Back to test matches then. With such limited fare on offer, you'll forgive me if I pine for better things, and largely ignore the "contest" such as it is.

Forthcoming matches

2 Tests	England	v	Bangladesh
Pre-rating	1129.25		628.23
Form	+0.51		+21.82
Expected Margin	England by 301 runs

Needing to play every side, England have started opening their season with the lower ranked teams, taking advantage of their own green wickets and their opponents fragile batting. In the absence of anything better to play for, or anything better to take an interest in, the expected margin for this series is 301 runs, or an innings and some for England. Bangladesh might do well to beat even that, particularly with two of their best batsmen under an injury cloud, and no seamers worth the name.

Rankings at 24th May 2010
1.	Australia	1220.63
2.	India	1209.46
3.	South Africa	1187.88
4.	England	1129.25
5.	Sri Lanka	1103.96
6.	Pakistan	1073.90
7.	West Indies	926.27
8.	New Zealand	917.90
9.	Bangladesh	628.23
10.	Zimbabwe	556.79
11.	Ireland	554.16
12.	Scotland	470.23
13.	Namibia	383.95
14.	Afghanistan	359.64
15.	Kenya	353.20
16.	U.S.A.	296.99
17.	Uganda	280.54
18.	Netherlands	220.31
19.	Nepal	179.54
20.	Canada	177.74
21.	U.A.E.	155.26
22.	Hong Kong	147.15
23.	Bermuda	143.18
24.	Cayman Is	134.24
25.	Malaysia	108.49

Shaded teams have played fewer than 2 games per season. Non-test team ratings are not comparable to test ratings as they don't play each other.

Cricket - Ratings - Test 25th May, 2010 01:06:01   [#] 

Comments

Impressive Stuff
There is some serious work gone into this! And I don't imagine your win margin will be too far wrong either. An innings in both tests I reckon. Do you have a page somewhere detailing how you have worked all this out?
Thanks, Bradders
Bradders  27th May, 2010 19:34:23  

Ratings - 24th May 2010
Bradders, there isn't, but there should be now that the methodology is fairly settled. I'll put something together shortly.
Russ  28th May, 2010 13:14:45