South Africa have rewritten history of Limited Overs International cricket. Their 6-1 win over West Indies has now taken them to the top of the table of LOI cricket. For the first time ever, West Indies have been dislodged from the top position since the number of LOI matches grew to a sizeable proportion. Thus, Hansie Cronje's team has taken their team to a historic high.

West Indies have traditionally dominated both forms of international cricket for so many years, and although their position at the top has been challenged in recent years, they managed to retain the number one position in LOI cricket until their last defeat which gave South Africa the rubber 6-1.

The following table shows the positions of all teams in all the 1404 LOI matches played to date, ordered by the success percentage. As it is the usual practice, abandoned matches have not been taken into consideration for the purpose of calculating the success percentage.

Results Summary for all teams in all 1404 LOI matches to date

Team                    Matches  Won  Lost  NR   Td   Success %
South Africa             157      98   56    3    0   63.63
West Indies              360     222  128    6    4   63.27
Australia                416     227  175   11    3   56.41
Pakistan                 414     210  189   10    5   52.60
England                  290     147  133    8    2   52.48
India                    387     174  193   17    3   47.43
New Zealand              316     129  170   13    4   43.23
Sri Lanka                293     109  170   13    1   39.10
Kenya                     20       5   14    1    0   26.32
Zimbabwe                 112      26   80    2    4   25.45
United Arab Emirates       7       1    6    0    0   14.29
Bangladesh                25       1   24    0    0    4.00
Holland                    5       0    5    0    0    0.00
East Africa                3       0    3    0    0    0.00
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Contributed by : Atul Kahate (AKahate@yahoo.com)