International cricket in 2010

The 2010 international cricket season was between May and August 2010. The season included a spot-fixing scandal involving the Pakistan team that resulted in three Pakistani cricketers being banned by the International Cricket Council and given prison sentences.

April

Afghanistan and Ireland qualified via the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier.
Zimbabwe withdrew from the 2009 competition, so failing to achieve a seed or ranking for the 2010 competition.
Ireland reached the Super Eight stage of the 2009 competition, and if a test nation, would have been ranked 8th; hence an 8th seed is missing from the competition

Pos	Team	Status
1st		Promoted to Division Three for 2011
2nd		Promoted to Division Three for 2011
3rd		Remained in Division Four for 2012
4th		Remained in Division Four for 2012
5th		Relegated to Division Five for 2012
6th		Relegated to Division Five for 2012

Jacques Kallis reached 11,000 runs scored in Tests, vs West Indies on 19 June.
Ricky Ponting reached 12,000 runs scored in Tests, vs Pakistan on 22 July.
Muttiah Muralitharan reached 800 wickets taken in Tests, vs India on 22 July.
Sachin Tendulkar reached 14,000 runs scored in Tests vs Australia.
Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to reach 50 Test Centuries in Tests vs South Africa.

Sachin Tendulkar played highest number of Test Matches vs on 26 December.
Mohammad Amir became the youngest player to take 5 wickets in England.
Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad set the highest 8th wicket partnership, 332 runs, in Test history in the 4th
Test Match between England and Pakistan at Lords.