{"id":485207,"date":"2026-03-20T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485207\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:11:11","slug":"ipl-misses-top-spot-in-global-t20-league-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485207\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL misses top spot in global T20 league standings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Royal<\/p>\n

Royal Challengers Bengaluru players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Indian Premier League, June 4, 2025. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n

Despite its commercial dominance, the Indian Premier League has slipped behind rivals in the latest global T20 rankings, as The Hundred emerged as the top-ranked tournament.<\/p>\n

The IPL, widely regarded as the most lucrative and high-profile cricket league, ranked third in the latest World Cricketers’ Association (WCA) assessment, formerly Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA).<\/p>\n

The findings suggested that the tournament requires major improvements to secure its place as the top global competition.<\/p>\n

According to the global players’ body, the IPL must enhance its approach to player rights and overall welfare.<\/p>\n

The league’s ranking reflects concerns that, while commercially dominant, it lags behind its rivals in areas concerning player treatment and conditions.<\/p>\n

Leading the standings is England’s newest franchise competition, The Hundred, which secured the top position with a ranking score of 75.2 points.<\/p>\n

It is closely followed by South Africa’s SA20, which earned 68 points to take second place. <\/p>\n

The IPL received 62.6 points, placing it narrowly ahead of Australia’s Big Bash League, which sits fourth with 62.5 points. Pakistan\u2019s PSL follows in fifth with 48 points.<\/p>\n

The remaining places in the top ten feature a range of global tournaments. Major League Cricket occupies sixth, while the ILT20 in the UAE is seventh.<\/p>\n

The Caribbean Premier League ranks eighth, followed by the Abu Dhabi T10 in ninth and the Bangladesh Premier League in tenth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal Challengers Bengaluru players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Indian Premier League, June 4, 2025. \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-485207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}