The factors desk ICC World Take a look at Championship 2023-25 presently appears to be like quite a bit clearer after India misplaced the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 to Australia. The leaderboard of the WTC desk is decided via Proportion System (PCT) factors.
South Africa vs Australia showdown on the Lord’s
As Australia clinched a historic win within the SCG Take a look at to safe the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after 10 years, the 2 groups for the coveted ICC WTC finals are actually determined. South Africa presently sits on the prime of the desk with 66.670 factors. The Proteas managed to safe 7 wins and three attracts within the present cycle with a complete of 11 matches they’ve performed. The one match the South Africans misplaced within the cycle until now was towards India within the Freedom Trophy again in January 2024. The South African workforce is presently taking part in a 2-match Take a look at sequence towards Pakistan on their dwelling soil.
The street to finals for the Aussies has not been as easy because the Proteas, however the Australian workforce proved their mettle and earned their spot the arduous means throughout the course of the cycle. The Australians managed to attract the 2023 Ashes towards England and the Frank Worrell Trophy towards the West Indies. Nevertheless, the Australian workforce gained necessary factors for the WTC cycle by a clear sweep within the Benaud-Qadir Trophy towards Pakistan and Trans-Tasman Trophy towards New Zealand. The Australian critically wanted to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to achieve the WTC finals and the previous champions managed to just do that by defeating India 3-1 within the sequence. Australia are but to play Sri Lanka within the present cycle.
Notably, the 2 finalists, South Africa and Australia haven’t performed towards one another within the present WTC cycle.
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India will get the third place within the present WTC cycle
The stark decline of the Indian workforce within the longest format of the sport is clear not simply with their efficiency within the current sequence loss towards Australia, but additionally from the truth that India, the two-time WTC runner-up has failed to achieve the finals of the celebrated title and will solely get the No.3 within the league desk.
India had performed all its matches within the present cycle and with 9 wins and eight losses solely managed to garner 50 PCT factors. A clean-sweep towards New Zealand and the current 3-1 defeat within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy had damage the Indian prospects of going to the WTC finals essentially the most. The Kiwis are behind India within the league desk with 48.210 PCT factors adopted by Sri Lanka, England, Bangladesh, Pakistan and West Indies.
The 2025-27 cycle of the World Take a look at Championship is about to start in June this 12 months as England tackle India for a 5-match Take a look at sequence on their dwelling soil.
