Southern Hemisphere Sports Domination?
27.10.06
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
CRICKET
ODI
TEST MATCH
FOOTBALL
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
New Zealand
South Africa
Brazil
Without these four countries, we would have no teams in any of the rankings in the top 5.
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
Position (last week) | Member Union | Rating points |
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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 |
CRICKET
ODI
| | 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
| | 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
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
New Zealand
South Africa
Brazil
Without these four countries, we would have no teams in any of the rankings in the top 5.
Labels: Sport
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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*
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!
Think about it .. if they were on the NH we'd have even more reason to hate em buggers! :/
Yes, But then all SH teams would blow.
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 :(
byeeeee