Scoreboard ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 It is now more evident after India lost the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy to Australia. The WTC table leaderboard is determined by Percentage System (PCT) points.
South Africa vs Australia at Lord’s
as Australia to secure a historic win in the SCG Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy After 10 years, the two teams that will make it to the finals of the ICC WTC have now been decided. South Africa currently sits at the top of the tournament table with 66,670 points. The Proteas have managed to get 7 wins and 3 draws in their total of 11 matches in the current cycle. The only match the South Africans have lost on the circuit so far was against India in the Freedom Trophy in January 2024. The South African team is currently playing a 2-match test series against Pakistan at home.
The road to the finals for the Aussies has not been as smooth as the Proteas’, but the Australian team has proved its mettle and earned its place the hard way over the course of the cycle. The Australians have managed to face the 2023 Ashes England and vs. Frank Worrell Trophy West India. However, the Australian team cleaned up the points in the Benaud-Qadir Trophy to gain important points for the WTC era. Pakistan and against the Trans-Tasman Trophy New Zealand. Winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy was crucial for the Australian to reach the WTC final and the former champions did just that by beating India 3-1 in the series. Australia is not playing yet Sri Lanka in the current cycle.
It should be noted that the two finalists, South Africa and Australia, have not played against each other in the current WTC era.
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India ranks third in the current WTC cycle
The Indian team’s steep decline in the longest format of the game is evident not only from their performance in the recent series defeat against Australia, but also from the failure of two-time WTC runners-up India to reach this milestone. reached the finals of the prestigious title and could only take 3rd place in the league table.
India had played all their matches in the current cycle and managed to collect a total of 50 PCT points with 9 wins and 8 losses. A clean sweep against New Zealand and a recent 3-1 defeat in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy hurt India’s prospects of reaching the WTC final the most. The Kiwis lead India in the league table with a PCT score of 48,210, followed by Sri Lanka, England, BangladeshPakistan and West Indies.
The 2025-27 cycle of the Test World Cup will begin this June with England taking on India for a 5-match Test series on home soil.
