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the points table ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 It currently seems much clearer after India lost the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy to Australia. WTC table ranking is determined by Percentage System Points (PCT).
Clash between South Africa and Australia in the Lord
As Australia achieved a historic victory in the SCG test to secure the Border-Gavaskar Trophy After 10 years, the two teams for the coveted ICC WTC finals are already decided. South Africa It is currently at the top of the table with 66,670 points. The Proteas managed to add 7 wins and 3 draws in the current cycle with a total of 11 games played. The only match the South Africans lost in the cycle so far was against India in the Freedom Trophy in January 2024. The South African team is currently playing a two-match Test series against Pakistan on home soil.
The road to the final for the Australians has not been as easy as that of the Proteas, but the Australian team proved their worth and earned their place the hard way over the course of the cycle. The Australians managed to draw the 2023 Ashes against England and the Frank Worrell Trophy against the West Indies. However, the Australian team earned important points for the WTC cycle by sweeping the Benaud-Qadir Trophy against Pakistan and Trans-Tasman Trophy against New Zealand. The Australian badly needed to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to reach the WTC final and the former champions did just that by defeating India 3-1 in the series. Australia has not played yet Sri Lanka in the current cycle.
Notably, the two finalists, South Africa and Australia, have not met in the current WTC cycle.
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India achieves third place in the current WTC cycle
The Indian team’s marked decline in the longest format of the game is evident not only from their performance in the recent series loss against Australia but also from the fact that two-time WTC runners-up India failed to reach the finals. of the prestigious title and could only achieve the number 3 position in the league standings.
India had played all their matches in the current cycle and with 9 wins and 8 losses they only managed to score 50 PCT points. A clean sweep against New Zealand and the recent 3-1 defeat in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy hurt India’s prospects of reaching the WTC final the most. The Kiwis are behind India in the league standings with 48,210 PCT points, followed by Sri Lanka, England, BangladeshPakistan and the West Indies.
The 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle will begin in June this year when England take on India in a five-match Test series on home soil.
