Chatting to a mate of mine about sports while watching the Proteas whop Pakistan today, we decided that it's pretty sweet to live in the Southern Hemisphere. We both decided that the Southern Hemisphere (SH) dominates the world of sports in many areas.I decided that I should do some research in to this, and guess what I found? I found a lot of tables by alot of sources, took me a few minutes to find some reliable ranking pages but it has been done. Below you will see the tables for Rugby, Football, Hockey, Cricket and Netball.RED teams are Southern Hemisphere
RUGBY
IRB World Rankings 23/10/2006
| Position(last week) |
Member Union |
Rating points |
| 1(1) |
NEW ZEALAND |
92.91 |
| 2(2) |
FRANCE |
87.53 |
| 3(3) |
SOUTH AFRICA |
87.05 |
| 4(4) |
AUSTRALIA |
86.13 |
| 5(5) |
IRELAND |
82.01 |
| 6(6) |
ENGLAND |
79.66 |
| 7(7) |
SCOTLAND |
77.72 |
| 8(8) |
ARGENTINA |
77.49 |
| 9(9) |
WALES |
76.34 |
| 10(10) |
SAMOA |
73.86 |
CRICKETODI
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1 |
Australia |
128 |
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2 |
South Africa |
123 |
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3 |
New Zealand |
114 |
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4 |
Pakistan |
111 |
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5 |
India |
111 |
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6 |
Sri Lanka |
108 |
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7 |
West Indies |
106 |
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8 |
England |
97 |
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9 |
Bangladesh |
34 |
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10 |
Zimbabwe |
30 |
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11 |
Kenya |
0 |
TEST MATCH
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1 |
Australia |
130 |
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2 |
England |
119 |
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3 |
Pakistan |
112 |
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4 |
India |
111 |
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5 |
Sri Lanka |
103 |
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6 |
South Africa |
94 |
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7 |
New Zealand |
92 |
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8 |
West Indies |
72 |
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9 |
Zimbabwe |
28 |
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10 |
Bangladesh |
2 |
FOOTBALL
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Fifa World Football Rankings For October 2006
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| Rank |
Team |
PtsOct 06 |
+/-RankSep 06 |
+/-PtsSep 06 |
| 1 |
Brazil |
1649 |
0 |
19 |
| 2 |
Italy |
1550 |
0 |
0 |
| 3 |
Argentina |
1479 |
0 |
7 |
| 4 |
France |
1462 |
0 |
0 |
| 5 |
England |
1434 |
0 |
0 |
| 6 |
Netherlands |
1322 |
0 |
0 |
| 7 |
Spain |
1309 |
0 |
0 |
| 8 |
Portugal |
1301 |
0 |
0 |
| 9 |
Germany |
1229 |
0 |
0 |
| 10 |
Czech R |
1223 |
0 |
0 |
NETBALL1 New Zealand2 Australia3 Jamaica4 England5 South Africa6 Samoa7 Barbados8 Fiji9 USA10 Trinidad & TobagoHOCKEYWomen1. Netherlands2.Australia3.Argentina4.Germany5.China6.Japan7.Spain8.New Zealand9.Korea10.USAMen1.Germany2.Australia3.Spain4.Netherlands5.Pakistan6.Korea7.India8.Argentina9.England10.New Zealand11.South Africa
So there they are... and I think I was wrong... SH is not the place to be in terms of sports. We (when I say we I include all nations, continents and states in the SH for a full list visit Wikipedia) need to do some work, hit the streets, crack the gyms, pump the iron and inject... no wait, thats illegal!!From the top:Rugby4 out of the top 10, 3 of those in the top 4.That pretty good. CricketOne Day Internationals: 5 out of the top 10, 3 of those in the top 3.Test Matches: 4 out of the top 10, 1 in the top position.Thats awesome, Cricket we definately dominate.Football2 in the top 10, 2 of those in the top 3.Thats not so good.Hockey5 out of the top 10, 2 of those in top 2. Thats pretty damn goodNetballMen: 4 out of top 10.Women: 3 out of top 10.Hockey Not So Good.So on average: We are dominated in 3 out of the above 5 sports. we only dominate in 2, Hockey and Cricket and that is merely because we have teams in the top 3.I think that in terms of the above sports there are a few countries that we all need to thank as SH inhabitants:Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Brazil
Without these four countries, we would have no teams in any of the rankings in the top 5.
