{"id":6841,"date":"2026-07-12T02:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:40:21","slug":"india-loses-t20-no-1-spot-england-clinches-series-and-tops-icc-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/?p=6841","title":{"rendered":"India Loses T20 No. 1 Spot; England Clinches Series and Tops ICC Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India Loses T20 No. 1 Spot; England Clinches Series and Tops ICC Rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dwarka News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor-in-Chief: Vikram Singh Tomar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Team India lost the series following a 56-run defeat in the fifth T20 match; the loss marks a significant blow to their rankings after suffering a second consecutive bilateral T20 series defeat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sports Desk | July 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: Saturday brought a major setback for the Indian cricket team. England defeated India by 56 runs in the fifth and final T20 match, thereby clinching the five-match series. With this defeat, Team India lost its No. 1 spot in the ICC T20 International team rankings, while England ascended to the top. Under Shreyas Iyer&#8217;s captaincy, India has now faced T20 series defeats against both Ireland and England. Losing two consecutive series has raised questions about the team&#8217;s performance, and the Indian squad now faces a major challenge to make a comeback.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6842\" src=\"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/englandnewnumberone-1783793969577_m-1-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/englandnewnumberone-1783793969577_m-1-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/englandnewnumberone-1783793969577_m-1.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Loses T20 No. 1 Spot; England Clinches Series and Tops ICC Rankings &nbsp; Dwarka News &nbsp; Editor-in-Chief: Vikram Singh Tomar &nbsp; Team India lost the series following a 56-run defeat in the fifth T20 match; the loss marks a significant blow to their rankings after suffering a second consecutive bilateral T20 series defeat. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-16","category-9"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions\/6844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}