West Indies' loss to England in their five-match one-day inter-national (ODI) series on Friday did them no favours as they remained stagnant in eighth spot in the ICC one-day rankings.

The regional side, who went down by 26 runs in the final match in St Lucia to surrender the series 3-2, were still bottom of all the major Test playing nations in the rankings released by cricket's world governing body yesterday.

West Indies have 92 points and are still some distance behind seventh-place Sri Lanka, who have 105 points, as Australia continued to lead the rankings after a comprehensive win over nearest challengers South Africa in the first ODI of their five-match series in Durban on Friday.

Seemingly on course to make a clean sweep of the tour after winning the preceding Test series, West Indies lost the last two matches of the series to give England a morale-boosting victory.