Test nations with the best win percentage

[ethan hunt]

Australia head and shoulders above everyone.
Srilanka have carved out a fairly good test record with Murali and co.
England with over a 1000 test matches.

 

[szrana007]

India's win % will keep improving though. Pakistan's win % is going south, so you can expect India to surpass Pakistan in terms of W/L ratio in the next decade.

 

[szrana007]

West Indies's win percentage used to be around the 40 % mark till 1995. Look at their win % now, its even below Pakistan. What a sad decline.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

West Indies's win percentage used to be around the 40 % mark till 1995. Look at their win % now, its even below Pakistan. What a sad decline.

Pakistan's win percentage used to be much higher, if I recall correctly. But they are themselves to blame mostly.

Poor domestic structure, shambolic PCB, match fixing, poor selection, poor match strategies, player revolts, cheating etc - are all internal issues for which they themselves are responsible.

The only outside factor is the security issues in Pakistan which forced them to play outside Pakistan for a decade. This has been a big factor behind their form decline and for that, they are blameless.

 

[Mamoon]

Pakistan's win percentage used to be much higher, if I recall correctly. But they are themselves to blame mostly.

Poor domestic structure, shambolic PCB, match fixing, poor selection, poor match strategies, player revolts, cheating etc - are all internal issues for which they themselves are responsible.

The only outside factor is the security issues in Pakistan which forced them to play outside Pakistan for a decade. This has been a big factor behind their form decline and for that, they are blameless.

Pakistan became the #1 Test team in 2016 because of playing on UAE pitches. Our form decline in Test cricket over the last 4 years is down to regression in quality of players coming through, not because of playing in UAE.

Pakistan have not been able to replace Younis. Babar has stepped in for Misbah but he is yet to reach Younis level in Test cricket and score big hundreds and double-hundreds.

That has been the major factor in the last few years. With prime Younis, Pakistan would not have lost to Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the UAE in 2017-18.

As far as away record is concerned, we always get smashed in Australia and we have also been losing in South Africa for a very long time, long before we stopped playing at home.

We used to win in New Zealand but that New Zealand team was nothing like the one today. This is their greatest side ever, and would beat most Pakistani teams in history in home conditions.

In England, we have actually been more competitive in the UAE era than we were in the 2000s. We dominated them in the 90s because our team was better than their side.

Not playing at home for 10 years has had no impact on our Test cricket results. In fact, I would argue that had we stayed in Pakistan, we wouldn’t have reached #1 rank because Pakistani pitches offer more assistance to fast bowlers, and teams like Australia, England, South Africa and New Zealand will enjoy Pakistani conditions more than UAE.

 

[Heisenberg111]

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Australia head and shoulders above everyone.
Srilanka have carved out a fairly good test record with Murali and co.
England with over a 1000 test matches.

I think, you should post win percentages excluding matches against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka have won alot of matches against BD and Zim. I am sure if you exclude matches against these two teams, India will be ahead of SRL in win percentage.

 

[King_Kohli]

Soon we will reach to 4th spot.

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Soon we will reach to 4th spot.

You’ll approximately need to win your next 22 Tests consecutively and Pakistan to win only 6 of its next 20 Tests (a lot of these are in Asian conditions).

I’d say maybe 3 years before India overtakes us?

 

[King_Kohli]

You’ll approximately need to win your next 22 Tests consecutively and Pakistan to win only 6 of its next 20 Tests (a lot of these are in Asian conditions).

I’d say maybe 3 years before India overtakes us?

okay then we will achieve this before Kohli retires.

 

[Ab Fan]

My ranking:-

Aus
SA
Ind
Pak
WI
Eng
SL
NZ

 

[Bhaijaan]

You’ll approximately need to win your next 22 Tests consecutively and Pakistan to win only 6 of its next 20 Tests (a lot of these are in Asian conditions).

I’d say maybe 3 years before India overtakes us?

It would take a decade going by current status.

 

[Titan24]

Some interesting numbers there.

 

[Napa]

okay then we will achieve this before Kohli retires.

Given that India has gone 4-9 in away tours in SA, ENG, NZ and AU under Kohli's captaincy, we will probably get there faster if Rahane became captain.

Kohli remains India's best batsman, but he is not a good captain.

 

[ElRaja]

Pakistan's win percentage used to be much higher, if I recall correctly. But they are themselves to blame mostly.

80s and 90s pak win ratio was around 43%, but overall paks win ratio has always hovered around low 30s mark.

biggest difference tho is that whilst pak used to draw a lot of games historically, now it loses a lot more.

pak lost more tests in the 160 tests it played from 2000 to 2020 then it had done in about 250 tests from 50s to 2000 i think.

 

[MMHS]

I think, you should post win percentages excluding matches against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka have won alot of matches against BD and Zim. I am sure if you exclude matches against these two teams, India will be ahead of SRL in win percentage.

It shouldn’t be used like that - England & Australia has won lots of games against SAF & NZ in early years as well and those were some of the most one sided games.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Don't these stats also include pre 1947 stats when India and Pakistan were one?

I could be wrong.. Just asking.

 

[MMHS]

Don't these stats also include pre 1947 stats when India and Pakistan were one?

I could be wrong.. Just asking.

Then BDs stats will include PAK’s stats and all 5 south Asian teams can share Poms stats.... in fact, Aussies got out of British monarchy probably in 1931, before that .....

Overall, it’s a good table to track over the years. From that table, I think most impressive record is SAF - they got a real hammering from only two other countries playing for their first 50+ years (they didn’t play non white teams) and way ahead of them - still, they have recovered significant grounds, partially true for WIN as well.

Worst probably PAK - never was a poor team to be swept a side till this (last decade), even in 1950s, first decade the Win % was probably better than average standing now because of the land slide downfall in last 10-12 years.

 

[NishanKonar]

Then BDs stats will include PAK’s stats and all 5 south Asian teams can share Poms stats.... in fact, Aussies got out of British monarchy probably in 1931, before that .....

Overall, it’s a good table to track over the years. From that table, I think most impressive record is SAF - they got a real hammering from only two other countries playing for their first 50+ years (they didn’t play non white teams) and way ahead of them - still, they have recovered significant grounds, partially true for WIN as well.

Worst probably PAK - never was a poor team to be swept a side till this (last decade), even in 1950s, first decade the Win % was probably better than average standing now because of the land slide downfall in last 10-12 years.

Pakistan started off well in the 50s but had a horror runs in the 60s when they barely won anything even at home

 

[MMHS]

Pakistan started off well in the 50s but had a horror runs in the 60s when they barely won anything even at home

True, but weighted-average impact will be very low as they played very few games. 2010-20 were the period when PAK was washed out. It’s well n percentage, means even draws will be counter productive.

 

[GenericBrand]

Surprised about Zim, I thought they would have a lot more wins pre-exodus, especially with the Flower brothers.

 

[szrana007]

Pakistan's win percentage used to be much higher, if I recall correctly. But they are themselves to blame mostly.

Poor domestic structure, shambolic PCB, match fixing, poor selection, poor match strategies, player revolts, cheating etc - are all internal issues for which they themselves are responsible.

The only outside factor is the security issues in Pakistan which forced them to play outside Pakistan for a decade. This has been a big factor behind their form decline and for that, they are blameless.

Pakistan's win percentage hasn't changed much, even in the 90's it used to be around 32-33 % mark. Its 31.87 % now, so not much of a difference.

 

[Heisenberg111]

It shouldn’t be used like that - England & Australia has won lots of games against SAF & NZ in early years as well and those were some of the most one sided games.

You are right, but 30 out of Sri Lanka's 92 wins in test cricket have come against BD and Zim. If you take them out SRL's win percentage falls from 31.62 % to 24.7 % . Thats quite a large drop.

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

Overall as a cricketing nation, Pakistan > India till 2007. It just shows up in most of these comparison stats.

 

[MenInG]

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[James]

England thought ours would be worse than that.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

England thought ours would be worse than that.

I think England will always have an advantage of starting early. England won loads of games back when Pakistan, India, New Zealand, etc were not at their best when they started. The only time I remember Egland being good was between 2010-2013 when Strauss, KP, Cook, Anderson, Swann were playing together. Even then they were thumped into submission by an average Pakistan side. Tells you everything about English cricket. These days English test cricket is laughable and I feel test cricket will be dead in England this decade.

 

[sweep_shot]

Wow! New Zealand have a pretty poor overall record. I thought it was better than this.

 

[ElRaja]

thanks to a good series against SA and a bit of minnow bashing paks win % has improved by a percent to 32.87.

if pak win 5 of their next 9 tests paks win ratio will be exactly a third.

 

[wrongun]

Wow! New Zealand have a pretty poor overall record. I thought it was better than this.

NZ started playing Test cricket in the 1930s and didn't become at all competitive until the 1970s, and then 80s began to improve.

SL & BD have improved much quicker by comparison.

 

[Buffet]

NZ started playing Test cricket in the 1930s and didn't become at all competitive until the 1970s, and then 80s began to improve.

SL & BD have improved much quicker by comparison.

Exactly for his reason, I ignore the older era record of Eng. It's not very meaningful.

Here is Eng W/L since 1970's compared to other major teams. Lost as much as won.

SA - 1.8
Aus - 1.7
Ind - 1.2
Pak - 1.1
Eng - 1
..
..
..

Removing BD and Zim to see how well Eng did since 1970's compared all other teams,

Aus - 1.7
SA - 1.5
Ind - 1
Pak - 0.9
Eng - 0.9

Eng have lost more than they have won in 50+ years when you remove minnows.

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/e...1970;spanval1=span;template=results;type=team

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/e...1970;spanval1=span;template=results;type=team

 

[Ab Fan]

Exactly for his reason, I ignore the older era record of Eng. It's not very meaningful.

Here is Eng W/L since 1970's compared to other major teams. Lost as much as won.

SA - 1.8
Aus - 1.7
Ind - 1.2
Pak - 1.1
Eng - 1
..
..
..

Removing BD and Zim to see how well Eng did since 1970's compared all other teams,

Aus - 1.7
SA - 1.5
Ind - 1
Pak - 0.9
Eng - 0.9

Eng have lost more than they have won in 50+ years when you remove minnows.

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/e...1970;spanval1=span;template=results;type=team

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/e...1970;spanval1=span;template=results;type=team

Sums up why England don't have any ATG after Botham. Anderson is the only close contender.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Can OP update the rankings?

 

[Msd_7]

Win % at Home Tests (Last 10yrs)

- 80.95%
- 70.83%
- 66.66%
- 63.41%
- 58.20%
- 50.00%
- 44.44%
🏝 - 40.00%
- 30.00%

 

[Mamoon]

Australia’s home percentage was dented by India winning two series in 2018 & 2021. Simply the greatest Asian Test team of all time.

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

AUS would have been on top if not fro those freak series wins last 2 times by us

 

[BreadPakoda]

The only outside factor is the security issues in Pakistan which forced them to play outside Pakistan for a decade. This has been a big factor behind their form decline and for that, they are blameless.

Fair to say this theory has been debunked now.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

Fair to say this theory has been debunked now.

How so? Since when have Pakistan started playing home series and how many have have they played?

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Fair to say this theory has been debunked now.

Yeah after 2 series lol?

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

Fair to say this theory has been debunked now.

Actually Pakistani did better in UAE and even now UAE will be better for them.

The home pitch excuse has been totally demolished.

 

[BreadPakoda]

Actually Pakistani did better in UAE and even now UAE will be better for them.

The home pitch excuse has been totally demolished.

Exactly!

 

[Msd_7]

Highest Win% as Captain in Home Tests
(min 25 Tests)

77.41% - Virat Kohli
75.86% - Steve Waugh
74.35% - Ricky Ponting
70.00% - MS Dhoni

#ViratKohli | #TeamIndia

 

[MP2011]

AUS would have been on top if not fro those freak series wins last 2 times by us

Had it been just 1 series, you could have termed it as freak win. But if it happened twice and that too consecutively, it can't be freak.

 

[jeetu]

Test performance of team excluding matches played against Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Ireland and Zimbabwe.

All Time
[table=class: grid, align: center]
[tr][td]Team [/td][td]Span [/td][td]Mat [/td][td]Won [/td][td]Lost [/td][td]Tied [/td][td]Draw [/td][td]W/L [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Australia [/td][td]1877-2022 [/td][td]836 [/td][td]393 [/td][td]226 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]215 [/td][td]1.738 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]England [/td][td]1877-2022 [/td][td]1039 [/td][td]372 [/td][td]316 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]351 [/td][td]1.177 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]South Africa [/td][td]1889-2022 [/td][td]432 [/td][td]155 [/td][td]156 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]121 [/td][td]0.993 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Pakistan [/td][td]1952-2022 [/td][td]414 [/td][td]121 [/td][td]134 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]159 [/td][td]0.902 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]India [/td][td]1932-2022 [/td][td]540 [/td][td]151 [/td][td]172 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]216 [/td][td]0.877 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]West Indies [/td][td]1928-2022 [/td][td]535 [/td][td]159 [/td][td]201 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]174 [/td][td]0.791 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sri Lanka [/td][td]1982-2022 [/td][td]263 [/td][td]66 [/td][td]116 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]81 [/td][td]0.568 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]New Zealand [/td][td]1930-2022 [/td][td]424 [/td][td]85 [/td][td]180 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]159 [/td][td]0.472 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bangladesh [/td][td]2000-2022 [/td][td]115 [/td][td]8 [/td][td]92 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]15 [/td][td]0.086 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zimbabwe [/td][td]1992-2021 [/td][td]95 [/td][td]5 [/td][td]65 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]25 [/td][td]0.076 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ICC World XI [/td][td]2005-2005 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Afghanistan [/td][td]2018-2019 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ireland [/td][td]2018-2019 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[/table]


Since 70's
[table=class: grid, align: center]
[tr][td]Team [/td][td]Span [/td][td]Mat [/td][td]Won [/td][td]Lost [/td][td]Tied [/td][td]Draw [/td][td]W/L [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Australia [/td][td]1970-2022 [/td][td]522 [/td][td]248 [/td][td]143 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]130 [/td][td]1.734 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]South Africa [/td][td]1970-2022 [/td][td]264 [/td][td]121 [/td][td]79 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]64 [/td][td]1.531 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]India [/td][td]1971-2022 [/td][td]424 [/td][td]136 [/td][td]123 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]164 [/td][td]1.105 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]England [/td][td]1970-2022 [/td][td]581 [/td][td]195 [/td][td]198 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]188 [/td][td]0.984 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Pakistan [/td][td]1971-2022 [/td][td]355 [/td][td]111 [/td][td]117 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]127 [/td][td]0.948 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]West Indies [/td][td]1971-2022 [/td][td]407 [/td][td]116 [/td][td]159 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]132 [/td][td]0.729 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]New Zealand [/td][td]1971-2022 [/td][td]329 [/td][td]78 [/td][td]135 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]116 [/td][td]0.577 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sri Lanka [/td][td]1982-2022 [/td][td]263 [/td][td]66 [/td][td]116 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]81 [/td][td]0.568 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bangladesh [/td][td]2000-2022 [/td][td]115 [/td][td]8 [/td][td]92 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]15 [/td][td]0.086 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zimbabwe [/td][td]1992-2021 [/td][td]95 [/td][td]5 [/td][td]65 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]25 [/td][td]0.076 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ICC World XI [/td][td]2005-2005 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Afghanistan [/td][td]2018-2019 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ireland [/td][td]2018-2019 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[/table]

Since 90's
[table=class: grid, align: center]
[tr][td]Team [/td][td]Span [/td][td]Mat [/td][td]Won [/td][td]Lost [/td][td]Tied [/td][td]Draw [/td][td]W/L [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Australia [/td][td]1990-2022 [/td][td]342 [/td][td]191 [/td][td]83 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]68 [/td][td]2.301 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]South Africa [/td][td]1992-2022 [/td][td]260 [/td][td]117 [/td][td]79 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]64 [/td][td]1.481 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]India [/td][td]1990-2022 [/td][td]279 [/td][td]108 [/td][td]83 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]88 [/td][td]1.301 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]England [/td][td]1990-2022 [/td][td]382 [/td][td]142 [/td][td]138 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]102 [/td][td]1.028 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Pakistan [/td][td]1990-2022 [/td][td]229 [/td][td]79 [/td][td]93 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]57 [/td][td]0.849 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sri Lanka [/td][td]1990-2022 [/td][td]234 [/td][td]64 [/td][td]100 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]70 [/td][td]0.64 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]New Zealand [/td][td]1990-2022 [/td][td]229 [/td][td]58 [/td][td]101 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]70 [/td][td]0.574 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]West Indies [/td][td]1990-2022 [/td][td]262 [/td][td]55 [/td][td]136 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]71 [/td][td]0.404 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bangladesh [/td][td]2000-2022 [/td][td]115 [/td][td]8 [/td][td]92 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]15 [/td][td]0.086 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zimbabwe [/td][td]1992-2021 [/td][td]95 [/td][td]5 [/td][td]65 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]25 [/td][td]0.076 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]ICC World XI [/td][td]2005-2005 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Afghanistan [/td][td]2018-2019 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ireland [/td][td]2018-2019 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
[/table]