Photo :Captain Brian Nyikuli and Moses Amusala
With the recent good performance at home, Kenya has moved up to 28th in the current world rugby rankings. Simba edged Spain 36-27 on 18th July 2015 at the RFUEA grounds in Nairobi.
Kenya was previously ranked 30th, eleven positions lower than Spain before the test match. Spain who were ranked 19th, dropped to 20th in the World rugby rankings.
Kenya will face Namibia who are ranked 21st away at Windhoek on 8th August 2015 in a Rugby Afrique (Africa Cup) match. This will be Kenya fifteens last match that they will play this year.
The table below shows the current word rugby rankings released by World Rugby today.
Position | Previous | Country | Points |
1 | (1) | New Zealand | 93.70 |
2 | (2) | South Africa | 87.00 |
3 | (3) | Ireland | 85.76 |
4 | (4) | England | 85.40 |
5 | (6) | Australia | 84.18 |
6 | (5) | Wales | 84.07 |
7 | (7) | France | 79.74 |
8 | (8) | Argentina | 78.23 |
9 | (9) | Samoa | 75.91 |
10 | (11) | Fiji | 75.22 |
11 | (10) | Scotland | 74.79 |
12 | (13) | Japan | 74.01 |
13 | (12) | Tonga | 73.46 |
14 | (14) | Georgia | 72.16 |
15 | (15) | Italy | 71.85 |
16 | (16) | USA | 67.09 |
17 | (18) | Romania | 66.73 |
18 | (17) | Canada | 66.52 |
19 | (21) | Uruguay | 62.11 |
20 | (19) | Spain | 61.54 |
21 | (22) | Namibia | 61.28 |
22 | (20) | Russia | 61.10 |
23 | (23) | Chile | 57.34 |
24 | (24) | Hong Kong | 57.31 |
25 | (25) | Korea | 56.70 |
26 | (26) | Belgium | 56.47 |
27 | (27) | Zimbabwe | 56.44 |
28 | (30) | Kenya | 56.17 |
29 | (28) | Portugal | 55.72 |
30 | (29) | Germany | 54.78 |
31 | (31) | Ukraine | 54.07 |
32 | (32) | Moldova | 53.69 |
33 | (33) | Netherlands | 51.86 |
34 | (34) | Czech Republic | 51.07 |
35 | (35) | Paraguay | 50.46 |
36 | (36) | Poland | 49.84 |
37 | (37) | Sri Lanka | 49.79 |
38 | (38) | Switzerland | 49.49 |
39 | (39) | Brazil | 49.26 |
40 | (40) | Tunisia | 49.11 |
41 | (41) | Madagascar | 48.71 |
42 | (42) | Kazakhstan | 48.14 |
43 | (43) | Malta | 48.12 |
44 | (44) | Lithuania | 48.01 |
45 | (45) | Trinidad & Tobago | 47.38 |
46 | (46) | Cook Islands | 47.11 |
47 | (47) | Colombia | 46.37 |
48 | (48) | Uganda | 46.35 |
49 | (49) | Sweden | 46.05 |
50 | (50) | Senegal | 45.96 |
51 | (51) | Cote D'Ivoire | 45.76 |
52 | (52) | Philippines | 45.12 |
53 | (53) | Guyana | 44.88 |
54 | (54) | Croatia | 44.83 |
55 | (55) | Israel | 44.20 |
56 | (56) | Mexico | 43.61 |
57 | (57) | Malaysia | 43.53 |
58 | (58) | Andorra | 43.10 |
59 | (59) | Singapore | 42.92 |
60 | (60) | Cayman Islands | 42.87 |
61 | (61) | Venezuela | 41.65 |
62 | (62) | Latvia | 41.33 |
63 | (63) | Botswana | 40.99 |
64 | (64) | Chinese Taipei | 40.27 |
65 | (65) | Luxembourg | 40.25 |
66 | (66) | Bermuda | 40.03 |
67 | (67) | China | 39.58 |
68 | (68) | Hungary | 39.21 |
69 | (69) | Peru | 38.84 |
70 | (70) | Slovenia | 38.80 |
71 | (71) | Guam | 38.11 |
72 | (72) | Thailand | 37.46 |
73 | (73) | Barbados | 37.39 |
74 | (74) | India | 37.12 |
75 | (75) | Nigeria | 37.03 |
76 | (76) | Jamaica | 36.99 |
77 | (77) | St Vincent and the Grenadines | 36.84 |
78 | (78) | Serbia | 36.82 |
79 | (79) | Pakistan | 36.74 |
80 | (80) | Zambia | 35.80 |
81 | (81) | Denmark | 35.73 |
82 | (82) | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 35.43 |
83 | (83) | Austria | 35.00 |
84 | (84) | United Arab Emirates | 34.92 |
85 | (85) | Bahamas | 34.55 |
86 | (86) | Uzbekistan | 33.89 |
87 | (87) | Mauritius | 33.86 |
88 | (88) | Norway | 32.78 |
89 | (89) | Swaziland | 32.04 |
90 | (90) | Bulgaria | 31.98 |
91 | (91) | Finland | 29.89 |
92 | (92) | Indonesia | 28.73 |
93 | (93) | Greece | 28.55 |
94 | (94) | Morocco | 25.59 |
95 | (95) | Papua New Guinea | 22.63 |
96 | (96) | Niue Island | 20.22 |
97 | (97) | Solomon Islands | 20.18 |
98 | (98) | Cameroon | 19.16 |
99 | (99) | Tahiti | 17.69 |
100 | (100) | Monaco | 17.59 |
101 | (101) | Vanuatu | 16.73 |
102 | (102) | American Samoa | 15.00 |