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Bangladesh has been ranked 20th among the football playing nations of Asia by the global football body, as the FIFA World Cup starts in Russia from today.

Whereas in the world, the five top ranking countries in the whole world are Germany, Brazil, Belgium, Portugal and Argentina.

Only five Asian countries – Australia, South Korea, Japan, Iran and Saudi Arabia have qualified to compete for the world’ most coveted trophy in football.

On the global ranking, Australia is the only country from Asia that figures in the top 50. Australian team named Socceroos is ranked 36. The Socceroos are in Group C with France, Peru and Denmark.

South Korea is ranked 57 and is the only Asian country that has qualified nine times for the world cup. It is also the only Asian country to win the most entertaining team award at 2002 FIFA world Cup. Two players from the team were also voted members of the MasterCard All Star Team, the only Asians to be voted in. South Korean team is in Group F with Germany, Sweden and Mexico.

Japan is ranked 67 and will be making its sixth appearance in this year’s World Cup. It is one of the most successful Asian team having qualified for the World Cup for last six consecutive years. It is in Group H with Poland, Senegal and Columbia.

China is ranked 75. The highlight of the football feat in the country has been the year 2002 when the team qualified for the World Cup. India has never participated in the World Cup although the team qualified by default in 1950 when others team in the group withdrew. Currently it is ranked 97

Vietnam is ranked 102 followed by North Korea which is ranked 108.

Despite being one of the oldest teams in Asia that has been playing at international level as early as 1913, Philippines has never qualified for the World Cup. It is ranked 115. Thailand's ‘War Elephants’ as the team is known were eliminated in the third round this year and couldn’t qualify for the World Cup. It is ranked 122.

Myanmar, Maldives and Nepal are ranked 138, 150 and161 respectively.

Indonesia under the name of Dutch East Indies national football qualified for the World Cup in 1938 and since then has never been able to qualify. It is ranked 164 and is followed by Cambodia and Singapore ranked 166 and 169 respectively.

Malaysia’s best standing in FIFA was ranking of 1993 when it was at 75th position. Currently the country is ranked 171 followed by Laos and Bhutan ranked 178 and 183 respectively. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are ranked very low at 194 and 200 respectively.

Pakistan is lowest ranked Asian team in FIFA ranking. It is ranked at 203rd position out of 211 teams in the world rankings.

Bangladesh national cricket team World records
Bangladesh national cricket team Mohammad Ashraful holds the record for the youngest cricketer to make a Test century. He was 17 years and 61 days old when he made 114 against Sri Lanka at Colombo on 8 September 2001, during his Test debut. Mashrafe Mortaza was the leading wicket-taker in ODIs in 2006, with 49 wickets in 27 matches. On 21 November 2012, Abul Hasan became only the second Test cricketer in history to make a century at number 10 on debut, against the West Indies at Khulna. On 13 October 2013, against New Zealand at Chittagong, Sohag Gazi became the first-ever cricketer to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same Test match.[281] Taijul Islam became the first-ever bowler to take a hat-trick on debut in an ODI against Zimbabwe at Dhaka on 1 December 2014. Shakib Al Hasan became the first player in history to hold the number 1 positions in all three formats of cricket, in the all rounder category on 12 January 2015. Mustafizur Rahman became the first-ever cricketer to take 11 wickets in his first two ODIs when he took 5/50 against India on 18 June 2015 and then 6/43 against the same team three days later. Both matches were played at Dhaka. Until 25 July 2015, Elias Sunny was the only player to be nominated as the Man of the match in two formats of the international cricket as a debutant. He made it in Test(v West Indies in 2011) & T20I(v Ireland in 2012).[285][286] Mustafizur Rahman, being only second to Elias Sunny, did it in ODI(v India) and in Test(v South Africa) both in 2015. On 7 June 2018 in the 3rd T20I against Afghanistan by taking the wicket of Najibullah Zadran, Shakib Al Hasan became the quickest All-rounder to achieve the double of 10,000 runs and 500 wickets in 302 international matches and became only 3rd cricketer to do so following Jacques Kallis and Shahid Afridi. Highest 1st innings total in Tests when losing the match 595/8 dec vs New Zealand in 2017. Bangladesh has taken 16 years and 12 days—the least amount of time among all 10 Test-playing countries—to reach the landmark figure. Most consecutive Test defeats 21 (2001–2004). Most consecutive Test series defeats 16 (2000/01-2004/05). Most consecutive ODI defeats 23 (1999–2002). Most consecutive ODIs without victory 47 (1999–2003). Only Test side which have lost the first ODI they have played against five non-Test sides (Canada 2003, Kenya 2003, Ireland 2007, Netherlands 2010 and Afghanistan 2014).