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Southern Hemisphere Sports Domination?

27.10.06

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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 UnionRating points
1(1)NEW ZEALAND92.91
2(2)FRANCE87.53
3(3)SOUTH AFRICA87.05
4(4)AUSTRALIA86.13
5(5)IRELAND82.01
6(6)ENGLAND79.66
7(7)SCOTLAND77.72
8(8)ARGENTINA77.49
9(9)WALES76.34
10(10)SAMOA73.86

CRICKET
ODI

LG ICC ODI Championship Table


1
 		Australia 128




2
 		South Africa 123




3
 		New Zealand 114




4
 		Pakistan 111




5
 		India 111




6
 		Sri Lanka 108




7
 		West Indies 106




8
 		England 97




9
 		Bangladesh 34




10
 		Zimbabwe 30




11
 		Kenya 0

TEST MATCH

LG ICC Test Championship Table


1 Australia 130




2
 		England 119




3
 		Pakistan 112




4
 		India 111




5
 		Sri Lanka 103




6
 		South Africa 94




7
 		New Zealand 92




8
 		West Indies 72




9
 		Zimbabwe 28




10
 		Bangladesh 2

FOOTBALL

Fifa World Football Rankings For October 2006
Rank Team Pts
Oct 06		 +/-Rank
Sep 06		 +/-Pts
Sep 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

NETBALL
1 New Zealand
2 Australia
3 Jamaica
4 England
5 South Africa
6 Samoa
7 Barbados
8 Fiji
9 USA
10 Trinidad & Tobago

HOCKEY
Women
1. Netherlands
2.Australia
3.Argentina
4.Germany
5.China
6.Japan
7.Spain
8.New Zealand
9.Korea
10.USA

Men
1.Germany
2.Australia
3.Spain
4.Netherlands
5.Pakistan
6.Korea
7.India
8.Argentina
9.England
10.New Zealand
11.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:

Rugby
4 out of the top 10, 3 of those in the top 4.
That pretty good.

Cricket
One 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.

Football
2 in the top 10, 2 of those in the top 3.
Thats not so good.

Hockey
5 out of the top 10, 2 of those in top 2.
Thats pretty damn good

Netball
Men: 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
http://www.smashleftwingscum.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
New Zealand

South Africa

Brazil
http://www.colorfotos.com.br/brasil/flag/xflag.htm
Without these four countries, we would have no teams in any of the rankings in the top 5.

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posted by Nic, 6:18 PM

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hey nice work for getting the stories in on time, u were a little bored after that, no? hope ur having a grand old riot at "the hat".
byeeeee
Blogger Jennifer Wynne, 12:01 AM  
Do you mean the SH ... or Australia? cause the way I see it those damn aussies are fed you-are-master-of-all-sport hormones or something :( *nurses my deflated South African ego*
Blogger Thinker of Arb, 11:18 AM  
Ja well, its kinda tough to live in the SH when it is dominated by those Aussies, but I guess we gotta be thankfult they're on our side of the globe!
Blogger Nic, 3:22 PM  
Think about it .. if they were on the NH we'd have even more reason to hate em buggers! :/
Blogger Thinker of Arb, 8:31 AM  
Yes, But then all SH teams would blow.
Blogger Nic, 8:33 AM  
True. Atleast then we'd have some camaraderie and be united in our common inabillity to well ... play sport .. now we just hate one of our own :(
Blogger Thinker of Arb, 10:20 AM