'Mazak hai kya' - Fans troll Cricket's Governing body after India replaces Australia as top-ranked Test team' just for few hours'

The four-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is underway as Delhi will host the second Test from Friday, the 17^th of February. Prior to that, the hosts are leading the four-match series by a margin of 1-0. Meanwhile, interesting hanging stuff in the international Test rankings by the cricket’s governing body has drawn a lot of mixed reactions from cricket fans.

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On Wednesday, the Test ranking went through a ‘sea-saw’ moment between India and Australia as the former overtook the Kangaroos to become the number one Test team. But within a time of only 5.5 hours, Australia became the number one Test team again overtaking India.

This up and down didn’t go down well with a lot of cricket fans and they immediately took to Twitter to come up with some furious and interesting reactions as well. Subsequently, the fans also mocked the cricket’s governing body for this misfunctioning in the rankings.

Here’s how fans reacted:

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Mazak hai kya? pic.twitter.com/RrBcB7vvBV

— Arun Singh (@ArunTuThikHoGya) February 15, 2023

But how they changed without any match/ results

— MK Rathore (@Mukka250276) February 15, 2023

Meanwhile Fox Cricket: India tried to snatch the test ranking away from Australia, but ICC intervened and returned it to rightful owners

— Venkata Pavan Kumar (@Venkatapavanvpk) February 15, 2023

Many called No. 1 ranking a glitch in morning only.

— Vihan B 🐾 🚩 🇮🇳 (@b_vihan) February 15, 2023

ICC fruad

— Purva Kadam (@Kohlifitoor) February 15, 2023

Indian fans : pic.twitter.com/faSOR4fazQ

— Suryabhan Singh Vaghela (@suryabhansv) February 15, 2023

its happened earlier before in ODI ranking
then, its changed into permanent 😉

— Ranjith Ragul  (@ranjithragul78) February 15, 2023

It happens before as well in India tour of Bangladesh test series. ICC should hire some Indian mathematician to make these things count correctly..... Rankings becoming jokes now....

— Naveen Sharma (@iamnaveenn100) February 15, 2023

4-0 k baad firse India no. 1 hoga.

— Yashdip Does Cricket 🏏 (@YASHDIPRAUT) February 15, 2023

Why they made Team India No. 1 for just 6 hrs.???

Let Chetan talk to ICC from his drawing room and he will settle it once and for all.

— Kashif Syed (@kashif55524751) February 15, 2023

ICC changed that after seeing cringe posts of Rohit fans

— King (@goatkohIi) February 15, 2023

Notably, the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy is very crucial to decide the finalist of the World Test Championship 2021-23 cycle; as India ought to win the series by an optimum margin of either 3-0, 3-1 or 4-0 to secure their berth in the final of the tournament.

Here’s a look at the remaining schedule of the India vs Australia Test series:

Second Test – Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi – Friday, 17^th of February – 21^st of February.

Third Test – Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore – Wednesday, 1^st of March – 5^th of March.

Fourth Test – Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad – Thursday, 9^th of March – 13^th of March.

Speaking from the perspective of the Rohit Sharma-led Indian team, they are going through a conundrum of middle-order batting as Shreyas Iyer is likely to make a comeback in the second Test. Whereas, on the other hand, the Test debutant Suryakumar Yadav couldn’t live up to the expectations in the Nagpur Test against the Aussies.

Apart from that, the veteran batters including the likes of Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli also failed to perform up to their statures in the Test series opener.