produce anything meaningful. Any site showing you a women’s Test rankings table is not reproducing an official ICC list.
Ratings are recalculated after every completed series, so a bilateral tour or a World Cup group stage can move positions within days. The structural annual update, where the oldest results fall out of the calculation, falls on 1 October.
They also carry direct consequences: qualification places for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup have been allocated on the basis of T20I ranking positions at a specified cut-off date. Follow the series that move these numbers on our fixtures page, check outcomes under our results, and read the analysis in our latest stories.